A Progressive Health Care Solution
by Mark Wilson, Editor
closeAuthor: Mark Wilson, Editor
Name: Mark Wilson
Email: fitzador@gmail.com
Site: http://demockracy.com
About: Mark works as a system administrator whose prowess in Unix is rivaled only by his satire, which he honed as a student journalist at Miami University. He has worked variously as an IT consultant and web designer and has spent most of his Thursday evenings for the last three years volunteering at Berkeley’s needle exchange. Though he currently resides in Oakland, California, Mark grew up outside Cleveland, Ohio and has a fondness for the Midwest and its snow, which is something he doesn’t see much of in Calfiornia. He holds degrees in History and English Literature from Miami and wrote his thesis about how visions of dystopia in literature change throughout time and space (naturally). Mark publishes the “Lawful Dissent” column for Demockracy, and helps shape the editorial direction of the site.See Authors Posts (61)
January 30, 2009
In one of my earlier posts, I said that I hoped President Obama would be progressive. I further tried to offer a definition of progressive, to be contrasted with liberal and conservative. That didn’t go over too well. I’m trying again, this time by using the concrete example of health care. How would a progressive go about health care reform? This is the question that I answer in Demockracy’s first-ever podcast – take a listen:
Progressivism and Health Care
Mark, although I disagree with some of the details, I find this podcast very engaging. Just today, I read an interesting discussion about different types of “progressivism.” Nate Silver outlines the differences between “Radical progressivism” and “Rational progressivism.” Semantics of those labels aside, you should check out the descriptions. It’s obviously a vast oversimplification, but interesting discussion nonetheless:
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/02/two-progressivisms.html