Saturday, September 29, 2018

Brett Kavanugh"s Drunken Rant at the Senate Hearing


Brett Kavanaugh looked and acted
 like he was drunk at the Senate hearing.


I'm surprised no one has mentioned it. Brett "I-Love-Beer" Kavanaugh may have had a few too many beers with his lunch while he was waiting to testify at the Senate hearing about Dr. Ford's allegations of his sexual assault on her when she was 15.

I worked as a bartender for a while when I was young.  I got to recognize drunks. There are three types of drunks: The teary drunk, the angry drunk, and the happy drunk.  The angry drunk showed up at the hearing along with the teary drunk.

To begin with, his face seemed flushed and a bit sweaty. Was that because he was drunk?

Second, he was clearly angry, but way more than just angry. He seemed to be out-of-control angry. He was belligerent and and disrespectful to the Democratic senators. I have never seen anyone act that in a hearing.

And third, he was crying. Crying a lot. Not just wiping away a tear or displaying a slight quavering in his voice as is sometimes seem when men speak in public about something that gets them emotional.  He was bawling. And as I observed with teary drunks, he was brimming over with self-pity.

He couldn't hold it together. He was clearly drunk. He kept repeating himself. He could have calmly stated that he liked  beer--liking beer is not disqualifying--but he went on and on about how he loved beer. Saying it once was normal; saying it 20 times is drunken behavior.

I'll just add a few final thoughts. If I had been in his position, I would have owned up to my "wild youth" when the subject first came up.  I would have said:

"Like a lot of kids, I did stupid things when I was in high school. I sometimes drank too much and I sometimes tried to hard too prove to everyone that I was an "alpha male."  The things I wrote in my yearbook were not true; it was only the bravado of a teenage boy showing off for the other boys. 
"When I was drunk, I may have done some stupid things. I'm sure I never tried to rape anyone because that is not my character.  I don't remember this incident or anything like it. But if I ever made unwanted sexual advances to any girl, I sincerely apologize and ask for her forgiveness. 
"However, I am not that person anymore. I still enjoy having an occasional beer with my friends, but I don't drink to excess."
Essentially, he should have "thrown himself upon the mercy of the court."  I think he would have gotten away with it. Everyone knows lots of kids are wild as teenagers, but abandon that type of behavior when they grow up.

Instead Kavanaugh told ridiculous lies when he denied or tried to explain away everything. That is another reason I think he was drunk. His judgement was impaired. I can't imagine a sober person telling lies as stupid as the ones he told.

He spoke about his reputation being ruined, but he blamed others for this. He ruined his own reputation with his behavior then, and now, and his stupid lies. 

Friday, March 9, 2018

International Women’s Day, The Polasek Museum, and Serendipity


International Women's Day
International Women's Day is celebrated on March 8th every year. 
International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated every year on March, 8th. The observance was first held on February 28, 1909 in New York. It was organized by the Socialist Party of America.

In 2017, the IWD had ten partners—a very interesting mix of mainstream businesses including Avon, Pepisco and bp. (“You’ve come a long way baby.”)

There was even a theme: #BeBoldForChange. And a color: Red. The day was celebrated worldwide with marches and workers’ strikes.

Women were asked to not go into work and to not spend any money in order to demonstrate women’s economic power. I’m not in favor of this aspect of it. Unfortunately, most women can’t afford to take off from work and not spending money may actually hurt workers.

But I was happy to wear a bright red blouse as I headed off for a visit to the Alvin Polasek Museum in Winter Park (adjacent to Orlando) in Florida. It was a tour that had been planned months ago—a group of senior citizens and a group of students from nearby Rollins College were to take the tour together as part of an inter-generational program.

I was sad to see that only one other person (a female student) was wearing red. We were apparently the only two people out of about a group of 30 who wanted to celebrate and show solidarity with IWD.

The Polasek Museum is treasure. The main building is the actual house and workshop of Albin Polasek (1879-1965), a well-known and widely acclaimed sculptor and artist. He was born in Moravia (now part of the Czech Republic) and immigrated to the United States in 1901. So visiting this museum was also a way of celebrating the contributions of immigrants to the united States.

