It was bad enough that last week when Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in an unprecedented move for an HHS secretary, overturned the FDA’s approval of her department’s decision to release the Plan B One Step morning after emergency contraceptive for women as an over-the-counter medication, regardless of age.
In yet another stunning reversal, President Obama and many leaders in the Democratic Party have backed away from support of a true consumer champion.
In September it was Elizabeth Warren, then acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). This month it is Dr. Donald Berwick, acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS). Read the rest of this entry »
At a time when we are sending our young men and women to the Middle East to free Afghanis from 9th century fundamentalist ignorance, it is ironic and very wrong when the men and women of the Republican Party who aspire to the highest office in the nation proudly raise their hands and assert their disbelief in science, and, in particular, Evolution.
Surprisingly, almost a full century since the famous Scopes trial, the divide between science and fundamentalist religion in this country is wider than ever. In a 2010 Gallop poll, 40% of Americans surveyed rejected evolution.
Shooting the messenger is not merely a literary metaphor for punishing the bearer of bad news. Lately it seems to be the way that those in power, whether it be in public or private organizations, literally eliminate anyone with the temerity to expose wrongs.
First rule in debate: Define your terms. Yet when debating the potential of various tax policy proposals on small business and job creation, both sides gloss over the most important term: What, exactly, is a small business?
Who is Brooksley E. Born?
Ask almost anyone and you’ll invariably get a shrug. Elizabeth Warren may be a bit better known, but if the Republicans have their way, she will likely also be erased forever from the American consciousness.
From August 26, 1996 until June 1, 1999, Brooksley E. Born chaired the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the federal agency charged with oversight of the futures and commodity options markets.
Unfortunately, like Warren today, Born took her role seriously and lobbied Congress and President Clinton for regulation of highly complex financial instruments known as “derivatives,” whose value derives from combinations of other, more basic, underlying assets. Read the rest of this entry »
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