Wall Street, Main Street, and MS: The Politics of Chronic Disease
Written by Mandy on October 1st, 2008 in In The News, Links, State of Health Care.
The economic and political news we are witness to lately is disheartening on so many levels.
The political mudslinging is ugly and serves only to distract attention from the real issues facing our country. The economic downturn has us deeply concerned about the huge losses to retirement accounts, plummeting home values, and inflation eating away at our stagnant wages. And we are still at war.
All this talk of a deepening recession and economic crisis has me wondering. Can I still carry on about what I consider to be a health care crisis? In the great scheme of things, is multiple sclerosis and its associated financial burden important anymore? Does the enormity of our country’s financial freefall cancel out concerns about MS and other chro…
