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"Living well is the best revenge"George Herbert (1593 - 1633) David Seaton's News LinksThe Lisbon Treaty, the European Union's de facto constitution, is finally ready to roll out. For euroskeptics it is much too much and for many europhiles it is much too little. In my opinion it is just one more patient step toward Europea (Read More)
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A new Harvard study has uncovered another disturbing reality of America’s broken health care system: Trauma patients without insurance are almost twice as likely to die in the emergency room. Researchers were unable to determine why, but hospitals’ eagerness to transfer the uninsured could be to blame. —PZSAP via MSNBC (Read More)
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In a politically correct world, we’re supposed to pretend that we don’t notice differences between people. But in our effort to make everyone feel good about how racially-sensitive they are toward others, we delude ourselves in thinking that race doesn’t matter any more. Sadly, the research suggests otherwise. There continu (Read More)
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Pro-business groups opposed to the president's health care reform are raising funds to hire a "respected economist" to study the impact of the reform—and find that it is a threat to jobs and the economy. In an email obtained by the Washington Post , a top official at the Chamber... (Read More)
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Several years ago the chairman of the Sovereign Society, Jack Pugsley, in a commentary entitled "It All Starts With Property Rights" wrote the following: The feelings that drive us to defend ourselves against government oppression are an expression of our innate compulsion to control our own property. Each of us shares the (Read More)
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Most e-patients go online to read about a health condition. But that seems almost passive compared to the way a small group of Internet-savvy people are connecting to get their health information.About 20 percent of e-patients go to Internet and social-networking sites where they can talk to medical experts and other patien (Read More)
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International comparison of health care costs and performance metrics Life expectancy and infant mortality vs. total health spending as a percentage of GDP.Data plots are from here and here. Circle areas are proportional to population.I found this surprising.See also:TED-talk video: Let my dataset change your mindset (Gapmi (Read More)
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Al Quinlan, president of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, talks about why prevention is one of the most popular elements of health reform. When it comes to health care reform, one thing is clear: Americans want prevention to play a central role in shaping a new direction for our health care system. Our latest poll shows (Read More)
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Filed under: FitnessPhoto: JC Rojas on FlickrRegular exercise is a vital part of a healthy lifestyle, but is there such a thing as over-exercising? You bet -- and according to Sarah Brown, fitness expert for ThatsFit.ca, it's more common than you think. What's more, it can be harmful to your health. If you think you might b (Read More)
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Busted!The healthcare reform proposals before Congress threaten the existence of the two-party system, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) alleged Monday morning.Hatch asserted that the health bills, which he believes represent a “step-by-step approach to socialized medicine,” will lead to Americans’ dependence on Democrats for their (Read More)
Nov 03, 2009
: Just when I thought Republicans, Lobbyists and other gunslinger operatives had exhausted their bag-o-tricks fear mongering against healthcare reform, it seems they found one more "almost... just about... I suppose it could be in Bazarro-Land" conspiracy theory to throw out there. All that's left now is for them to discover the "secret code" within the legislation that details how Democrats want to legalize eating children in Elitist rituals at Intellectual alters.
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Filed under: Nutrition & SupplementsPhoto: jupiterimagesIt's 3 p.m. You're staring at the monitor, eyes partially glazed over, drifting dangerously between consciousness and dead sleep. Before your head hits the desk, you lurch out of the chair and careen toward the coffee machine. We've all been there. It's the dreaded ene (Read More)
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It's a pretty safe bet that I'm going to be interested in any post entitled: "Health Care Costs: A Market-Theoretic View." And economist Austin Frakt delivers: His argument, essentially, is that a more competitive insurance market could lead to higher costs for consumers. The reason is simple enough: The relevant driver of (Read More)
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Filed under: The Good, The Fat and The Hungry, Diet & Weight LossPhoto: Getty ImagesI saw a baby in church who was so fat, it looked painful. I looked at her fat parents and wanted to slap them both silly -- Three Stooges style -- but we were in church. The preacher was talking about forgiveness, and as bad as I needed to h (Read More)
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UNITEDSTATES Category :: Xirincs Feeds Directory:
I’m going to Chicago next week for the American Bankers Association meeting. Oddly, I haven’t been invited to the Roaring ’20s dance party I hear they’re having.Why wouldn’t they celebrate the era of wild money and hot times (which slid into the Great Depression)? After all, the bankers are doing well these days.They’re (Read More)
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