Linkagogo Archive 1: Senate

Stephen Hill Linkography: Judicial Reform

Building a Balanced Supreme Court: Changing the Rules to Prevent Partisan Domination on the Bench
Article: 17 May 2010 - New York Daily News. Oftentimes, American-style partisanship results in Republicans and Democrats fighting like two mindless gamecocks in the ring. Well, take your seats, because nothing brings out this combative behavior more than a Supreme Court nomination.

Steven Hill on Federal Judges, Lifetime Appointment and a Better Supreme Court

Blog: posted Progressive Advocacy - 25 August 2005. Hill has a well-researched op-ed on lifetime appointment of federal judges. He calls for term limits, mandatory retirement ages, higher confirmation thresholds to require bipartisan appointments and multiple appointment institutions to create a more representative and somewhat counter-intuitively, less partisan judiciary.

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Stephen Hill Linkography: Health Care Reform

Can Obama Bypass Republicans on Health?

Article: 22 February 2010 at NYTimes.com. By using reconciliation, President Obama will return the Senate to the original vision of the founders. And he will pass health care legislation that will allow millions of fellow Americans to enjoy a level of health care security that the president and the senators themselves already enjoy.

Healthcare Tests the Senate’s Credibility
Article: 30 November 2009 - Financial Times.
America’s healthcare debate has been like a tennis match, bouncing from the Senate to the House of Representatives and back again. Now it is back in the Senate, as the US tries to end its status as the only advanced economy without universal healthcare for its people.

There's No Place Like Europe: Steven Hill on Medical House Calls, Multiparty Politics, and Other American Fantasies
Interview: Monday 18 October 2010 - by Alissa Bohling for Truthout.
During this lengthy interview Hill touched on the kind of support Europeans have that Americans don't have. He gave this example: "An American friend of mine living in Toulouse France got a hornet sting when I was visiting her. She calls up her doctor and, 20 minutes later, there's the French doctor with his little black bag. What does that feel like to a person, to know that you have that kind of access to the support that you need?"

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Stephen Hill Linkography: Health Care Solutions

What Obama Can Learn from European Health Care (Part I)
Article: 3 March 2009 - The Globalist. Health care related inefficiencies are continuing to hurt American workers and businesses -- and increasingly will hurt U.S. competitiveness in the global economy. President Barack Obama, to his credit, is doing what he can in difficult times to extend health care coverage to some of the 47 million Americans currently lacking it. Recently he signed legislation to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which will provide subsidized health care to up to four million mostly low-income children.

What Obama Can Learn from European Health Care (Part II) Article: 4 March 2009 - The Globalist. More pointers on what the U.S. healthcare system could take from Europe.

Climate Change, Health, Economy: Three European Tips For Obama
Article: 19 January 2009 - cafebabel.com: The European Magazine. In France and Germany service fees are negotiated between representatives of the healthcare professions, the government, patient consumer representatives and the private non-profit insurance companies. Like in the American system for Medicare, together they establish a national agreement for treatment procedures, fee structures and rate ceilings. These prevent the soaring health care costs that have plagued American businesses.

Don't Want Swine Flu with Lunch? Then Offer Paid Sick Leave
Posted: 26 June 2009 - Huffington Post. Who could be opposed to policy as sensible as making it possible for workers to stay home when they are sick? Business owners, that's who. Owners of small companies argue that forcing them to offer paid sick days would be a costly mandate, especially at a time when businesses already are coping with a struggling economy. Candidate Barack Obama voiced strong support for legislation giving all American workers paid sick leave. But President Obama has made a habit of backtracking on things he said on the campaign trail.

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Stephen Hill Linkography: NLRB Reform

Enable Choice on Labor Unions
Special article by Steven Hill and Dmitri Iglitzin : 20 March 2007 – in the Washington Post’s column - Think Tank Town. The top priority of pro-labor members of the United States Congress is passage of the employee Freedom of Choice Act, a law that would make it easier for workers to organize a union in their workplace and negotiate a contract with their employer. This legislation has been the subject of vigorous public debate among labor organizations and business lobbyists, yet it only scratches the surface of a badly needed overhaul of U.S. labor law.

Time For a Tex-Mex Marshall Plan
Article: 23 April 2006 – Washington Post. The bold yet carefully planned E.U. approach to worker migration suggests the direction that policy between

the United States and Mexico should take. To deal
with the situation, the leaders
of the European Union wisely created policies for fostering regional economic and political integration that make efforts
such as the North American Free Trade Agreement look timid and half-hearted by comparison. Increasingly the demands of the global economy will push North American regional integration out of the realm of a shadow economy and flawed free trade agreements.

Look Who's Acting Like the Microsoft of Politics: This Monopoly's Not Even Debatable
Article by Steven Hill & Rob Richie: 11 February 2000 – Chicago Tribune. For the past year we have watched the U.S. government's attempt to apply anti-monopoly laws to the business practices of Microsoft. Ever since the Sherman Antitrust Act was passed a century ago, it has been widely accepted that domination of a market by a handful of private corporations can be bad for business, bad for consumers and bad for the nation.

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