After touring the house, the group went out to the garden—three acres overlooking Lake Osceola. The walk allowed us to see dozens of magnificent sculptures and statues surrounded by lush landscaping. (It was almost like a botanical garden.) Many of these statues were in this garden when Polasek was alive.

Towards the end of the tour, we came upon a beautiful bronze statue of a woman done in 1925. It is named “Unfettered.” It shows a woman poised and confident with one arm gracefully extended to the heavens.

Unfettered by Alvin Polasek
"Unfettered" is a sculpture by Alvin Polasek.
At the base of the statue, there is a representation of clouds. According to contemporary art critic Dorothy Grafly this symbolized woman “at last breaking through the clouds of ignorance and super­sti­tion into the full light of free­dom.”

The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which gave women the right to vote was ratified in 1920. This statue was done to honor women’s suffrage.

This piece was done as a companion piece to his 1907 sculpture “Man Carving His Own Destiny” (Polasek did 53 different variations of this sculpture over his lifetime. The one on display elsewhere in the garden was done in 1961.) Both pieces are done in the classical tradition which celebrates the nude form.

"Man Carving His Own Destiny"  by Alvin Polasek
Which brings me to serendipity part of this essay. The definition of this word is the phenomenon of accidentay finding just the right thing. How wonderful that I should stumble upon this magnificent statue celebrating women and their rise from suppression on International Women’s Day.

Note:
The Polasek Museum is located in Winter Park, Florida. Be sure to spend a few hours there if you are in the Orlando area.


© Catherine Giordano 2018

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Women Are on the March

Women's March 2017
Women marched in protest.
On the first anniversary of the hugely successful Women's March that took place the day after the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States, women (and also men) once again marched in protest. The first year of the Trump presidency has been even worse than most of use imagined. Once again women (and also men) took to the streets in many cities in the United States and around the world in huge numbers. 

I wrote the following brief essay last year. I am republishing it now because the need for protest is greater than ever. 

Please remember the most important march will take place in November when we march to the polls and reclaim the majority in the Senate and the House of Representatives. 


The Worldwide Woman’s March on January 21, 2017—Why I Marched


On Saturday January 22, 2017, the day after the inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States, millions of people all over the world participated in the Women’s March. In the United States, the main demonstration was in Washington D.C. It attracted over one million people.

(In contrast, the Trump inauguration held the day before had only 650,000 in attendance. This also compares unfavorably with the 1.8 million people who attended Obama’s inauguration in 2009.)

The women (and many men too) marched to support a variety of issues that affect women and to support equality for all people. The primary focus was on issues of sexism, racism, xenophobia, gender equality, and other forms of oppression. There was also some protesting the new president.

Many women wore pink knitted “kitten hats,” as a sign of protest against the notorious remark that was caught on tape about how the president liked to grab women by their private parts.

In Orlando Florida, it was a sunny 80 degrees-- too hot for pink knitted caps. We wore sun-hats.

Over 3,000 people congregated at the band shell in Lake Eola Park. The rally began with speeches given by women—some were elected officials, some were leaders of various organizations, and some were just ordinary people with a story to tell. The speakers urged us to take action, including running for elected office.

We were entertained by two amazing acapella choral groups and a dynamite poet who forcefully portrayed the plight of women who are told “girls don’t do these things.”

After the speeches concluded, we marched around Lake Eola—a march that was a little under a mile. There were so many people marching that when the first marchers completed the circuit around the lake, there were still others in the band shell area waiting to begin.

Gricel Fernandez, co-organizer of the Orlando march, said why she and her co-organizer Autumn Garick did it. “"We want people who come to realize democracy is something you take part in every single day. It's not just every four years. If an issue matters to you, it should matter to you every day.... Even though you may just be one person, one voice, it doesn't matter. I am one person and I made one phone call, and now all these people are here."

Why did I do it? I didn’t do it because I thought that my participation was going to be the thing that made a difference. I did it because I needed to do it. I did it for myself.

There was a sign carried by one of the women that read: “I will not go quietly back to the 1950s.” Maybe that is why I did it.


© Catherine Giordano 2017

Saturday, October 7, 2017

Is Donald Trump the Most Dangerous Man in the World?

