Hospital Bill

This beautiful tree is located in the Portland Japanese Garden. We’re headed to Portland today to deliver a puppy, then lunch with David and Lesley, home inspection on the way home and stop off to see Amanda at PLU.
A few weeks ago, Amanda had surgery to remove a benign ganglion cyst on the bottom [...]

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T.R. Reid on KCTS

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Waiting for Care

One of the objections that conservatives often raise when asked to consider health care in other countries is the perceived waiting period.  My foreign friends (in Canada, Denmark, Great Britain and Czech Republic), however, have disputed the commonly held American perception that health care in other countries involves long waiting lines.  My own experience in [...]

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Sick Around the World

Quality affordable health care is as vital to the economic security of our nation as it is to each of us as individuals.  To educate yourself about health care reform, please watch Frontline’s excellent documentary on health care around the world:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/
listen to this story on NPR
read T.R. Reid’s “The Healing of America”
and read my own [...]

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Health Care Around the World: Cost vs Results

This morning I went to the WHO web site to compare health care statistics around the world. I chose to look at health care stats in countries where I have “beagle friends” (and I want to say thank you to my friends in Canada and Czech who have commented on my previous post). Conservatives in [...]

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My Thoughts on Health Care Reform

Change is scary. As someone who has experienced a great deal of change in her life over the last three years, this is a fact that I know as well as anyone. There’s a great deal of debate going on in the United States these days about health care reform….reform that is long overdue. For [...]

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