Sick Around the World… How Does America Compare? (Watch Frontline Video)
What the US can learn from other nations about how to run health care. GIVEN THE intent of President Obama and (most) Democrats in Congress to revamp America’s health care system, this is a good time to compare the U.S. system to the health care offered by other advanced nations to their citizens.
Continue readingNewsweek’s Ms. Begley’s Five Health Care Lies
DID YOU read the one that shouts, via a chain email, that under the proposed health care reform, the Federal Government will have electronic access to everyone’s bank account? Like the strident assertion about “pulling the plug on Granny”, this is scary stuff. You both get robbed blind and lose a relative!
Continue readingDebunking Health Care Mythmaking with Healthcare Journalist J.R. Reid
MYTHS ARE an intriguing subject. Some are born of some long-ago purported truth that over time gets embellished as each subsequent truth-bearer who, by dint of philosophy, group affiliation or financial incentive, is compelled to thrust the Righteous Truth Banner higher and higher for all to see the resplendent truth mythologized.
Continue reading“How To Get Fat without Really Trying”
A Summary of the late Peter Jennings’ TV Special, along with video of How To Get Fat Without Really Trying. Subsidies and Marketing Ain’t So Good For Us WITH THE strikingly voluble debate raging over the state of the American health system, I thought it would be a good time to go back seven years […]
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