Robert L. Terrell

Presidential Campaigns and Social Progress

One of the most wonderful things about presidential campaigns is their capacity to concentrate public awareness of an issue in such an acute manner, that unique opportunities for significant progress can be achieved on a national scale.
Such a moment may have arrived this week in the form of the current controversy engendered by Hilary Rosen’s [...]

Playing With Fire: US Elites and Our Deteriorating Social Contract

The conservative elites who exercise definitive control over economic and political affairs here in the United States may well be dangerously overplaying their hand.
Apparently uncaring and oblivious to the needs of their less fortunate counterparts huddled far below them in the working classes, they are engaged in a full scale assault on the nation’s [...]

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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 [...]