Category: HEALTH CARE
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All I Want for Christmas is a (Real) Government Shutdown
The political class breathed a sigh of relief Saturday when the US Senate averted a government shutdown by passing the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill. This year’s omnibus resembles omnibuses of Christmas past in that it was drafted in secret, was full of special interest deals and disguised spending increases, and was voted on before…
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FDA Caught Protecting Big Pharma from Whistleblowers
By Lisa Rein and Ellen Nakashima [youtube]http://youtu.be/Vo1Nh_2m6F8[/youtube] The Food and Drug Administration may have violated the federal law protecting whistleblowers by monitoring the personal e-mail of its own scientists, congressional investigators conclude in a report that calls the two-year spying operation “excessively intrusive.” The findings, scheduled for release Wednesday by two top Republicans, suggest that the employees were monitored as part…
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What if Psychiatrists are the Crazy Ones!
By Shane Ellison MS I may be a perfect candidate for psychiatry. I ask questions with period marks to shorten conversations. I avoid eye contact with strangers in fear (maybe it’s anxiety) that I might learn too much about them. I secretly think that Metallica would be making better music if they went back to…
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Let Market Forces Solve Organ Transplant Crisis
Ten-year old cystic fibrosis patient Sarah Murnaghan captured the nation’s attention when federal bureaucrats imposed a de facto death sentence on her by refusing to modify the rules governing organ transplants. The rules in question forbid children under 12 from receiving transplants of adult organs. Even though Sarah’s own physician said she was an excellent…
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Dropping the Bomb on Health Care
As business owners undercarego the yearly ritual of passing through eye-popping health insurance premium increases to their employees, it’s easy to understand why any attempt at health insurance reform would be met with some degree of hope. Unfortunately, President Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress are about to take a very bad system and…
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Psychiatry’s BIG Secret begins to unravel
It’s a scam-science that cures nothing! (But they’re making a ton of money drugging you & your kids.) Mental Health: No Science, No Cures! Click here to watch video (4 minutes) Tufts University study shows more than half of Mental Health system’s DSM -IV authors have financial links to Big Pharma Mental Health system’s Diagnostic…