Medical Conspiracy?
This is a good post. Not only is it true, but it’s fun. More of us should dissect certain advertising claims in this way.
Since I blogged two days ago about my opposition to certain phraseology used by Rev. Jim Wallis, I want to say something about the quote to which he is responding. I find the “death boards” complaint about health care easily the least well-founded and most damaging of the issues. There is good reason to discuss…
I was asked recently in a comment for examples of shrillness from the left, and I didn’t respond at the time. The reason for that is simple. When I talk about right wing shrillness I hear from conservatives about how I’m ignoring the left. When I talk about left wing shrillness I hear from liberals…
Those of you who read this blog regularly know that I pretty regularly lash out at the news media. It’s not that I think they’re biassed to one end or the other of the political spectrum. I just think they’re biassed stupid. Well, I just want to point out an article today in Newsweek that…
Let me remind everyone that I’m really thinking on my blog, rather than providing answers that I have really thought out in discussing health care issues and the church. I have lots of pieces, but I don’t feel that I have anything like an assembled puzzle. My comments will also necessarily derive from personal experience….
Mark, at Pseudo-Polymath has written a post, The Christian Response to Healthcare and End of Life, which has what I consider the greatest quality for blog posts: It deserves to be discussed. My immediate problem is that there are simply too many things to discuss, and I’m a long winded person in any case. So…
I take this detour from discussing the church and medical care to talk a bit about why it is so difficult even to discuss medical care in this country, based on a recent personal experience. I’m 50 years old, and a few weeks ago I made my first visit to the emergency room. (Just for…
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No, it;s not a secret. The medical and pharmaceutical industries have been running the country for years (of course, they depend on the oil companies)…
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