Step therapy puts patients in danger
When a person is suffering from a serious disease such as cancer, he or she should have the peace of mind to be able to work with a health care provider to make potentially life-saving decisions. These...
View ArticleBlight erodes property value in Lansingburgh
Last year, my daughter, a single, 30-something professional woman, purchased her first home. She bought it in Lansingburgh. Her house is a small, charming clapboard structure, several decades old, with...
View ArticleDoctor a capable speaker, educator
It was with great interest that I read the article “Side effects of pay issue,” July 24, and editorial “Drug cash questionable,” July 27, casting aspersions on Dr. Robert Busch and his frequent role as...
View ArticleTrump blather successor to TV’s Archie Bunker
Donald Trump is not new. He was first seen in an earlier form as the character Archie Bunker in the 1970s sitcom “All In the Family.” Bunkerites loved to hear Archie spew what were early Trumpistic...
View ArticleVote for Clinton or risk Trump victory
I have been a strong supporter of Bernie Sanders throughout the primary campaigns, but I will most certainly vote for Hillary Clinton in November. My reason is quite simple: To vote for any other...
View ArticleEpiPens just a symptom
The company that makes EpiPens certainly deserves public scorn for its avaricious price hike, but the blame isn’t Mylan’s alone. The same Congress that professes to abhor this exploitative greed shares...
View ArticleOur president is not omnipotent
Within two months, the citizens of the United States will cast a vote for president. We are being told the two major-party candidates will create jobs, beat ISIS, stop illegal immigration, provide...
View ArticleSea World cares about its orcas
The letter “Freedom makes orcas’ lives better,” Sept. 5, praised SeaWorld for the bold decision it took earlier this year to announce the end of its orca breeding program and theatrical orca shows. It...
View ArticleFix, not ax, Obamacare
Our opinion: Despite significant successes, the Affordable Care Act is facing a crisis. The recalcitrant Congress must ends its refusal to make necessary changes. The Affordable Care Act is facing its...
View ArticleFund living wage for care workers
As a parent of an adult child with severe intellectual and developmental disabilities, I write as a supporter of the #bFair2DirectCare coalition’s “30 Days to Better Pay” campaign. It calls for...
View ArticlePETA deceives public on circus
Once again, the animal rights extremists at PETA are trying to deceive the public and distort Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s record of animal care. Let’s set the record straight. PETA...
View ArticleAnimals’ welfare at heart of report
Stephen Payne’s letter defending Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s Circus and his dismissal of my experience are diversionary tactics designed to draw attention away from facts (“PETA deceives...
View ArticleNow, channel that anger
Protesters angry at the election of Donald Trump marched up Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue to the Trump Tower, chanting “Not my president.” Crowds in Denver, Chicago and Los Angeles and other cities also...
View ArticlePipeline change creates a hazard
Having been unsuccessful in its original plan to replace the existing pipeline running under the Hudson River, Spectra Energy has discarded its initial strategy and instead connected the new 42-inch...
View ArticleSome lessons of Trump U
Donald Trump, the president-elect, promised in his campaign that Americans would start winning again, and so they have – 6,000 of them, in a settlement with, of all people, Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump, who...
View ArticleA single health solution
An American family that needs to keep EpiPens on hand because a member of the household is prone to severe allergic reactions to food or bee stings has little choice but to pay the more than $600 cost...
View ArticleA vow to rebound from vote result
Probably, like so many other people, the results of this election are not what we hoped and wished for our country. And so now, my challenge is how to go forward. It will take me days to process my...
View ArticleStep therapy bill would hurt quality of care
Patients, doctors and health plans can go back and forth – and have on the pages of this paper – on whether Gov. Andrew Cuomo should sign legislation (S.3419-C) to limit health plans’ use of step...
View ArticleTrump presidency would endanger our republic
Thanks to the Times Union Editorial Board for having the courage to write an editorial urging the Electoral College not to make Donald Trump president of the United States. Those of us who care about...
View ArticleMentally ill need housing options
The editorial “Mentally ill, on their own,” Dec. 7, described perfectly the need for various housing options for people with serious mental illness who often need supportive services regardless of...
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