healthcare

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Republicans Unwittingly Present Their Own Ideals for Public Health in Ads Against Obama

With open enrollment under the Affordable Care Act beginning October 1, GOP think tanks have stepped up their efforts to discredit “Obamacare”. The most lurid example so far might be twin ads from Generation Opportunity, an organization that seeks to put a youthful, peppy spin on stuffy Tea Party goals.
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Greetings from Gilead – Texas Introduces Fetal Heartbeat Abortion Bill

On Thursday, July 18, Governor Perry signed into law HB2, the bill that would ban abortion in Texas after 20 weeks. The bill would also require all clinics that provide abortion to be upgraded to surgical centers, and would require doctors who perform the service to have admitting privileges to hospitals within 30 miles. The bill was specifically designed to set standards that were impossible to meet in the designated timeframe (September 2014) which means that all but 5 clinics that provide abortions—one of their many services in regards to women’s healthcare—will have to shut their doors. Continue reading

The Healthcare Debate Hits Home for a Banker Who Went Bankrupt

In 2004, my father, a former FDIC banker and “troubleshooter” within the private retail banking industry, declared bankruptcy. A man who spent the better part of his adult life fixing banks after the Texas Mortgage Crisis of the 80’s found his own finances so devastated that he gave his house to the state to pay his creditors and started from scratch at 62 years old.

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US Supreme Court Healthcare Ruling OT


Today, the nation awaits the fate of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known to some people as “Obamacare.” Will we join other civilized societies and provide healthcare for the people of the United States or will we continue the broken system of for-an-insane-amount-of-profit privatized health care for the fortunate. Continue reading

Affordable Care Act Supreme Court Preview

Over the next three days, the Supreme Court will hear six hours of oral arguments in three cases all related to the Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as “Obamacare.” Six hours is the most argument time the Court has dedicated to one issue in over 40 years, and the decisions handed down could have a profound effect not just on the future of healthcare in America but also issues of federalism, judicial oversight, and executive power. Continue reading

Healthcare Workers Using All The Healthcare

A recent study by Thomas Reuters Healthcare that analyzed healthcare utilization of healthcare workers compared to non healthcare workers found that hospital employees spent 10% more on healthcare services than the general population, consumed more healthcare services and were generally sicker.  Interestingly enough, this finding was only amplified when dependents of healthcare workers were taken into account. Continue reading

Ron Paul Has Fixed the Healthcare Crisis

The problem with liberals is they have no backbone. They believe in live and let live instead of live and let die. Ron Paul says that if someone wants to carry the risk of not having insurance then they should also carry the consequences which might be as much as death. But when you look at this a bit closer you will see that Ron Paul actually just fixed the entire healthcare crisis. Continue reading

Massachusetts Tackles Health Care Payments

In Massachusetts, home of RomneyCare, legislators are taking a new look at health care costs and are proposing new ways to bring those costs down.

Since instituting the universal, individual mandate healthcare coverage the Commonwealth has been forced to address the question of skyrocketing healthcare costs. More people on insurance and more government funded health plans has brought the inequities of commercial insurance payouts to light. Continue reading

This Is Why You’re Still Fat


If you’ve ever tried to lose weight, you know how frustrating it is to hear the simplistic ‘eat less, exercise more’ advice. Your personal experience flies in the face of this seemingly straightforward equation. Certainly in a vacuum, eating less and exercising more works. However, our bodies are an open, interactive systems, and rarely cooperate with simple math. Continue reading