Simon Kapenda - Articles

Economic 101 for the Health Care Reform With a Public Option

In the end, you may end up paying as little as $25 each month, in health insurance premium, for quality healthcare, and if you end up getting sick, for whatever the case might be, you'll never have to suffer because of additional out of pocket money you would need to pay for your medical care. And you certainly won't have to go broke just because you're sick, and you won't have to hurt or even die, just because you don't have health insurance. Read

By: Simon Kapenda | 04/10/2009 | Economics

What is Not Happening Inside the White House's Situation Room for the War in Afghanistan?

No weapons of any kind alone will ever help bring peace and stability to Afghanistan. Read

By: Simon Kapenda | 02/10/2009 | Politics

Reinstituting a Reformed Welfare-to-work Program

The current U.S. Welfare system needs to have a complete overhaul, not only to provide better programs for those who really need it, but to help close some of the loopholes currently ravaging the program. Some people, like Stephanie and her friend Maria, who currently work at the Columbus Port International Airport, have a familiar scheme they use to cheat the system. Read

By: Simon Kapenda | 02/06/2008 | Economics

Who’s Killing All the Parents, Kids Ask?

Most sick people when they walk the long distance to go to collect their daily HIV dozes of medicines, most of them don’t even make it back. They die on the way to the clinics because it takes them up to 3 days to get there by foot. And when they don’t return home, the kids ask, who’s taking away all of our parents? Who’s killing our parents? Doesn’t God love us anymore? Why has God forsaken us? Read

By: Simon Kapenda | 22/10/2007 | News & Society