• Why do we put our employers at a competitive disadvantage by requiring them to provide health care for their employees?
• Why do hospitals need to provide free care to the uninsured, causing financial distress, especially in low income neighborhoods?
• Why do doctors need to hire staff whose sole purpose is to sift through the red-tape imposed by different insurance companies?
• And why do we allow a system of billing as described in this article? This could happen to just about anyone.

Stop the madness. Single payer, single payer, single payer!

Those Indecipherable Medical Bills? They’re One Reason Health Care Costs So Much

This is the first of two essays on the subject of website publishing. The second is What you Need to Know.

Introduction

You may not need to publish a website to accomplish what you want. If what you really want is a blog, for example, you can set one up for free at WordPress.com. Google offers lots of free on-line collaboration tools. At some point, you may feel limited by these free tools. If you don’t have the money to hire a professional to create a website, you may want to take the plunge and run your own website. Think of it as an adventure!

Here are some things I wish I knew when I first started.

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