what is poverty and who is responsible for eliminating it?
“Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human...
View ArticleIs Medicine a Commodity? Or... "What's So Special About Medicine?"
We all remember the financial crisis of a few years ago, brought about by banks who were "too big to fail". Now we have hospital networks that are too big to care. Businesses are accountable to their...
View ArticleIt Takes More Than Healthcare To Be Healthy
The US is spending more money on healthcare than other developed countries, and getting poorer results for it. What could explain this paradox? In order to answer this question, we first need to...
View ArticlePoverty is the #1 Social Risk Factor for Disease, and Disease Perpetuates...
Poor people get sick more often than non-poor people, and when people are sick, they cannot learn, they cannot work hard, and they cannot move up the opportunity ladder. This is a burden not only on...
View ArticleDaily Kos please stop tracking me
I have DoNotTrackMe and GoogleSharing set up on my browser, so websites that use tracking services don't track my browsing on the net.Recently I've noticed that the Daily Kos main page takes a long...
View ArticleTop-10 Awards for GOP-Controlled States..."the proof of the pudding"
The best way to judge the merits of a social philosophy is to look at the metrics of social health in places where those policies are implemented as close to fully as might be possible. In the case of...
View Articlemedicare SGR fix deal announced
This seems like it should be good news for physicians…Physicians will get a 0.5% pay increase each year for 5 years under a deal by a bipartisan team of House and Senate negotiators to repeal the...
View ArticleALERT: Deadly Epidemic Spreading Rapidly
There is a deadly epidemic spreading rapidly, causing death and destruction in its wake. This disease has been with humanity for millennia, but it has now spread to an extent of epic proportions,...
View ArticleUnscientific concept of "race" is useful only as a tool of subjugation and...
There is no scientific basis to the concept of "race" among human beings. There is no genetic basis for dividing up people into categories such as "white", "black", "asian", etc. Any genetic trait that...
View ArticleHealthcare is a human right; it is unethical to continue our social experiment!
This is a followup to my first diary.It is commonly asked whether healthcare is a right or a privilege. Most modern developed nations have answered this question already, concluding that it is a right....
View Articleplease stop putting his ugly face up on the front page
why do i have to keep looking at his filthy face enlarged on my screen as I scroll up and down the front page and nearly vomit every time? www.dailykos.com/…please stop giving him screen time. stop...
View ArticleNo compromise with Nazis! (don't give me that "bipartisan" crap!)
republicans have shown their true nature. they are white supremacist nationalists, kid snatchers, environmental terrorists, they want to take away our healthcare and social security. now that we have...
View ArticleInsurance Company = Death Panel. It is time for Single Payer Healthcare Now!
www.cnn.com/..."Did you ever look at medical records?" Scott Glovsky, Washington's attorney, asked Iinuma in the deposition."No, I did not," the doctor says, shaking his head.How unworthy of the title...
View Articlewho were the biggest insurance industry lackies, and how did they fare in the...
www.opensecrets.org/…1Brown, Sherrod (D-OH)Senate$423,064 Mr Brown, get your priorities straight and stand up for people’s interests, not those of the insurance sharks! Don’t be an insurance lackey!...
View ArticleUS press is not exactly free, and not exactly friend of the people, and...
not to echo the Dotard, and we must stand up to his dictatorial rhetoric at every step. It may be one thing to say our press, as it is, is all we’ve got, and we have to protect it. that’s fine, but we...
View ArticleDotard Tramp is yet another "little president" dictator-wana-be attacking...
xxYouTube VideoDotard Tramp has not invented anything new. He is not original at all. He is just another pathetic example of many a “little president” who have marched across the theater of history,...
View ArticleTired of reading about dumb sh*t republicans say
what % of RECed diaries are about dumb shit republicans said and the responses on twitter? they’re bunch of dumb shit with less than high school level of “edumacation”, but must we have 60% of our...
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foreign-born doctors and academics have been making America great long before...
Foreign-born doctors and academics have been making America great again for decades, long before this “little president”decided to try to make it “white again”.More than one-quarter of physicians and...
View ArticleStories from the trenches: patients who cannot afford their basic meds and...
Case #1. COPD exacerbation.Subjective:68 year old female with past medical history of severe COPD, not on any home medications, presents with shortness of breath and cough. She is admitted for COPD...
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Beyond Healthcare Reform: A Social Transformation for Health Through the...
I had previously written a diary on the fact that it takes more than just healthcare for people to be healthy. Recently I saw the diary “PSA: The holidays are hard for folks with toxic families” which...
