By Tim, on March 9th, 2010
We are coming down to the wire on the issue of whether or not our country is going to adopt some form of national health-care for most of, if not all, its citizens. A lot of nonsense and outright false information has been cast about during the long debates and arguments which have brought us to this point.
Some of the debates, and much of the misinformation, have been about how the US system of health-care delivery compares to systems used in other countries; particularly those which are modern industrialized democracies like our own. In August of last Summer an article published in The Washington Post did a good job of exploding many of the myths about health-care delivery in countries similar to ours. I did not see the article when it first came out and I’m sure many others did not either. So I’m sharing it here in its entirety.
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By Tim, on January 29th, 2010
National Federation of the Blind Applauds Measure To Ensure Blind People Equal Access to Technology
Washington, DC (January 27, 2010): Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) today introduced the Technology Bill of Rights for the Blind (H.R. 4533), which will mandate that all consumer electronics, home appliances, kiosks, and electronic office technology provide user interfaces that are accessible to the blind.
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By Tim, on January 28th, 2010
Clinton Turned Right in ’96 Speech, While Obama Plowed Ahead — NYTimes.com
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Sometimes, when I’m searching for the right words to express all my feelings about the current state of affairs, I get slapped in the head with something written by someone else who does it much better than I would have.
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