Tag Archives: Medicare

Paul Ryan: No Country for Old Men

By Robin Bates | Published: September 25, 2012

Paul Ryan’s speech before AARP brings to mind the generational conflict described in Samuel Johnson’s “Rasselas.”

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Medicare Politics and Gullible Oysters

By Robin Bates | Published: August 23, 2012

Like the oysters in “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” Americans are being lied to about GOP plans for Medicare.

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Tweedledum, Tweedledee, and Medi(s)care

By Robin Bates | Published: May 31, 2011

I, however, find all the posturing over Medicare depressing. When the Democrats respond with their own scare tactics, they just become Tweedledee to the Republicans’ Tweedledum.

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King Lear and Medicare Politics

By Robin Bates | Published: April 20, 2011

In the 2010 elections, seniors over 65 voted overwhelmingly Republican, perhaps in response to perceived threats to Medicare. Democrats may respond in kind in the upcoming election. In short, a lot of electoral politics involves firing up seniors. Frightened and angry old people can do a lot of damage. Which brings us to King Lear.

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Reaching Out to the Needy in Tough Times

By Robin Bates | Published: April 18, 2011

Yet having nothing, the Joads still share. In the final scene of The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck taps into the legend of “Roman Charity” where a daughter breastfeeds her starving father. In this case, however, Rose of Sharon feeds a starving stranger. A new human family is rising out of the ashes of the old.

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