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JAMA: States Move to Substitute Opioids With Medical Marijuana to Quell Epidemic
jamanetwork.com/...As state governments grapple with ways to curb the opioid epidemic in their own backyard, New York and Illinois took a relatively new approach last summer by modifying existing...
View ArticleSince Christmas is coming, I feel like asking Dems in the House for more...
xxYouTube Videowww.drugpolicy.org/…Progress is inevitably slow, and even with an administration hostile to reform there is still unprecedented momentum behind drug policy reform in states and...
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big pharma killing public funding of research so they can pad their pockets...
I don’t think we even need pharmaceutical companies to exist. The most important groundbreaking research is done in Universities, with public funding. So the people already own the discoveries that...
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poor-shaming makes me so ANGRY I want to SCREAM !@&*
Give out free birth control and make sure everyone knows that parenting is tough and expensive and if you are not up to the challenge don’t do it!stop your republican talking points right there !you...
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2006-2014 ER visits for firearm injuries: 4505 dead children, $2.5 billion....
Trends in the Incidence of and Charges Associated With Firearm-Related Injuries Among Pediatric Patients, 2006-2014JAMA Pediatr. 2018;172(12):1195-1196. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2018.3091On February...
View ArticleWhose side is FDA on? Protecting people or profit? Endocrine Society on FDA...
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made decisions about the safety of bisphenol A (BPA) based on incomplete data, according to information presented during the Endocrine Society's...
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Americans killed by guns in record numbers, while NRA conspired with Russians!
(CNN)Gun deaths in America have reached a record high.Nearly 40,000 people in the United States died by guns last year, marking the highest number of gun deaths in decades, according to a new analysis...
View Articlefrom now on mail all your medical bills to congress #MailMedicalBillstoCongress
how much longer are we going to just sit around and read heartbreaking stories like these???instead of writing letters or calling our congresscritters, we should just mail them all our medical bills....
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We Need Pharmaceutical Companies Like We Need Asbestos in Baby Powder!
I was going to take the time to write a follow up diary in response to the self-aggrandizing comments that I had read in my previous diary, saying how valuable pharma companies are, and how they are...
View Articlesyria, border security (wall), government shutdown, are all Trump...
everything and the universe revolve around him. all he thinks about is himself and how to protect himself and his piglets. he is spitting in the faces of the military industrial complex, the republican...
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KosAbility: Pressure Ulcers: More than Just a Pain on the Butt
Pressure ulcers are a common complication for hospitalized patients, residents of nursing homes and long-term care facilities. It is a significant cause of disability, suffering, and degradation of...
View ArticleDon't make a deal with an illegitimate prezi-dunce criminal traitor holding...
if Pelosi makes a deal with dotard trash, she will be accepting the legitimacy of his position. he is not a democratically elected president. he is a traitor criminal who sold us out to his pimp...
View ArticleSingle-Payer Healthcare in exchange for Border wall.
how about that for a compromise? it will never happen, but if prezi-dunce wants to negotiate, Democrats should ask for the moon!
View ArticlePro-corporate Dems like Feinstein: We are Done With your Good-Cop-Bad-Cop...
I am sick and tired of the good-cop-bad-cop game played at every election cycle by the dems and repubs! They are both cronies and lackies of the same pro-corporate wall street casino robber...
View Articledefeat repubs & replace pro-corporate pro-war democrats with...
From the outset, U.S. oil companies have feared that Venezuela might someday use its oil revenues to benefit its overall population instead of letting the U.S. oil industry and its local comprador...
View Articleat least Manafort got 47 months. Democrats let the bankers go free, gave them...
what happened to putting the Bush regime on trial for war crimes?what happened to putting the bankers who foreclosed on our homes in jail?let’s put BETTER and MORE [of the BETTER] democrats into...
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Democrats must abandon good-cop-bad-cop neoliberal pro-corporate game with...
The War for the Democratic PartyWe had a major victory in the 2018 elections, thanks to the progressive ideas which gave new life to the democratic party. But we must not lose the momentum. We must not...
View Article“Beto frequently voted for repub bills” someone please explain this to me:
Is he a boy version of AOC or just another money man? From what I can tell, it’s the later. But I can be convinced otherwise.…www.theguardian.com/…Progressives should “occupy” the convention. This...
View ArticleTulsi Gabbard, progressive, anti military-industrial sponsored wars, pro...
Gabbard is among a very few true progressives who reject the military industrial complex policy of greed, exploitation, and terrorism (wars based on lies) inflicted on nations with natural resources....
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