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September 19, 2007

Healthcare Open Letter to Kevin Brady

Healthcare is such a big issue these days it is difficult to realize most of the people writing about it really are not touched by the consequences of the morass of the medical marketplace.  I am.  The ridiculous expense of medical insurance forced me out of the policy I was carrying for myself and my four children last month. (And, as of this writing I have not received a promised refund from World Insurance.)  What follows is a letter I wrote to my Congressman, Kevin Brady, on this issue.  It reflects some of my philosophy on the medical marketplace and what I thinkg government's role is in that marketplace.

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March 23, 2007

The Dismal Science

Lee Emmerich Jamison

Mark Twain said that there were..."lies, damned lies, and statistics." Oh, that his wit could have been applied to some of the modern world's notions of the sciences. When I was a student at Centenary College of Louisiana Economics was "the dismal science". "Political Science" was a punch line. Both statements remain true today. Unfortunately society has since been indoctrinated to speaking these course names with a straight face.

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