Parents who refuse to let their children have their childhood vaccines get a fair amount of attention from the press. The people who should get just as much, or more, coverage are the health care workers who refuse to get their flu shot. It's...
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November 18th will mark the 11 year anniversary of the day I ended my grandmother's life. I did it with an ink pen. To sign documents to give to hospital.
It should be abundantly clear to any regular readers that I am not one to criticize the S-CHIP reauthorization effort. That remains unchanged. But what I do think is worthy.
Just so the consequences of Bush's veto of S-CHIP are 100% clear: it's not just that kids who need health insurance but aren't currently covered are screwed. Kids who are currently receiving health insurance through S-CHIP may also be facing the S-CHOP (har har). Take,...
It seems to me that Atrios is completely right about this. I mean, what happens if this ridiculous smear campaign about the kid makes breaks mainstream? The veto is a.
It's a minor example among the countless ones of the Bush administration's fiscal incontinence, but the money the Bush administration is using to fund useless abstinence-only programs and useless abstinence-only.
By now we all know about Bush's politically stupid and unconscionable veto of Congress's bill expanding S-CHIP, the health care program that would cover kids whose families are not poor enough to get medicaid but who cannot pay for private healthcare. SCHIP is a laudable...
...that the quality and quantity of healthcare is vastly different depending on where you live, what your racial and ethnic background is, and how much money you have. And the.
Well you can say one thing about President Bush: he's a politicker til the end. Today, as he promised, he vetoed S-CHIP, the State Child Health Insurance Program. S-CHIP is.
Ezra assesses the meaning of the fact that the United States ranks #1 in cancer survival rates, which seems likely to be adduced frequently by apologists for the indefensible American health care system: Moreover, simply having the highest survival rates isn't a particularly useful metric...
Repeating a frequent argument, a commenter to this thread says:The structure of a universal care system should somehow promote and reward healthy living. How does one deter the freeloaders who.
In addition to what Roy says, I'd like to highlight this odd part of Megan McArdle's counter to Ezra's attack on Giuliani's health plan:Moreover, as a class, the old and.