Reid Resurrects Public Option
Even after the healthcare bill was passed into law, the public option is not going away. In fact, it is on its way,...
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Biological Psychiatry – Following the Money
This final installment in the series focuses on the financial sleights-of-hand that serve both to feather the psychiatric nest and promote legislation that...
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Thanks to ObamaCare, Some Kids Won’t Have Health Insurance
The unintended consequences of ObamaCare continue to pile up. The latest is that some insurance companies are now refusing to write new policies...
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Did Pro-Lifers Err in Their Assertions of ObamaCare Abortion Funding?
On July 19 The New American reported that under ObamaCare the federal government has begun funding abortions through state high-risk insurance pools. Pennsylvania...
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Psychiatry’s Brave New World
After some 40 years of psychiatry-based "parenting," free societies are experiencing behaviors by out-of-control children virtually unknown in the 1950s — first-graders biting and...
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Pet Health Care in California
The government seems intent upon forcing itself into our own health issues, rather like in 1984, wherein the slaves of Oceania were compelled...
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Federal Medical Snooping — and How to Stop It
The 2009 economic stimulus package has largely been a bust. However, one sector of the economy that should be seeing robust growth is...
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White House Changes Story on Individual Mandate
The Obama administration continues to show itself as a master of the spin. During the heavy campaign to promote the healthcare law, President...
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Another Study Finds Link Between Abortion and Breast Cancer
Researchers in Sri Lanka have found what they say is a link between abortion and breast cancer. According to the study conducted by...
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A Breakthrough for Schizophrenia? Part II – Medicalizing and Treating Thought Disorders
Part I of this series opened with a recent study on schizophrenia that has sparked renewed controversy on the legitimacy of pre-screening for...
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U.S. Army Reports Record Suicides
On July 15 the U.S. Army reported 32 confirmed or suspected suicides among its troops in June, the highest number in a single...
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ObamaCare Abortion Funding Has Begun
So much for President Obama’s executive order banning federal funding of abortions under ObamaCare. Two states, Pennsylvania and Maryland, have now accepted federal...
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A Friendly Chat With the First Nanny
Every First Lady, it seems, has to have a cause. Lady Bird Johnson had her beautification program. Nancy Reagan had “Just Say No”...
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Avandia: A Case Study in Big Pharma-FDA Collusion
Pharmaceutical manufacturer SmithKline Beecham, now GlaxoSmithKline, found in a 1999 study that its diabetes medicine, Avandia, posed serious heart attack risks — then...
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The Goal Is Rationed Care
Item: “Only a few months after the heated battles on Capitol Hill,” said Time for June 14, “it must have been quite a...
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