Go ahead. Everyone who doesn’t really know the meaning of the word, shout the word socialism at the top of your lungs. Come on, get it over with because, whatever the untutored may think, the subject of this post has nothing whatsoever to do with that awful word.
Anyone thinking that national healthcare is somehow related [...]

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Once again lobbyists for the health insurance industry have gotten their way.
It is impossible to miss or ignore all of the commercials on television touting the Medicare plus plans. They go by many different names but are basically plans that claim to offer seniors more services than traditional Medicare plans. They usually offer some dental [...]

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Drug companies claim they test their products. Sometimes that may be true. For psychopharmaceuticals it is a baldfaced lie.
You want to paint your living room. You can’t decide between beige and blue. One way to make up your mind would be to apply a few strokes of beige on one wall and a few strokes [...]

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There is a ‘War on Drugs,’ street drugs, that is. There is another drug war. The later one is against American citizens.
Isn’t it wonderful that we have a war on drugs? While this eminently unsuccessful war against street drugs has embarrassed our country for decades, prescription drugs kill three times as many people.

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Having been treated by at least 28 physicians and surgeons in the past three to four years, the subject is close to my heart, and my spine, and my artificial hip, and, and, and. Some are absolutely wonderful but 50 percent of all medical students were graduated in the lower half of their class. Not [...]

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Involvement in mental health often draws my interest in broader issues in matters of health.

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