by Billy Wharton A simple question for the tea baggers. Where is the socialism now? Frenetic right-wingers spent a good part of the summer shouting about the “government takeover of health care,” or the “stealth socialist health care plan.” Now that the “Affordable Healthcare for America Act” has been passed by a slim margin in the House of Representatives, there are few traces of anything... 

by Billy Wharton published on the MRZine The frequently imbibing comedian W. C. Fields once proudly declared: “Everything I do is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.” The adjectives used by Fields perfectly characterize the role of the private health insurance industry in the debate about health care reform. As the debate intensifies more and more private health care profits are being...