Category: Health

Vaccines: The Trials Continue

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Theodore Dalrymple reviews Paul Offit's new book, and in so doing, explains why new vaccines are scarce. A policy recommendations is included: "...an extension of the powers of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, to the exclusion of all tort ...
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Dangerous Pesticide Scares

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Alan Caruba of the National Anxiety Center gives quite a scolding to environmental scaremongers in his latest column (reprinted with permission): Endless Environmental Lies by Alan Caruba In the interest of full disclosure, I need to tell you that, years ...
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A Health Care Horror Story for Michael Moore

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Send Me Your Health Care Horror Stories... An Appeal from Michael Moore Friends, How would you like to be in my next movie? I know you've probably heard I'm making a documentary about the health care industry (but the HMOs ...
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House Hearing Finds Approval for Health Security Accounts, With Some Dissent

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Our David Hogberg attends a House hearing on Health Savings Accounts, and comes away with a few observations: A good hearing on HSAs took place Wednesday before the House Ways and Means Committee, with CEOs from various businesses, such as ...
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Fat People Lose Access to Some Surgeries as Cost-Saving Measure in Britain’s Government-Run Health System

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The British nationalized health care system has decided to halt knee and hip replacements to overweight people in at least one part of Great Britain. Specifically, a woman 5' 2" who weighs 168 pounds or more or a man 5' ...
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Finding Sense (and Cents) in Bush’s Social Security Reform, by Jimmie L. Hollis

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There's no lack of opinion concerning President Bush's plans to reform our ailing Social Security system. As an American of African ancestry, I support President Bush's efforts because I believe the reforms he's been talking about would help all black ...
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New HIV/AIDS Statistics Show Blacks “Most Severely Impacted” Group; Black Americans Urged to Adopt a “Conservative Lifestyle”

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With the release of startling new government figures on HIV and AIDS showing African-Americans are the "most severely impacted" community, members of the black leadership network Project 21 are repeating a call to black Americans to be more conscious of ...
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Socialized Medicine a Human Rights Violation?

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Canada has a problem. Its government-run health system is deadly. Now Canada's Supreme Court has ruled that the system's long waiting lists violate the Quebec charter of human rights and freedoms. More from the New York Times: The Canadian health ...
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Social Security Reform for All Retirees, Present and Future, by Ak’bar Shabazz

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Social Security is in dire condition. Most agree that benefits for present retirees should be protected. At the same time, it's equally important to make sure younger generations - future retirees - see a return on the billions of dollars ...
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The Poor Deserve More Than Reimports. by Council Nedd II and Leslie O. Anderson

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In the Bible, the Book of Proverbs has a passage which reads, "a good person knows the rights of the poor, but the wicked cannot understand such things." The Gospel of St. Matthew talks about society's obligation to the "the ...
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