Healthcare
Swine Flu: Cure Worse Than the Disease
Every person with an ounce of common sense, and an equal amount of compassion for his fellow human beings, takes public health threats...
Swine Flu Battle Called “Encouraging”
Though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta said on May 4 that the virus it now officially designates as "novel...
Read moreSwine Flu Outbreak May Be Overblown
While it is still too early to claim that the swine flu outbreak is being overblown, events are beginning to suggest that may...
Read moreCases of Swine Flu Inch Up
Information posted on the website of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control on April 28 confirmed a total of 64 human cases of...
Read moreWorld Unnerved by Spread of Swine Flu
The world watched warily on April 27, as cases of swine flu that first emerged in Mexico in recent weeks in near-epidemic proportions...
Read moreTaking “Absolutely Not” for an Answer on Veterans’ Healthcare
In early March, veterans’ groups got wind of a plan by the Obama administration to charge veterans’ private health insurance companies for service-related...
Read moreSCHIP of State
President Obama and most of the press cheered the passage of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, but can SCHIP (pronounced "ship") stay...
Read moreStay Healthy: Government Healthcare May Be Coming
Government-improved healthcare will mean ailing sickness care because socialized medicine can't compete with free-market alternatives. ...
Read moreBad Economics & Medicine
ITEM: In an article entitled "5 Myths About Our Ailing Health-Care System" in the Washington Post for November 23, 2008, Shannon Brownlee and...
Read moreCancer Researchers Make Breakthrough
New research, published in the medical journal Nature, suggests that scientists have for the first time come to a better and more thorough...
Read moreMental-health Parity’s Poison Pill
ITEM: The New York Times for October 6 reported: "More than one-third of all Americans will soon receive better insurance coverage for mental...
Read moreHawaiian Healthcare Holdup
Seven months after instituting the only state child universal healthcare program in the country, Hawaii is dropping the plan. According to an AP...
Read moreSocialized Medicine Gets Court Approval in San Francisco
A federal appeals court recently upheld a San Francisco ruling requiring employers to either offer healthcare coverage to their employees or fund a...
Read moreExamining Healthcare
Americans who want national healthcare should examine the results where it has already been tried. ...
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