Bad 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...
Healthcare
Cancer 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...
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Mental-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...
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Hawaiian 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...
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Socialized 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...
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Examining Healthcare
Americans who want national healthcare should examine the results where it has already been tried. ...
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Comparing Cures
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a federal agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, has made available online a...
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Bush Administration Rule Riles Abortion Advocates
The Bush administration plans to enforce a regulation that will prevent healthcare workers who object to abortion from being forced to perform abortion-related...
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Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Report Psychological Problems
A Rand Corporation report indicates that 18.5 percent of current and former U.S. Iraq and Afghanistan veterans recently surveyed reported symptoms of depression...
Read moreBehavior Worth Medicating?
Government and psychiatry join forces to make children take powerful drugs, even against their parents' wishes. ...
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The New Healthcare System
Former Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy Thompson, who served in the Bush administration’s first term, recently joined the board of directors...
Read moreUnleashing the Killer Pill
RU-486, the abortion pill, is a dangerous drug that not only kills the unborn infant but endangers the mother’s life and health as...
Read moreFree Market Medicine
For more than a quarter century, Washington has waged a high-profile "war" on cancer at a cost to taxpayers of some $30 billion....
Read moreFluoridation Revisited
The case for compulsory fluoridation of the water supply is very flimsy, and the case against fluoridation is overwhelming. ...
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