Posts tagged Affordable Care Act
Day 19 Look, There’s Haley’s Comet; or, Don’t Let Me Down Easy
Day 19 Look, There’s Haley’s Comet; or, Don’t Let Me Down Easy

I’m a Band-Aid-Off-Fast person. How about you? I’d rather have the immediate intensity of the sting all at once rather than the slow, agonizing burn of Band-Aid-Off-Slow. A Times’ article this morning by Thomas Fuller ran the headline, “How Much Should the Public Know?” I’ll tell you how much the public should know. Everything. Every last bloody thing.

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PandemicSusan Corsometa, metaphysics, Dr. Larry Brilliant, Nicholas Kristof, Chani, Charles M. Blow, Haley's Comet, Affordable Care Act, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, Jennifer Senior, The Huffington Post, Thomas Fuller, Band-Aid
Day 14: The Spin-Doctoring of Need & The Power of Story
Day 14: The Spin-Doctoring of Need & The Power of Story

Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson was known for claiming, “The first wealth is health.” Today I’m sure deputy editor of The New York Times Magazine Jessica Lustig agrees with him. In her article “What I Learned When My Husband Got Sick with Coronavirus,” she describes taking care of her beloved spouse as he is ravaged by COVID--19.

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PandemicSusan Corsometaphysics, U.S. Postal Service, Jessica Lustig, Advil, Tylenol, insulin, Needs and Wants, Needs, Wants, Vital Signs, Dollar Signs, Frank Bruni, Type-1 Diabetes, Governor Andrew Cuomo, essential, nonessential, spin-doctoring, Michael Sandel, Thomas Friedman, common good, individualism, solidarity, A.C.A., Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama, HIPAA, Health, Wealth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, public health, story, Narenda Modi, COVID-19, coronavirus