Growing Pains of Health Care

It's health care political open season in the United States. Talk of death panels, tearing up placards, yelling in the faces of lawmakers at town halls, protesters openly showing off their guns at public events, posters making President Obama look like an evil socialist joker, or sporting the Hitler moustache, which used to be used for his predecessor at protests as well ...

But I'm not sure the public fervor has been at this high of a pitch since Vietnam.

Here is the first of several entries on the debate, this one about a colleague, confronted with serious illness to both her parents, a sister without health care, and long term care decimating the family savings ...