Health Care 
McCain’s Plans: Hand Over Your Health Care and Social Security to Wall Street(0)
While we observe the financial meltdown this week and the loss of Lehman Brothers and the U.S. government nationalization of AIG, after bailing out Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, it is important to realize that John McCain wants to privatize Social Security.
What does that mean? It means taking your Social Security retirement funds and [...]
The Suffering of Soldiers - New York Times
Several years into a pair of wars, the Department of Veterans Affairs is struggling to cope with a task for which it was tragically unready: the care of soldiers who left Afghanistan and Iraq with an extra burden of brain injury and psychic anguish. The last thing they need is the toxic blend of secrecy, [...]
Troops Survive Injuries that Would Have Been Fatal In the Past
As John McCain ignores our troops injuries, much to his everlasting shame, the system is being overwhelmed by U.S. troops with severe injuries who would not have survived their wounds in the past.
What’s left are thousands of broken bodies, broken minds, and broken lives, and a V.A. system ill-prepared to take care of their needs. [...]