The 1 Question Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum Should Ask Tonight.

Mike Magee This evening, the Republican Party will sponsor their first Primary Debate. It will be historic in featuring the absence of their lead contender for the 2024 Presidential campaign, a candidate who appears committed to the destruction of his own political party Events over the past year clearly have confirmed that we are a […]

Facts Matter And Truth Doesn’t Hurt.

Mike Magee If you wanted to create a motto for the summer of 2023 – one that would stand the test of time from the medical exam rooms of Ohio to the gilded bathrooms of Mar-a-lago – it would have to be Jack Smith’s “Facts matter!” If that is true on a national scale, it […]

The Danger to Our Democracy in Moving Nurses and Doctors From The Front Line.

Mike Magee The 4.2 million registered nurses and 1 million doctors in America who are agents of democracy are being sidelined, with a noticeable negative impact on the health of our representative democracy. As such, we must be careful how we select, train, and utilize this resource, and take care to expand rather than diminish […]

Nurses and Doctors: Defenders of Democracy.

Mike Magee My recent post, featuring North Carolina’s K-12 lesson plan on “The Rule of Law,” broke records for traffic, but drew this admonishment from one subscriber, “This is a strange post for a health care blog.” Since focusing on the social science of Medicine in the 2000 in Philadelphia, it has been an uphill […]

“If Men Were Angels…” American Democracy Will Pass This Stress Test.

Mike Magee As we enter a new and potentially historic week, with a former President doing his best to reignite a Civil War in our nation, we do well to take a breath and reread James Madison’s words from Federalist No. 51. But first, a few words of history. When it came to checks and […]

First, Extirpate Trump. Then Begin the Nation Anew With Health.

Mike Magee “The Right to Health Care and the U.S. Constitution.” On the surface, it sounds like a straight forward topic – a simple presentation. But a gentle scratch at the surface reveals a controversy that literally dates back 250 years and more. Is it a “right”, a “privilege”, or simply a “necessity?” I’m not a […]

We must be “Declaration of Independence Walking.”

Mike Magee In the shadow of last week’s Presidential Impeachment hearings, I have been searching for a silver lining. I tell myself it is helpful our Democracy is being stress tested and our Constitutional weaknesses revealed so that we might take corrective actions in the future. I recognize that this is not Trump’s fault alone […]

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