How healthcare costs are weakening our economy
Japan spends half per person on healthcare than we do. Europeans spend a little over 50% of what we do. These nations are as healthy or healthier than we are and they cover everyone. This indicates...
View ArticleThe mirage of health care coverage: high deductibles
High deductible insurance policies are like no insurance at all if the holders can't make the deductible up front and avoid needed care under the deductible. We should really combine the uninsured with...
View ArticleWho needs or wants healthcare insurance companies?
The evidence is overwhelming that a basic single payer works in other advanced nations, costs a lot less and is necessary in the U.S. if our system is to survive and cover everyone. There are many...
View ArticleWHY IS AMERICAN HEALTHCARE INFERIOR
We spend twice what the Japanese spend per person for healthcare and close to twice what they spend in Canada and Western Europe. Yet, these nations are as healthy as we are or healthier and they...
View ArticleThe American Dental Disaster
Just about nobody is covered for dental illness and it is a major problem for Americans and our healthcare costs. Read the following short article (the website likes being...
View ArticleBeware of Ebola "experts"
In my 67 years, I have experienced the consequences of "experts". We were led into Vietnam by "experts" who knew a lot about nothing. We were led into Iraq by "experts" proving that Saddam Husein had...
View ArticleHealthcare and the election of 2014
Although the Senate elections got all the media attention. The governor elections show the big picture. The Republicans won 24-10. It is hard to imagine all these Democratic governor candidates being...
View ArticleThe socialism of Sarah Palin
The word “Socialist” is an ambiguous term. To many Republican conservatives anything to the left of anarchy (no government) is “socialist”. On the other extreme there is “socialism” with government...
View ArticlePREVENTING ILLNESS vs THE “FIX IT” HEALTHCARE BUSINESS
The human body is designed to be healthy on its own. If we took care of our bodies as well as we do our motor vehicles and airplanes, we’d have less than half the illness and healthcare expenses than...
View ArticleFar too many stents and heart bypass operations
Insertion of stents in blocked arteries during a heart attack or the beginnings of one saves thousands of lives yearly. But 70 to 90% of stent insertions are done for only narrowing arteries in stable...
View ArticleA High Minimum Wage is Bad Economics
Raising the minimum wage to end poverty and do a little income redistribution seems like a no brainer. There are even calls for $15 hour! After considerable analysis, I was stunned to find the opposite...
View ArticleBen Carson, guns, the Holocaust and tyranny
Ben Carson is sticking to his guns that the Holocaust would have been limited if more guns were available to the victims. This shows his ignorance of both the Holocaust and the low value of small...
View ArticleDonald Trump, Drug Prices and his grasp of reality
Donald Trump said he will cut $300 billion a year from our national drug spending. Given we spend somewhere between $300 and $400 billion per year on drugs, that’s quite a savings! Drugs might become...
View ArticleThe VA is actually good socialized medicine
The media and especially Republican conservative ideologues are always putting the VA under a microscope looking for faults. It needs to be improved, but it is far better than presented. If the media...
View ArticleDonald Trump's political snake oil
Get yours while supplies last. Extremists and Republicans are buying and gulping it down big time. More about Trump
View ArticleTrump's sanity: The most important issue in American history.
Mayor Bloomberg said Clinton is the only “sane” candidate. Donald Trump proved him right immediately by saying he wanted to hit “the little guy” so hard it would make his head spin.They can argue...
View ArticleTrump's racism: "beyond any reasonable doubt"
While researching Donald Trump, for the web site Spotlightontrump.com, I came upon this hate propaganda tweeted by Donald Trump (on Politifact.com web site). It is all lies of the type that Joseph...
View ArticleTrump, the mind of a rapist?
"And when you're a star they let you do it," Trump continued. "You can do anything. ... Grab them by the p---y. You can do anything." Not much attention has been given to the ominous rape accusations...
View ArticleThe television is and has been rigged for Trump
In spite of his whining about everything being rigged against him, television has made Trump. Politifact.com studied and rated all of Trump’s statements from the campaigns. They found him lying 70% of...
View ArticleDumpcare
Let's call it what it is "Dumpcare", that is, dump those with preexisting conditions into expensive probably unaffordable high risk pool insurance dumpsters for no insurance.The average person doesn't...
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