31st May 2007
Designers Blogging What Will They Think of Next?
Those designers… As if they didn’t already have a major outlet to display their creativity… The grapevine is sweltering with the news that Donna Karan is The Huffington Post’s newest blogger. Maybe her international line of clothing wanted by nearly everyone is just not enough of a canvas to paint her thoughts.
Why should it be?
In her first set of blog posts she talks about something close to her heart other than designing, and why not? Health care and it’s dramatic state of disrepair can use an overhaul, it doesn’t take a fashion blogger like myself or designer-cum-blogger like Ms. Karan to say so. I actually went to the emergency room two months ago (I felt dizzy) and got a whopping $2700 bill. My insurance paid $2650 dollars of that. Come to find out it was just bad sushi.
Those in hospitals way longer are looking at bills way higher. So Ms. Karan’s posts on health care seem ever more appropriate. One of her posts entitled Making Health Care More Caring addresses the coldness (at times) of the health care system and whether the thoughts, wants, needs of those who are ill matter. I’ll Cliff’s Notes it for you, she believes it does, and I agree.
I’ll keep reading, maybe she’ll tell why she brought the bodysuit back for Fall.
Posted by Eva @ 5:42 am
May 31st, 2007 at 6:49 am
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June 1st, 2007 at 12:23 am
I’m assuming you live in the states
I’ve been fortunate to be from canada and to have free health care and not have to worry about insruance or anything like that when I moved to australia (for a year, still going) and I had to start paying for that sort of stuff it was a total shock
wow designers blogging, never heard of it! I guess everyone is on the internet these days!
June 19th, 2007 at 6:25 am
I have to agree with Jen..I’m a Canadian now living in the US, and before you talk about integrated healing (I”m all for it), Americans need to provide universal health care. I wonder if Ms. Karan has ever stood in line in a pharmacy and watched an elderly person say they can only afford medicine for them OR their spouse, or sat in an ER as a young couple with their young child debating how they’ll pay for their child’s broken arm.
Socialized medicine is flawed, no doubt. But it’s better than the alternative.
And yes, I paid for the elderly man’s, and his wife’s medication. And I would gladly pay higher taxes to ensure that elderly man did not have the same problem month after month.