Donald-Trump-Dangerous-Crazy
Is Donald Trump the Most Dangerous Man in the World
 because his psyche is a "witches brew" of craziness?

Donald Trump is the most powerful man in the world. And, that makes Donald Trump the most dangerous man in the world. Donald Trump is dangerous because he is the president of the United States and he is not in his right mind. His personality is a crazy “witches brew” of malignant personality disorders.

About six months ago, I wrote an article about this, titled: “How Many Kinds of Crazy is Donald Trump?” 

Donald-Trump-Crazy
How Many Kinds of Crazy is Donald Trump?

It turns out I am not the only person who thinks Donald Trump has a lot of what can euphemistically be called “mental issues”. A whole book has now been written about his “issues.” This book is:



Donald-Trump-Dangerous-Case
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump

The book is edited by Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div., an Assistant Clinical Professor in Law and Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine. She maintains that psychiatrists have a “duty to warn” that supersedes any ethical qualms about "diagnosing at a distance."

Trump is literally making millions of people crazy. The second section of the above book was devoted to what some call "Trump Anxiety Disorder" or "Trump-Induced Anxiety Disorder."  You can red the details in this essay.  Trump Anxiety Disorder: Is Trump Literally Making Us Sick?

Trump Anxiety Disorder
Trump Anxiety Disorder

Back to the book: There are 27 chapters, each written by a psychiatrist or mental health expert, with each zeroing in on a particular danger. The raison d’etre of the book might be summed up with the title to just one of the chapters in the book, “He’s Got the World in His Hands and His Finger on the Trigger.”

In my article about Trump’s personality disorders, I said that I thought the stress of being president was making his craziness worse. Again, it turns out that I am not the only one who thinks so. Some of the people who have known Trump for many years are saying he’s gotten much worse since becoming president. In the prologue to The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, Dr. Judith Lewis Herman wrote: “Fostered by the flattery of underlings and the chants of crowds, a political leader’s grandiosity may morph into grotesque delusions of grandeur.”

No one doubts that Donald Trump is a narcissist. Some may even make the case that a little bit of narcissism is a good thing in a leader. But psychiatrists think that Trump’s narcissism has crossed the line into “malignant narcissism.”  Erich Fromm, a renowned psychiatrist,  thought that “malignant narcissism”  was the most severe pathology of all. He wrote that it was,“the root of the most vicious destructiveness and inhumanity.” (Quoted from Fromm’s book, The Heart of Man, 1964)

In an interview, Robert Jay Lifton, one of the contributors to the book, questioned Donald Trump’s grip on reality. He said Donald Trump creates his own reality, a reality that allows opposing beliefs to be held as true at the same time, a reality that allows lies to be perceived as truth. Speaking about Donald Trump, Lifton said “…the only reality he’s capable of embracing has to do with his own self and the perception by and protection of his own self. And for a president to be so bound in this isolated solipsistic reality could not be more dangerous for the country and for the world.”

Some of the other chapter titles will give you a sense of the books concerns.
  •  "Unbridled and Extreme Present Hedonism"
  •  "Pathological Narcissism and Politics: A Lethal Mix"
  •  "Sociopathy; Donald Trump: Is (A) Bad, (B) Mad, (C) All of the Above)"
  •  "Why 'Crazy Like a Fox' versus 'Crazy Like a Crazy' Really Matters”
  •  “Cognitive Impairment, Dementia and POTUS"
This is a book that you won’t be able to put down. It is a thoughtful book by thoughtful professionals in the field of mental health with useful insights to share. It deals with serious issues, but it is written for the general public and it does not scorn a bit of levity here and there. It is an important book that every American needs to read.

I'll end this book review with the only question remaining: “What can we do about it?"



© Catherine Giordano 2017

Thursday, August 24, 2017

Was Hillary Too Good for America?






Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton may have lost because
she was too good for America.
Hillary Clinton was best qualified candidate for president of the United States ever. Did she lose because she was “Miss Goody Two Shoes?” 
The phrase “Miss Goody Two Shoes” comes from a children’s story published in London in 1765, The History of Miss Goody Two Shoes. . A poor girl—so poor she only has one shoe—is a very good and kindhearted person. Her her goodness is eventually rewarded with a  second shoe and a rich husband.
 
