"Electronic Voting"

A Major Improvement

These computerized voting systems are easy to use. Among their several advantages, DREs, make it impossible for a voter to make more than one choice in a given race. Unlike other voting systems, DREs can be made fully accessible to disable persons, including those who are visually impaired. Those DREs that do not have a paper trail capacity can either be modified to do so or replaced. E-voting virtually eliminates that problem.

Beware of Electronic Voting

Many reputable computer scientists see a number of serious flaws in the DREs currently available. Several of them are most concerned about source code, the language of the software. Many also worry about the transmission of voter totals to central locations. Those results are not usually sent via the Internet. They may be transmitted by a direct modem connection, however, and intercepted by a hacker.

Exploring the Issues

1. Several of them are most concerned about source code, the language of the software. It is altogether possible, they say, that those who program a system, or hackers who gain access to it, can mainpulate the outcome of an election.

"Health Care Reform"

A Free-Market Solution

The root of our health care crisis is runaway spending. Any attempt by government to extend health insurance in its current form to those without coverage will only make matters worse. High spending makes insurances more expensive, so fewer workers can afford it. People could make deposits into tax-free Medical Savings Accounts(MSAs) to pay for expenses. Affordable insurances would still cover costs of catastrophic illness.

Let Government Provide

Government should act immediately to meet the nation's health care crisis. High-quality health care should be a right, not a privilege. All Americans should have access to government-funded health care. Medicare should be extended to cover every American. Our current system links health care to jobs.

Exploring the Issues

1. The Federal Government is the only institution big enough to provide inexpensive, effective health care to all citizens, working or unemployed.
2. Employers, who currently must pay rising insurance costs for their workes, could make deposits to employees' MSA accounts instead.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/senate-begins-tackling-health-bill/?scp=9&sq=health%20care&st=cse