US overdose deaths remain tragically high, hovering around 108,000 to 110,000 annually in recent years (2021-2023), Deaths by gun violence: 20,000
US OVERDOSE DEATHS REMAIN TRAGICALLY HIGH
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Politics / Healthcare
HEALTHCARE COST ESCALATION – PART 1
The US healthcare industry is primarily private. Even Medicare has vast private company ties. Medicare Advantage (Part C) is run by public healthcare companies. Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage (Part D) is also run by public companies. Even basic Medicare Parts...
THE PARADOX OF CLINICAL TRIALS
THE FDA. DAMNED IF YOU DO. DAMNED IF YOU DON’T. There is a paradox with respect to clinical trials. One day you may see an article criticizing the FDA for not approving a promising drug that is in clinical trials, because it may benefit people right away. And the...
THE MOST NATURAL TREATMENT FOR VIRAL INFECTIONS (the answer may surprise you)
There is a lot of information out there about how to prevent and treat viral infections. Let’s take some time to review our choices. ANTIBIOTICS First things first. Antibiotics treat bacterial infections but have no effect on viral infections. Americans often like to...
WHAT IS A MAN?
It seems so simple. A man is a man, and a woman is a woman. We know the sex of the baby immediately at birth and we write that down on the birth certificate. Done. No questions, no issues, that is the “fact”. However…. Like most things in the real world, it...
ALBERT ALEXANDER
December 1940. Hitler had finalized his plans for Vichy, France, the German invasion of Russia and the invasion of Greece. Dionne Warwick, Frank Zappa, Richard Pryor, Nick Buoniconti and Phil Ochs were born. In Oxford, England a police constable named Albert...
LEAVING THE WHO
LEAVING THE WHO. THE SAME MISTAKES AGAIN So, Mr. Trump has announced that we are pulling out of the WHO. He claims that, in his opinion, the WHO did not do enough to alert the US on the problems associated with COVID-19; they didn’t do it early enough, and they relied...
THE HEALTHCARE ENIGMA
This example is based on fact and is designed to provide a discussion framework for looking at the complexities of managing healthcare costs. The Disease: Hemophilia A [1] The Cause: A...
DEMS AND REPS ARE BOTH WRONG
Both the Democrats and the Republicans Know Better BOTTOM LINE Politicians are motivated by how their voters perceive them. It matters that their public statements reinforce their closely cultivated political image. Deviation from that posture is seen as “selling...