Hillary Clinto
Hillary Clinton may have been the best qualified person
 ever to run for president. 

Hillary’s mistake was overestimating the goodness of the American electorate. I too felt that the American people were good people, and they would never vote for a narcissistic greedy bully like Donald Trump. Both she and I were wrong. 


Hillary is honest, ethical, and hardworking. Almost all of the negative stuff you heard about it was bogus. Minor things were blown way out of proportion in order to create "scandals." She ran an ethical campaign--no mud-slinging and no promising what she could not deliver.

Being a good person herself, Hillary trusted in the goodness of the American people. It was inconceivable to her that Americans would vote for a vulgar, lying, thieving, conman and bully to hold the highest office in the land. 

Hillary was punished for her goodness. 

Miss Goody Two Shoes is only rewarded in fairy tales.

I have written about this in detail in another longer essay.  Please see: Was Hillary Too Good for America?  

You can read Hillary Clinton's new book, What Happened, for more about Hillary Clinton and her campaign for president. 


Hillary Clinton's memoir, "What Happened"
Hillary Clinton's memoir, "What Happened" 



If you want to know more about Republican dirty tricks that cost Hillary Clinton the presidency read this new book by Joshua Green, Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the PresidencyHe is a reporter who was there from the start. He gives us his compelling inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump. It is the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right and the hidden forces behind the greatest upset in American political history.

Joshua Green "Devil's Bargain"
Joshua Green "Devil's Bargain"

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© Catherine Giordano 2017




Saturday, July 15, 2017

If the Porch Needs Fixing, You Don't Burn the House Down

If the porch needs fixing, you fix the porch. You don’t burn the house down. When it comes to the ACA (ObamaCare), it seems the Republicans want to burn the house down. 
Porch-House-Burn
The ACA needs a few minor fixes--amend it, don't end it. 
The Republican Health Care is an attempt to bring down the The Affordable Care Act (ACA) and pretend that they were not the ones who lit the match. They'll try to claim that it was spontaneous combustion.   

It is like burning the house down because the porch has a few damaged planks. The ACA does have some problems—some inherent in the law itself, but many caused by Republican efforts to stymie the plan in every way they can in order to cause it to fail. (The truth is Republicans oppose all social programs; they will be coming for Medicare and Social Security next.)
A single payer or public option plan would be the best way to fix the problems with health care in America, but the insurance lobby is too powerful. A few minor fixes here and there could help the plan work better. As the Democrats say: “Amend it, don’t end it.”
On May 4, 2017, the GOP House finally passed a "repeal and replace" bill. The Republicans had a little party at the White House laughing and cheering about taking away your healthcare.(Also doing a lot of lying--pre-existing conditions are not protected. The bill is a massive tax cut for the wealthy disguised as a health care bill.)
This celebration made me think of GWB on the deck of an aircraft carrier with a "Mission Accomplished" banner. This Rose Garden party will come back to bite them in the ass.
In the Senate, the bill was  dead on arrival. They did their own bill. It was such a bad bill they couldn't get even Republican support for it. SWon now3 they are coming back with the "new and revised" bill. It does not look likely that they can get it passed, but there will be some powerful arm-twisting going on in smoke-filled rooms. For the time being, the ACA is still the law of the land.
If a "repeal and replace bill ever does get signed into law, the ACA will be burned to the ground.  The Republican "fixes" are designed to cause the ACA to fail. And when it does, there will be no going back.
We should not jump from the frying pan to the fire. The Trump-Ryan plan, cobbled together in a rush and pushed through Congress with the speed of a wild-fire, is not the answer. The Senate plan devised behind closed doors is not the answer. A plan that requires the removal of the “pre-existing condition” exclusion, but does not require the expansion of the risk-pool through universal coverage (the mandate) will force premiums sky-high until eventually the whole system collapses.
Maybe that will be a good thing. With the insurance industry in shambles, America might be able to get a single payer plan, similar to the plans every other Western democracy has. In these nations, health care is less costly and the health outcomes are much better.
I’d like to say, "Let them burn the house down," but I can’t because tens of millions of people will suffer, and many will die, if they do. You can’t play with fire.
© Catherine Giordano 2017
P.S.: Too many people are unaware of all the ways that the ACA is benefiting them. It’s true some people benefit more than others, but everybody benefits in some way. Please read this: How Does the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) Benefit Every American 
TrumpCare turned out to be just a wastebasket fire. It was put out on March 24. Plan B will be worse. It is like the smoldering embers that eventually flare into a raging forest fire. You don't see it coming. TrumpCarePlan B for ObamaCare: Destroy It. 
© 2017 Catherine Giordano

Here's what Bill Maher had to say about the bill passed in the House of Representatives. 






