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Category: Health care

COVID-19 vaccines in a rich-country, poor-country world

December 18, 2020 Christopher Burke Health, Health care One comment

That we live in an unequal world is nothing new. Now, though, that reality may have unpredictable consequences for all of us. We are

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Adventures on the Titanic

July 12, 2020 Bill Kesler Coronavirus, Government, Health care, Trump Leave a comment

Paul Krugman recently posted a piece in the New York Times, The Deadly Delusions of Mad king Donald. It likened our current state of

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coronavirus

800,000 MD’s call Trump’s Easter re-opening plan a prescription for disaster

March 28, 2020 Gloria Shur Bilchik Coronavirus, Health, Health care, Trump Leave a comment

800,000 doctors are telling Donald Trump that his “plan” to reopen businesses by Easter is a bad idea. In a letter delivered to Trump

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ICD

The ABC’s of ICD’s [the device implanted in Blues player Jay Bouwmeester]

February 17, 2020 Glenn Koenen Health care, Sports, Transportation Leave a comment

Picture a nice size orange.  Imagine it cut it in half.  Stick two thin wires into the orange. Then close your eyes and think

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Obamacare-Subsidy-Calculator

Embrace Universality, Reject Means Testing

August 6, 2019 Reece Ellis 2020 Election, ACA/Obamacare, Campaigns, Candidates, Education, Health care, Politics Leave a comment

Bernie Sanders also has a student loan forgiveness proposal; he wants to forgive all of it. That’s it. There are no formulas, no missives full of technocratic language, and no barrier to entry other than having accumulated student loan debt.

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foreign born

Fact: American health care depends on foreign-born-and-trained professionals

November 15, 2018 Renee Shur Health, Health care, Immigration Leave a comment

The misinformation about legal immigration peddled by the Trump administration is going to get up close and personal for many of us rather quickly.

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Pre-existing conditions

Big winners in 2018 midterms? Every American with a pre-existing condition

November 10, 2018 Renee Shur 2018 Election, ACA/Obamacare, Democrats, Health, Health care Leave a comment

Regardless of party affiliation or which party’s candidates voters cast their ballots for on November 6, the big winners in the midterm elections are

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medical marijuana

3 medical marijuana proposals on MO ballot: Compare and contrast

October 14, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2018 Election, Health care, Missouri region, Widgets: 2018 Missouri election One comment

If you’re voting in Missouri on Nov. 6, 2018—and you are, aren’t you?—you’re going to find:  not one, not two, but three proposals pertaining

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bacteria

What I learned about killer bacteria from my doctor’s socks

October 14, 2018 Renee Shur Health, Health care, Science Leave a comment

The first thing I noticed when the doctor sat down in the examining room were the socks. Tucked into a pair of worn, brown-leather

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venezuela

Venezuela’s sick economy is killing its citizens. Here’s how to help them.

September 25, 2018 Christopher Burke Charity & Justice, Health, Health care, International One comment

Two years ago, the  Guardian described how Venezuela’s devastating economic downturn was ravaging its hospitals. Since then, things have only gotten worse. Much worse.

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