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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