Mother’s Day and Rochelle Rubin

I’ve been quietly and lightly dreading this day for a while. Quietly, both because I’ve been on holiday—Yanks, that means vacation in, at least, Europe and the British Isles—and because dwelling on the matter hardly honors my “get on with it” mom. And lightly? For the same reasons.

So I got up early today, with lots to do before I return to work after being out of the office for 10 days. Plenty of busy also keeps the mind occupied. (As for jet lag, I saw a friend at Whole Foods an hour ago. “I thought you were in London,” says he. “Back since yesterday afternoon,” I shared. Surprised, was he.)

Without conscious effort, my

More on Health Care … and We v. Me-I

I got into it with a guy I don’t know the other evening on Facebook about Obamacare. (We have a few mutual friends.) I shouldn’t have, but I do so many things I shouldn’t; falling into an FB encounter of the less than kind sort falls outside my top 10.

A mutual friend posted about her insurance frustrations. This fellow labeled himself—Conservative—and expressed his “HOPE [that] the GOP does not screw this up,” referring to House passage of the bill on Tuesday. I wrote:

They already have. The insurance markets don’t like uncertainty, and this crew just created a boatload of it earlier today.

He went off on Obamacare. (Non-sequitur.) I

Mo Brooks, TRUMPcare, and the Big Eff You

Representative Morris Jackson Brooks, Jr. (R-Ala.), aka Mo Brooks, offered up more stupid on health care the other day. Defending and advocating for Trumpcare—I assume the president likes the appellation, and likes it better when he sees TRUMPcare—Congressman Brooks said:

It will allow insurance companies to require people who have higher health care costs to contribute more to the insurance pool that helps offset all these costs, thereby reducing the cost to those people who lead good lives, they’re healthy, they’ve done the things to keep their bodies healthy. And right now, those are the people who have done things the right way that are seeing their costs skyrocketing.

So what’s going