Suzi Wizowaty

Every Tuesday afternoon, the three parties hold their caucuses, to go over the bills to be introduced that week. This last Tuesday, we Dems got an advance look at the budget and what's called the Miscellaneous Tax Bill. Now both Appropriations and Ways and Means committees consist of smart, incredibly hardworking people who this year managed to come up with a balanced budget and some creative solutions that kept the state's human services programs from being eviscerated, as Governor Douglas had proposed. But. (more…)

What's keeping me awake at night these days is the growing sense that, with repect to health care reform, we're avoiding the most important, and the hardest, question.

I suppose we're trying. After all, we do talk about "containing costs." But what do we mean? Which costs? Whose costs?

Pharmaceutical costs? The cost of (more…)