A subscription is expensive, but is so worth it.
Self saves all the back issues in a huge pile, and now and then, when things calm down a bit, she picks an issue from the pile to read.
The one she picked today is dated 1 February 2021, meaning shortly after Biden’s inauguration.
For all that Trump tried to trash America’s democratic governance, his fellow-Republicans had been doing damage to the idea of government itself long before he became their standard-bearer. The extreme belief in small government that so many in the G.O.P. have espoused . . . That attitude got a big assist from Republicans in the Senate who have successfully wielded the filibuster — the mechanism that requires a super-majority of sixty senators to move a bill to a vote — to block progressive legislation and prevent even the discussion of, for example, a public option for health care.
— Margaret Talbot, The Talk of the Town
“espoused” without an ounce of sincerity, self might add.
The system of health care in California is: if your income is lower than a certain level, your health care is shunted off to MediCal. And God help you, because none of the doctors self has been seeing for the past 20 years accepts Medi-Cal. She’s scared to ask WHICH doctors accept Medi-Cal. She’d rather stick with the doctors who know her medical history. Which means she still pays through the nose, her Medi-Cal card means nothing. But that’s better than the alternative, which is being dead.
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
Kanlaon 