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The book is divided into three parts. In Part I, Emanuel gives us the history of the American health care system. In Part II, he reports on the efforts to reform the system., In Part III, he tries to predict the future for this bill. (The book was written in 2015.) Some of his predictions were right on, but others missed the mark. Crystal-ball gazing is always hazardous.

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Saturday, March 25, 2017

TrumpCare Plan B for ObamaCare: “Explode It”

TrumpCare, ObamaCare, ACA
Trump and Ryan have a Plan B for the ACA: Explode It. 

October 12, 2017 Update: Here is info on the latest attempts to destroy ObamaCare.


July 28 Update

This post was written before the House manged to pass a so-called "repeal and replace" bill and Senate took up their own bills to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare).The Senate ignored the House bill and put three different bills of their own to a vote. All of the bills failed to pass. The last one failed by just one vote when three Republicans--John McCain, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski voted no. 

But Republicans have a Plan B. They will subvert the law. despite their oaths to "faithfully execute" the law. Here is what Trump wrote in a tweet: " As I said from the beginning, let ObamaCare implode, then deal. Watch!"

Not much has changed since the first bill failed in the House. What follows is the original post. Please be sure to read the "next steps" section. 

“It was never repeal and place; it was bait and switch.”

Bill Maher, on his HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher summed up the whole Republican, Donald Trump, and Paul Ryan plan for health care with the above quip.

The bill that would have stripped millions of health insurance, the bill that made a mockery of health insurance, may be dead, but the plan to destroy the ACA (ObamaCare) is far from dead. 

Trump Announces the Republican “Repeal and Replace” Bill Has Failed

At 3:31 pm (ET) on Friday, March 24, 2017 Trump called a reporter, Robert Costa from the Washington Post. Trump told him that he had pulled the bill for the Republican “American Health Care Act" (AHCA).There would be no vote in the House of Representatives. The ACA would remain the law of the land.

Trump then video-taped an announcement which was aired on TV. He spoke in his usual rambling style. I was struck by how he repeated over and over that he was going to wait for the ACA to explode. I was laughing at Trump’s poor choice of words. The right word was implode, which means to collapse. I soon realized that Trump was actually using the right word to convey his intentions. He was saying that he wants to explode, blow-up, the ACA.

How Republicans Plan to “Explode” the ACA
Republicans have already been quietly undermining the ACA. As Nichol Kristoff said in a TV interview, they would “step on the oxygen hose.”  

Trump began this in his first week as president. He told every agency to stop all financial outlays that they could within the bounds of the law. They could cut-off funds or delay them, all with the goal of preventing the smooth operation of this program. .

Why are insurance agencies withdrawing from the ACA market? It is because Republicans passed a bill that withdrew the subsidies that were supposed to protect insurance companies from the risk they would incur by the sudden influx of people with pre-existing conditions. These subsidies were supposed to last ten years to allow the market to stabilize as more healthy people entered the pool of insured.

More laws and action to explode the ACA are sure to be coming. The Democrats and the media have failed to keep the American public aware of this.

How Republicans Dodged a Bullet 

Paul Ryan cancelled the vote in the House of Representatives to avoid the humiliation of having it fail, bigly (as Trump would say). According to news reports, about 30 to 40 Republicans were going to vote “No.”  If they held a vote, even more Republicans might have voted against it because they would not want to be on record voting for a failed bill.

Since there is no record of votes, no Republican has to face the voters with an on-the- record vote on this highly unpopular bill. Only 17% of Americans were in favor of this bill. I can’t think of any bill with lower public support.

This bill was put together in a slapdash fashion in just a few weeks. There were no hearings to allow for testimony from stakeholders like insurance companies, doctors and hospitals, and patients. 

