Well, hello!

Are you still reading after all my wacko ranting and sentimental raving lately? Good! If you happen to live in California's 46th Congressional District, I want you to vote for Debbie Cook. All I know about her is that she supports universal single-payer health coverage, and that's practically all I want, too. So vote for her!

My recent tangle with our healthcare non-system (an angry Kaiser employee I know has a favorite tagline that HMOs should not be allowed to call themselves healthcare organizations) has reminded me of something that I knew before but have been ignoring - we have a moral and strategic obligation to dramatically improve the healthcare problem in this country.

I just turned the Democratic Convention off, in a huff ("The Greatest SUBSIDIZED Generation, you mean!!!!" Click.), but I hadn't heard anybody talk about health insurance in the time I was listening. Or childcare. At the moment, those are the things I care about, as I can't seem to get health insurance, and we're facing a looming three-week childcare "vacation" that will require much tacking-together-of-random-childcare options to get us through. Oh yeah, and millions of other people have way worse problems with these issues than I do. That's a good reason, too.