What we’re reading
Patrick O'Callahan | December 21, 2009
This editorial will appear in tomorrow's print edition.
It’s fitting that the U.S. Senate is poised to approve historic health care legislation during Christmas week. Like a big present under the tree, the package looks gorgeous, promises to run up the Visa card and conceals things known to only a few.
But shaking the box tells you [...]
Patrick O'Callahan | September 30, 2009
This editorial will appear in tomorrow's print edition.
It took the worst recession since the Great Depression to force the issue, but Pierce County may finally do the unthinkable: require workers to share the cost of their own health insurance.
County Executive Pat McCarthy’s 2010 spending plan is a brutal budget for brutal times. But one of [...]
Cheryl Tucker | September 10, 2009
This editorial will appear in Friday's print edition
Health care providers are urging their patients to get flu shots this fall – against the regular seasonal flu and the new swine flu virus.
Uh . . . physicians, heal thyself.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, fewer than half of health care workers got a flu shot [...]
Kim Bradford | September 6, 2009
This editorial will appear in Monday's print edition.
Congress returns this week from a summer of discontent to stare down health care legislation – including Medicare reform – once again.
Fresh from their battering back home, Democrats will be trying to figure out how to salvage health care reform without setting themselves up for a fall in [...]
Kim Bradford | September 3, 2009
Washington’s congressional delegation has long railed against Medicare reimbursement rates that penalize this state for having an efficient health care system. They shouldn’t squander the opportunity to finally do something about them in the health care legislation before Congress.
UPDATE: We're holding this editorial and running one about the court ruling on the Kent teacher strike [...]
