Archive for November 25th, 2008
Health-care options
Devon Herrick says this in a Modesto Bee op-ed piece about health-care reform:
The best reform would liberate doctors to meet patient needs in innovative ways, free patients to become smart shoppers, and allow a competitive medical marketplace to allocate resources, while raising quality and lowering cost in the process. Mandates should be avoided in favor of making more options available through consumer-driven health plans. Most such plans include the expansion of health savings accounts to encourage greater participation. Patients with health savings accounts are significantly more likely to talk to their doctor about treatment costs and options, track their health-care payouts and estimate future expenses.
But then, clear thinking never makes headway in D.C.
Homosexuals take aim at Mormon churches
I’m no fan of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, although Mormons make Bible-believing evangelism efforts look pretty bad by comparison. But the harassment the LDS has been subjected to in California by sore-loser homosexual activists over the approval of Prop 8, banning same-sex marriage, is inexusable. Here’s the latest attack.
