Toastmasters

The Need for Universal Health Care in the U.S.

by Larry on October 26, 2010

in Health Care

This is the text of a speech I recently delivered at my Toastmasters group. * * * * * Plenty of terms were bandied about in the recent discussions of health care reform, including “universal health care.” Universal health care simply means that everyone in a society is entitled to health care. The same way [...]

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A Hard Look at America’s Barbaric Health-Care System

by Larry on July 22, 2010

in Health Care

This is the text of a speech I delivered at my Toastmasters group today. I have looked for a long time for a succinct description of the problems with our health-care system, couldn’t find one, and so I wrote this. It’s based in large part on T.R. Reid’s book, The Healing of America, but is [...]

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