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  • Conservative Libertarians for Health Reform!

    Hey, if the insurance companies are supporting it, why not? In any case, with the Republicans turning the debate over health care reform into a Bugs-and-Daffy ''Duck season! Rabbit season!'' argument of perpetual naysaying, a lot of important messages aren't getting across. Case in point? A strong public health insurance option is a ...
    Posted to Prescriptions by The Limitarian on October 14, 2009

  • Why US doctors are well paid.

    First of all, a correction to the UK: it's not free unless you come from a low income family, otherwise you pay in the realms of over three thousand pounds a year, available as a student loan. Currently the precise figure for this year is 5374 in US dollars. The fifth or sixth final year is free and paid for by the National Health Service. ...
    Posted to Prescriptions by Bhetti on September 10, 2009

  • Another Approach...

    Why don't they start from the other end and eliminate farm subsidies for commodity corn that make soda and fast foods so affordable in the first place? By ending the government intervention artificially deflating these prices, we might not need government to artificially inflate them. The effects on public health and on federal coffers would ...
    Posted to Human Nature by jerpeck on April 10, 2009

  • Gupta will make a good Surgeon General

    I think the Surgeon General's office is a lot about education and I believe Dr.Gupta is already doing his part to educate the country on health and health care issues. I hope he gets the job and we see more of him than we have seen of Rear Adm. Steven K. Galson, M.D., M.P.H. I don't think it's Adm. Galson's fault we don't hear from him more, I ...
    Posted to Television by srqpix on January 8, 2009