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Entries Tagged ‘healthcare’

Death!

I can actually agree with this… Thinking about death can actually be a good thing. An awareness of mortality can improve physical health and help us re-prioritize our goals and values, according to a new analysis of recent scientific studies. Even non-conscious thinking about death — say walking by a cemetery — could prompt positive [...]

You Didn’t Get Mad

This was posted on the Being Liberal Facebook page. I hope it’s ok to re-print here, because it’s worthy… You didn’t get mad when we spent over 800 billion (and counting) on said illegal war. You didn’t get mad when Bush borrowed more money from foreign sources than the previous 42 Presidents combined. You didn’t [...]

The Healthcare Problem

No, this isn’t about the looming defeat of the ACA by the conservative supreme court which will slow down any hope of meaningful reform of the health “industry” in the US. This is about me. As everyone here knows (see here, here, here and here) I’ve had some healthcare issues this year. As a result, [...]

The Selective “War on Religion”

I’ve been watching this latest front in the GOP’s war on Women with much interest. As a former catholic, it makes me a bit happy to see them so openly marginalized in their misogynistic beliefs and attitudes. Losing this front is not an option for them, as it’s one of the last bastions of tyranny that [...]

The Danger of Pseudoscience

A very important article… Think about the billions that are being wasted on useless or even harmful medical interventions because the science of medicine is being compromised, by clever marketing, corporate greed, by rank pseudoscience, by the infiltration of sectarian belief systems into what should be a science-based endeavor. …read the rest.