Thanks for fighting, more nuance needed and other letters to the editor
Thanks for fighting. Here is a photo of Leo Munoz of Congressman Charlie Gonzales' office accepting boxing gloves to keep on fighting for health care.
Difficult victory
Overcoming the intense lobbying efforts of the health insurance-industrial complex and their far-right "tea party" stormtroopers, which spent some $640,000 a day opposing health care reform, the American people and their organizations, especially their unions, mobilized and pushed through a bill that can improve the health care system for millions of insured and uninsured people.
Health care, abortion and ‘a bridge too far’
By a vote of 220-215 the Democrats ushered in health reform legislation, the likes of which haven't been seen since Medicare passed in 1965. But it came with a price.
Tales of hard times on the coast
On California's north coast, the sea used to provide many a worker and family a decent living - but no longer.
Keep pushing
The people are not buying the false notion that so-called "free market" is the answer to all their problems.
All Americans deserve health care
All Americans deserve health care. Private insurance companies are not getting the job done. Solving this serious national problem is a legitimate function of government. It requires a public solution.
Debunking GOP lies
The Republican Party claims progressive change on health care and big business is the same as Nazi Germany. Lou Incognito debunks these lies.
I remember Ted Kennedy
I was a senior at Amherst College in the spring of 1964 when I boarded a chartered bus with my wife Joyce and our son Morgan, then less than six months old, for a trip to Washington, D.C., to lobby for passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. When we arrived in the nation's capital we went to a hearing room in the Russell Senate Office Building.
