Why fight over a puny $60 billion reduction in budget that creates major confrontation and even the threat of government shutdown? There is a much better alternative: a private business initiative that Republicans, Tea-Partiers and even Democrats could love and cannot say no to.

First, repeal the entire health...

In May, I wrote an article about the Tea Party Movement. In it I predicted that the financial outcry we were hearing from the Tea Party in our country, as well as the collapse of the Greek banking system at the time, may be preludes to further turmoil...

The Tea Party's first protests against the government came in 2009. The anger and frustration was partly fueled by the previous year's bank bailouts.

But what were the Tea Partiers really so mad about?

Let's take a look at what the economy was like in the years before the...

Is the current unrest in Greece the harbinger for a coming popular movement against the excesses of the banking industry and government taxation?

Will history repeat itself?

In the 6th century BC, the people of Athens were suffering the consequences of lending with unchecked interest. Debtors who could not repay...

Price control of the health care insurers certainly does not invite bi-partisanship. House Republican Leader John Boehner has already said, "The president has crippled the credibility of this week's summit by proposing the same massive government takeover of health care based on a partisan bill the American people have already...

Health care in this country is in dire straits.

I've written two books suggesting fixes for our health care system. The system I proposed involves the creation of an independent people-funded, people-managed insurance coop. All Americans who are now covered by Medicare and Medicaid would still be covered. The government...

The current health care system is threatening to spiral into self-destruction and take the U.S. economy with it. So, President Obama is right that the question is not "whether we can afford reform but whether we can afford not to reform our health care system." The current legislation has created...

During the Bronze Age, legend has it that the Greeks laid siege to the city of Troy. They couldn't conquer it by raw military strength, so after ten years they turned to trickery. The Greeks presented a huge figure of a horse, which the Trojans took within their walls as...

To put a human face on our health care problem, I will share some stories with you to bring home the reason why we are so desperately in need of a nonprofit, people-funded, people-managed, private, single payer system. I have been in medicine for 40 years and have lots of...

Dear Mr. President,

You have given us the "audacity of hope" and the promise of change. You have vociferously indicated that our health care system is in need of major change. You have said that 50 million Americans are uninsured. Medicare is moving toward bankruptcy and taking down the economy...

In the first article of this series, I wrote that a universal health care system "can save more in one year than what we spent on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars since 9/11, i.e. a trillion dollars." I was wrong. There is more to it than that. Let me explain:...

The first article I wrote explained that implementing a Universal Health Care System, through a non-profit, single payer, private health insurance agency can save us one trillion dollars per year. That is more than what we spent on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11. This system saves...

Isn't it amazing that by implementing a universal health care system, as introduced in this article, we can save more in one year than what we spent on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars since 9/11, i.e. a trillion dollars? We can save this much each and every year and keep...