Overheard at the US Drug Pharmacy Counter: Greed in Action
At our local pharmacy counter, we often hear way too many stories of trauma and anger as people try to negotiate through a for-profit health care system that fights to keep profits growing ever higher by denying medications. We know our struggles are shared because […]
Doctors prefer Camels, Global Nurse Movement, Psychiatrist and the Proctologist, ACA Myth-ectomy.
Doctors prefer Camels In 1947, R.J. Reynolds commissioned a survey among more than 100,000 doctors, asking the key question, “What cigarette do YOU smoke, Doctor?” However, BEFORE the survey was sent out, all of those doctors received free samples of Camel cigarettes. Naturally, when the […]
Nurse Talk Short | Global Nurses United and ACA FACTS
Global Nurses? Yes, it’s necessary! We mentioned a few weeks ago that we attended the National Nurses United Conference here in San Francisco. We met nurses from most of the states and from over 13 other countries. It’s very interesting to talk to nurses from around the world […]
Doctors prefer Camels. Global Nurse Movement. Psychiatrist and the Proctologist. ACA Myth-ectomy.
Doctors prefer Camels In 1947, R.J. Reynolds commissioned a survey among more than 100,000 doctors, asking the key question, “What cigarette do YOU smoke, Doctor?” However, BEFORE the survey was sent out, all of those doctors received free samples of Camel cigarettes. Naturally, when the […]
Hospital Charges Push Bounds of Reason
In the consumer marketplace, businesses and vendors are free to charge whatever they wish to charge for the product or service they offer. Customers may shop around for better deals, and competing businesses may even engage in price wars to earn higher sales. But in […]
Want to Blame the Immigrants? Not So Fast. They Die and Go Broke in this System, too.
I’ve heard it so many times, when people consider an improved and expanded “Medicare for All, for Life” model: “Do we have to cover the ‘illegal’ immigrants?” People have this misguided idea that giving everyone access to health care is more costly than the way […]
My Breasts and My Life Not as Valuable as Angelina’s
While women and men around the world applaud Angelina Jolie for her bravery in writing such a public opinion piece in the New York Times today about her preemptive double mastectomy, some of us know that our breasts and our lives just are not worth as much as […]