I watched some professional hockey this year for the first time in my life, including tonight. The Blackhawks won in overtime after playing some really good hockey, and some pretty terrible hockey. The ending was weird with the goal that fooled the goal horn (or whatever that was), but it worked out. Fun!
Carla Zilbersmith died on May 17, and will be missed. She was a pretty inspirational person that I knew first through my work on her website (not the blog that she maintained during her battle with ALS), and later through reading her blog. A lot of people talk about Carpe Diem and whatnot, but something about the way she wrote about it was more resonant for me, and I know there have been forks in the road that I’ve looked at, and she influenced my thinking about which way to go. Most of the time, I’m pretty sure I’m better off for it. I think.
Regardless, thanks for everything, Carla.
Just for the record, here’s some of what I think about the health care reform business.
There should not be a mandate in the bill if there’s no public option. I think there should be a public option, but if for some reason that can’t work right now, there’s nothing good about requiring people to have coverage from corporate health care companies. That doesn’t do anyone (except the insurance industry) any good.
Refusing coverage based on pre-existing conditions is bad, and should be dropped. Too bad we can’t just have a bill that takes care of that little problem by itself.
It shouldn’t be illegal to buy prescription drugs from Canada or any other place where they can be made more cheaply. Again, it would be nice to have this by itself.
Until there’s some form of real campaign finance reform, we’re not going to get anywhere meaningful on this or any other large issues.
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