Our Health Policy Matters

I admit it.  I have Obamacare fatigue. I’m tired of endless stories about website glitches and the small numbers of people who rushed to buy health insurance three months before it would even go into effect.  But I am most fatigued by the newest invented controversy about the so-called “health-insurance-you-like” policies that have been outlawed because they do not meet even the bare minimum standards established by the law.  That’s right – the American people just love lousy health insurance! Source: NSDUH, 2013 So I thought I would write about something less controversial – drugs.  Because some new facts suggest that if we really want to change a useless federal policy, we will end – as quickly as we can – our failed War on Drugs. President Richard M. Nixon declared “War on Drugs” in June of 1971.   We have been fighting this war for forty-two years now, long enough to determine if it has made any difference in our lives.  It has.  ...

I admit it.  I have Obamacare fatigue. I’m tired of endless stories about website glitches and the small numbers of people who rushed to buy health insurance three months before it would even go into effect.  But I am most fatigued by the newest invented controversy about the so-called “health-insurance-you-like” policies that have been outlawed because they do not meet even the bare minimum standards established by the law.  That’s right – the American people just love lousy health insurance! Source: NSDUH, 2013 So I thought I would write about something less controversial – drugs.  Because some new facts suggest that if we really want to change a useless federal policy, we will end – as quickly as we can – our failed War on Drugs. President Richard M. Nixon declared “War on Drugs” in June of 1971.   We have been fighting this war for forty-two years now, long enough to determine if it has made any difference in our lives.  It has.  ...