Well, it looks like health care, recently pronounced on the road to wellville, if not entirely hale and hearty, is once again limping around on the US political stage. (Remember those 90s-era editorial hosannas to the brave new world of managed care and the free-market discipline it would impose on runaway health care costs? I do. Good times, good times.)

Because of its timeliness, and because my friends back in the US display a surprising fascination with Stories From the Land of Single Payer, I thought I’d share with Correntians my mundane experience with our adoptive country’s health delivery system.  Read more 

Maybe the hippies were right:

Calgary — Forget the stereotype about dopey potheads. It seems marijuana could be good for your brain….  Read more