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• Reinforcing the Progressives

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  Yesterday I used my Chutzpah of the Week award to call attention to the nine Democrats in the House of Representatives who voted against health care reform in betrayal of their representation of a sizable portion of their electorate currently without any form of health insurance. Having done this, I should ...
  14 hours ago

• Healthcare Reform: Is it worth it for small business?

  
  Zane Safrit — Authority: 128
  Sometime this weekend, I lost track, our House of Representatives, approved a landmark health care reform bill Saturday night by a 220-215 vote. Many provisions in this bill are landmark. The one we’re talking about today is the provision that mandates all employees, with any and every business, receive health ...
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• Denying Crucial Care

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  My friend Martha over at This is Everything posted a great piece on her tumblr from an article in The LA Times that was written back in June of 2008 .  It may be an old article but with all the health care news as of late it seems like a good time to remind people of the below fact: “Unlike federal and ...
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• Why Participatory Medicine?

  
  e-Patients.net — Authority: 518
  For most people, their impetus to be actively engaged in healthcare comes from an experience with serious illness—either their own or a loved one’s. My journey into participatory medicine began during my internal medicine residency at Boston City Hospital , a public urban hospital, in the late 1980s.  While ...
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• “The Bill is Passed”

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  I’m sure everyone heard that over the weekend The House of Representatives passed health care legislation !!! It was a close vote but it passed and frankly I don’t care how close it was. You can read more about the historic event over at The New York Times (and here on TakePart as the week progresses) but I ...
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• The House Bill Is A Terrible Bill For Medical Care And The Economy. Part 1

  
  Repairing the Healthcare System — Authority: 113
  Stanley Feld M.D.,FACP,MACE   President Obama was elected on the themes of change and hope. He captured the imagination of all generations. Americans were starved for innovative change. He inspired many with hope for the future. Voters did not dream that the change Democrats had in mind was making health ...
  3 days ago

• If You Represent US, You Must Vote Against Self-styled Healthcare Reform.

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 113
  This is written to 435 people in the two Houses of Congress called our Representatives. “Represent” means to speak for or act in the best interest of. If you truly do that, you must vote against the HR (numbers change along with content and without notice) claiming to be healthcare reform. Here are five reasons. ...
  3 days ago

• The Next Phase of Healthcare Apartheid

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 483
  The official position of the California Democratic Party is unequivocally in favor of single-payer healthcare. And yet Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, did what she could to sabotage the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  4 days ago

• Critically Sick Healthcare – ‘Fixed’ Politically

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 113
  Suppose that health care providers handled sick patients the same way that our so-called Representatives are treating a sick system named healthcare. Below are examples medical care followed in italics by analogous Congressional ‘treatment’ of healthcare. You go to your primary doctor complaining of pain in your ...
  4 days ago

• Improve traditional Indian healthcare system: Pitroda (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) The traditional Indian healthcare system was a “comprehensive solution” to healthcare problems as it reached out to the masses unlike Western methods that only touched “the top of the pyramid”, National Knowledge Commission chairperson Sam Pitroda said here Thursday.In his keynote ...
  6 days ago

• FDA’s Safe Use Initiative–think they will listen to our cries about T4-only meds?

  
  Stop The Thyroid Madness — Authority: 106
  As a thyroid patient who was profoundly harmed by the use of Synthroid and Levoxyl in the treatment of my hypothyroidism, and as an activist who sees this same harmful truth with potentially millions of other patients , I find this recent news interesting. But you gotta wonder if they will be wearing noise reduction ...
  6 days ago

• President Obamas Healthcare Reform Plan Is Failing

  
  Repairing the Healthcare System — Authority: 113
  Stanley Feld M.D.,FACP,MACE There are many reasons President Obama’s plan for healthcare reform is failing. The public is not dumb enough to believe the public option will work and save money at the same time. The public does not believe that the creation of a new entitlement program with a massive ...
  1 week ago

• Medical programmers are just as bad as the doctors.

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 113
  Programmers of medical information technologies (IT) seemed to have learned from the Renaissance Guild Masters. In at least one way, they are just as bad as doctors. For centuries, doctors have been accused of maintaining their power by keeping their arcane knowledge close to the vest and not sharing. To some extent, ...
  1 week ago

• Childhood Cancer Survivors Experience Suicidal Thoughts Decades After Diagnosis

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 544
  Adult survivors of childhood cancer have an increased risk for suicidal thoughts, even decades after their cancer treatments ended, according to a study led by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists. read more
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• Public sneezing in times of flu pandemic triggers fear of unrelated hazards

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Washington, Nov 3 (ANI): A new American study suggests that sneezing in public in times of a flu pandemic creates a huge fear of health threats, including risks that cannot possibly be linked to germs.The research conducted by Spike Lee and Norbert Schwarz, psychologists at the University of Michigan will appear in ...
  1 week ago

• Hawks For The Homeless: Shorn To Make A Difference

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  respres Flickr photostream/Creative Commons Ever been tempted to get a mohawk or even a fauxhawk?  Well, by participating in Hawks for Homeless , a new campaign started in Los Angeles, you can try out the bold hairstyle and raise money for homeless service providers at the same time. The volunteer based ...
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• GOP Pushes Rival Healthcare Plan in House

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 163
  Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives plan to offer an alternative to Democrats massive healthcare reform bill that would not raise taxes or require people or businesses to buy health insurance, the House Republican leader said on Sunday. House Democrats last week introduced a 1,990-page bill that includes ...
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• Low-Tech Models of Participatory Medicine: The Astounding Results of Group Prenatal Care

  
  e-Patients.net — Authority: 518
  A signal moment in the history of this blog was the arrival in late summer of a new ally, the birthing movement, represented by Amy Romano, the blogger at Science and Sensibility , the Lamaze International blog. Amy gets it: participatory medicine is not just about the internet – it’s about being empowered and ...
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• Healthcare Needs a Old Fashioned Country Doctor, Part II of II.

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 113
  As a result of a hacker attack, this Post from 2/16/09 was deleted. I am now restoring it at the request of a recent new reader who liked Part I and wondered why there was no Part II. While we have been playing “doctor,” our patient has been getting worse. Previously in Part I, we learned that the patient ...
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• A 34th Amendment Solves Healthcare.

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 113
  There is an easy workable solution to the costs of healthcare: easy, workable even cheap but unfortunately politically unacceptable. A solution that we can all – repeat all – support, except our so-called Representatives in Congress. At a campaign rally in 1979, Ronald Reagan quipped that we could easily improve ...
  1 week ago

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