Category Archives: Health Care

Price Controls Cause Doctor Shortage in Canada

Posted on Tue, 23 Aug, 2011 by pmjones

I phoned all 84 doctors who were listed as practising within 10 kilometres of my home. Some of their receptionists were polite. Some were surly. All rejected me. … Then I found another Web-based service called HealthAware.ca. It allows you … Continue reading →

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Legalize it. Tax it. Build businesses around it.

Posted on Tue, 14 Jun, 2011 by pmjones

Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. has long sold weed killer. Now, it’s hoping to help people grow killer weed. In an unlikely move for the head of a major company, Scotts Chief Executive Jim Hagedorn said he is exploring targeting medical marijuana … Continue reading →

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Why Hasn’t Anyone Signed Up For the High-Risk Health Insurance Pools?

Posted on Thu, 02 Jun, 2011 by pmjones

[T]he high-risk pools, which were meant to tide people over until 2013, have signed up just 18,000 people as of March. There were supposed to be millions of people who were uninsurable because of pre-existing conditions.  We heard lengthy testimony … Continue reading →

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Is Sugar Toxic?

Posted on Thu, 14 Apr, 2011 by pmjones

If Lustig is right, then our excessive consumption of sugar is the primary reason that the numbers of obese and diabetic Americans have skyrocketed in the past 30 years. But his argument implies more than that. If Lustig is right, … Continue reading →

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Paul Ryan’s budget proposal: “Brave, radical, and smart.”

Posted on Wed, 06 Apr, 2011 by pmjones

[Paul Ryan's] genuinely radical plan goes where Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich never did by terminating the entitlement status of Medicare and Medicaid. (It doesn’t touch the third major entitlement, Social Security, though Ryan has elsewhere argued for extending its … Continue reading →

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Deep Fat Is Not The Problem

Posted on Sun, 03 Apr, 2011 by pmjones

"Fat is not the problem," says Dr. Walter Willett, chairman of the department of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health. "If Americans could eliminate sugary beverages, potatoes, white bread, pasta, white rice and sugary snacks, we would wipe … Continue reading →

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Hey, Jenny McCarthy, Read This

Posted on Wed, 05 Jan, 2011 by pmjones

A now-retracted British study that linked autism to childhood vaccines was an "elaborate fraud" that has done long-lasting damage to public health, a leading medical publication reported Wednesday. An investigation published by the British medical journal BMJ concludes the study’s … Continue reading →

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A Vegan No More

Posted on Tue, 23 Nov, 2010 by pmjones

My first bite of meat after 3.5 years of veganism was both the hardest and easiest thing I’ve ever done. Tears ran down my face as saliva pooled in my mouth. The world receded to a blank nothingness and I … Continue reading →

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Missouri Votes To Reject Obamacare Mandates

Posted on Wed, 04 Aug, 2010 by pmjones

Missouri voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a federal mandate to purchase health insurance, rebuking President Barack Obama’s administration and giving Republicans their first political victory in a national campaign to overturn the controversial health care law passed by Congress in … Continue reading →

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Government Wrong On Carbs

Posted on Tue, 03 Aug, 2010 by pmjones

… ever since the first set of federal guidelines appeared in 1980, Americans heard that they had to reduce their intake of saturated fat by cutting back on meat and dairy products and replacing them with carbohydrates. Americans dutifully complied. … Continue reading →

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