Guest post by Skylanda: Fifteen days of blogging for health care reform

Echidne has graciously provided several of us guest bloggers a platform on which to speak during these next two weeks, and this is auspicious timing indeed. In my adopted state of New Mexico, the governor has called a special session to force the legislature to start addressing this issue of broadening health coverage; at the end of the month, Barak Obama will accept the nomination for the democratic presidential ticket, bringing new hope - and renewed cynicism - to the health care reform table and the litany of other progressive issues. During these two weeks, my contribution to Echidne’s blog will be a series of posts from this one insider’s perspective - and there are as many insider’s perspectives as there are doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, biotech developers, patients, and the like - on some of the key issues and developments that shape and hinder health care reform in America today.

Times are ripe indeed for a profound push toward reform, as they have been ripe and then fallen short before, time and again. But like an addict who quits their cigarettes fourteen times before the quitting takes, one of these times, reform will take hold. The shape of that reform, the effect it will have on the diversity of issues that shape health in America, its inclusive or exclusive nature - those remain to be seen. Stay tuned.

Very promising, highly recommended.