health care issues

Think of the costs illness and injury bring to our society. Ambulances, EMTs, nurses, doctors, lifeflights, clinics, hospitals and all those drugs. Now think of our present debt problems within the government. What if, instead of treating the injured and the sick we merely transported them to...

We'll start with the cons, because the only items I can think of are: 1. A perceived increase in taxation to pay for it. Of course, if you don't have to pay for expensive private medical insurance or your employer doesn't have to pay it on your behalf and can pass that money on to you as a...

Came across this interesting Fox News piece praising Israel for its contributions to medical science and the fact that it is a world leader in various medical techniques: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/09/21/remember-mr-president-israel-is-world-leader-in-medicine/ But wait a minute...

I ask this in earnest as I have such a large personal stake in the matter. Maybe some of you do too. I know that's why most of my threads in this subforum have been about it. As you all know no private health insurance company would ever cover me. From my current point of view the only way I...

Greer's latest piece in his "Salvage" series, this time he takes on Western Healthcare. His condensed points Western medicine and alternative medicine are on a pointless ideological battle with one another, where both have merits. Western medicine causes issues, such as the death of his...

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gsxBCX_xWFzdkHQ7BkxsyA4NEY5A?docId=00c482f15d21430fbd4850071d6baac3 I'm no fan of Chavez, but I have watched family members die from cancer and while I admire his optimism, I would expect that at the very least, he will be unable to continue...

That is what part of this article claims: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-health9feb09,0,7947137.story I am a bit skeptical of this claim. Anyone who knows more about this, than I do, care to comment?

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October was breast cancer awareness month. Philadelphia had some of its sky scrapers tinted with pink light and the ribbons are everyone. Breast cancer kills 44,000 people a year. This is, of course, a terrible loss but sometimes I wonder why some diseases get so much attention while others...

LOS ANGELES — Overburdened by the uninsured and overwhelmed by illegal immigration, public health care in Los Angeles is on life support. Sixty percent of the county's uninsured patients are not U.S. citizens. More than half are here illegally. About 2 million undocumented aliens in Los...

from here: http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/10/21/coma.woman/index.html [/B] The same thing happened to a man and his vegetative mother in Virginia some years ago. And not to Bash Republicans, but it was another republican Governor who attempted to stop the man from letting his relative die. Why...