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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

  • Sick of my insurance $ going to Chiropractors and Facials

    One of the reasons our health care costs have skyrocketed is b/c people have successfully forced health insurance to pay for useless (and often dangerous) ''care'' like Chiropracty. They aren't doctors and they have no proof of their techniques working. There have been studies confirming that things like acupuncture and other holistic methods are ...
    Posted to Chatterbox by Callie1978 on April 20, 2009

  • ER reform ideas

    Even if it were legal for ERs to turn away non emergency patients, for a practical matter, they wouldn't. The risk of a patient seeming to have a non emergency complaint and then dieing before seeing a physician and the potential malpractice suits (and news stories) is one hell of a deterent. Even if it were a policy in the ER, and there were no ...
    Posted to Medical Examiner by pachessnut on September 16, 2008

  • War on Smoking

    Feel free to disagree with me, but I feel that the country is sliding, very quickly, into a man-made safety net. Germ-phobia, politcally correctness, spanking, smoking, drugs, drinking, I think this is all going a bit too far! For thousands of years, our ancestors have lived with germs, smoked tobacco or other herbs and spices, made alcohol and ...
    Posted to Human Nature by melenajade on August 27, 2007

  • Second-Hand Smoke

    Few Points from a nurse of 8 years: In my 8 year tenure as a nurse, we have never had one patient treated, died etc. from second-hand smoke. People ARE NOT allergic to smoke. An allergic reaction is what happens when you touch poison oak. Sneezing is not an allergic reaction. Our eyes water and sting when we slice onions. It would be ...
    Posted to Human Nature by djjamz34 on August 27, 2007