As the bill started to look doomed, panic set in--Ryan kept making the bill worse and worse as he tried to appease the Freedom Caucus. (Maher called them “the artist formerly known at the Tea Party.”) However when he appeased the extreme right wing of the Republican Party, he then had to add sweeteners for the more moderate Republicans from swing districts who feared losing their elections in 2018 if they voted for this draconian bill.      

  
HealthCare Services
The 10 Essential Services Insurance Companies Would No Longer Have to Provide If Republicans Succeed in Passing a "Repeal and Replace" Bill.

Trump Tried to Put the Blame on Democrats
In his rambling speech, Trump repeatedly said that no Democrats were willing to vote for the bill. I nearly fell off my couch laughing. 

Here's why the claim is laughabloe.

  • When the ACA was passed, not a single Republican voted for it.
  • The Democrats were never asked to support the bill.
  • The Republicans have a 44 person majority in the House of Representatives. They surely didn’t need votes from Democrats. Even with this large majority they could not get enough votes.

  
Trump and Ryan Lied About the “Death Spiral”
Republicans constantly say that the ACA is in a “death spiral.” This is not true, despite the Republican efforts to kill it.  Ahe ACA is not imploding.

  • There were 12.4 million new sign-ups for 2017.
  • The CBO reports that the program is stable.  
  • Politifacts rates Ryan’s claim about the ACA failing as “mostly false” saying “health care costs have risen more slowly since the law took effect and the law has met its major goal of getting more people insured -- an estimated 20 million. That’s not a failure.”

The Art of No-Deal
Trump is very fond of telling everyone that he is a great deal-maker.  Yet, he failed miserably 

Trump is nothing but a con-man.  I am amazed that the people who supported him could not see this. His ridiculous pie-in-the-sky promises were never backed up with any actual explanation of how he would accomplish them

Just look at the bill that just failed.

  • Trump promised everybody would be covered—this bill would have meant that 24 million people would lose their insurance. 
  • He said his plan would cost much less. This bill would have raised premiums. 
  • He said the plan would be fantastic. This bill would have provided fewer benefits.


Maher said, “Trump is worse than a used-car salesman, because with a used car salesman at least you get a car.” Trump supporters are getting nothing.


  • ·Repeal and Replace: Failed
  •  The Muslim Ban: The courts have blocked it. Twice.
  •  The Wall, Tax Cuts (for the middle class) , and Jobs: We can wait and see, but so far  there is no evidence that he will accomplish any of this.


Trump Con-Man

The failure of Trump’s first bill does not bode well for future success.

Republicans have learned that they can oppose Trump and win. They need have no fear of him or his “mean tweets.”

Democrats have learned that if they stay unified, they can win.  

Next Steps for Democrats
Trump (in the midst of blaming Democrats for his failure) sort of indicated that he was open to working with Democrats. They should call his bluff on this. Come to Trump with a bill that will undo Republican sabotage and fix some of the problems with the ACA.

Democrats should push for a single payer—Medicare-For- Allplan. 

Before there was Obama Care, there was RomneyCare in the state of Massachusetts. It worked so well that it was the model for the ACA. States like New York and California should start their own plan.

You can use a bot to send a fax to senators and representatives. Text the word RESIST to 50409. Follow instructions and a fax will be sent. I tried it. I wanted to fax Marco Rubio, and I did. But I think the same fax went to others. Next time I will write my message in more generic terms. For instance "Stop efforts to destroy ACA" works for both Dems and Republicans. 

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Do you know how ObamaCare benefits every American?  ObamaCare (ACA) Benefits You Even if You Don't Know It

When Donald Trump took office, he swore "to faithfully uphold  the laws". Now, he hinting that he will subvert them by withholding funds for the subsidies. Read about it here. Donald Trump Dangles 



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The book is divided into three parts. In Part I, Emanuel gives us the history of the American health care system. In Part II, he reports on the efforts to reform the system., In Part III, he tries to predict the future for this bill. (The book was written in 2015.) Some of his predictions were right on, but others missed the mark. Crystal-ball gazing is always hazardous.

Just a note: You can show your support for my posts by using the above link when you purchase this or any other book. I thank you in advance.


© Catherine Giordano 2017