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People often argue that universal care would be too expensive, but considering that the cost to insure my family per year (partially paid by my employer) is almost $15,000, you could double what what most Americans pay in Federal taxes and they'd still come out ahead. The healthcare system doesn't need tweaking; it needs FDR-style, wholesale reorganization.

It's interesting how starting a family has really changed what are the important issues to me, policy-wise.

I bought an organic crib mattress, and a number of other things, from here: http://www.tinybirdsorganics.com/

The website isn't much to look at, but they were friendly, fast, and a bit cheaper than other websites, and definitely cheaper than stores. After shopping around, I got the impression that there are really only a couple organic crib mattress manufacturers (the product descriptions tend to be identical) so I shopped by price.

FYI: I bought an organic mattress not because of allergies, but because they don't have flame retardants (wool is naturally flame retardant). Flame retardants are nasty chemicals (most of them are banned in the EC) and I make the baby put out his smokes before bed, anyway.