Robert L. Terrell

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My Best Case for Using Worst Possible Case Thinking While Designing The National Health Care Program

As a person who strongly supports the establishment of a high quality, efficient, intelligently managed, and honorably functioning system of health care in the United States that includes every citizen on an equal basis, I feel obligated to offer the following line of thinking regarding dangers inherent in such a system.
My sense of obligation in [...]

Sometimes Conservatives Get It Right: Government and End of Life Dilemmas

Through clenched jaws, and fluctuating surges of dread and high hopes, I am forcing myself to enjoy the current hellacious debate underway here in the United States over the Obama administration’s titanic struggle to enact substantive health care reform. Moreover, the longer I ponder the arguments pro and con, and the shifting cast of frequently [...]

Random Thoughts and Practical Recommendations Regarding the National Health Care Debate

Much depends on the outcome of the extraordinary struggle underway in Washington. D.C. over the Obama administration’s muddled effort to establish a system of health care that includes all U.S. citizens. As a result, the outcome of this particular struggle will almost certainly shape the nation’s social agenda for the next generation.  If the [...]

Gentrification, Homeless People and Young Professionals

The homeless people on my block are being forced to compete with young professionals for midday squatting rites. The young professionals are attracted by a food service business that sells them gourmet coffee and lunch from a waist-high street-side window. Each working day, they pour onto the block and gather in front of the window [...]

San Francisco Struggles With Chronic Homelessness

San Francisco’s municipal leaders exude considerable pride when they assert that they have removed approximately 8,000 homeless people from the city’s streets during the past six years. Pride is also evident when they discuss the number of homeless people who have been substantially rehabilitated during their watch via municipal assistance.