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Heritagecare
In 1989, Stuart Butler and others at the conservative Heritage Foundation laid the groundwork for Obamacare/Romneycare in the publication A National Health System for America. Chapter 2 by Butler, A...
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Breathing and Relaxing with the Department of Defense
The U.S. Department of Defense might seem an unlikely place to look for cutting edge technology to relieve stress and promote psychological well-being. That is exactly what you find at The National...
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Pete Rose And The Healthcare Decision
It looks as if the Supreme Court will issue its decision on the Affordable Care Act (aka Heritagecare) this week. An unreported story is the relationship of this to baseball legend Pete Rose. There...
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Victims of the Federalist Laboratories
This morning, a pundit again tried to square the circle by explaining how Mitt Romney can be both the heroic father of Romneycare in Massachusetts and the sworn enemy of Obamacare in the U.S. It goes...
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Walt Whitman Helps Launch Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas
First it was Abraham Lincoln in the new television campaign for the Lincoln Motor Company (the founder of that firm was a fan of the president, back when the company was started in 1917). Now Walt...
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Should We Test Our Elected Officials?
There is currently a right to have an abortion in America during the first trimester of pregnancy. This is one of the most divisive moral and legal controversies of our time. Some who support that...
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The Republican Health Care Plan Is Obamacare
Say something once, why say it again? Talking Heads, Psycho Killer Sometimes making a point means repeating yourself and not saying you’re sorry. The current situation is that Newt Gingrich yesterday...
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One Child Born
And when I die And when I’m gone There’ll be one child born And a world to carry on. Laura Nyro, And When I Die Had enough of just about everything in the news? Had enough of hearing and reading about...
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Some Little Truths About Obamacare
You may not want to think or talk about the Affordable Care Act. Who can blame you? Politicos and talking heads are doing enough for all of us. And yet, October 1 marks the start of people reading the...
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The Most Significant Shutdown Front Pages
Republicans should pay close attention to the front pages of America’s newspapers this morning, the first day of the government shutdown prompted by their obsessive opposition to Obamacare. Most...
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League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis
You may not think that you want to watch the new PBS Frontline documentary League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis. You may not want to spend almost two hours on a documentary, even a superb...
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Republicans Miss Another Opportunity to Be a Popular National Party
The shortcomings of the ACA website during its high-profile first weeks could have been a gift to the struggling Republicans. A softball to hit out of the park. While Democrats are understandably busy...
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There Is Still a War in Syria
When there was less to people’s news and info lives—a newspaper or two a day, a half-hour network news show, a couple of news magazines a week—there were stories that rose to the top and stayed there,...
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VA Health Crisis: Listen to IAVA
We should listen to the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America about this VA health system crisis. As the name implies, IAVA represents the latest generation of American war veterans. They are in...
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Coming Out: How Cosmetic Surgery Is Like Being Gay
In case you haven’t noticed, the noise surrounding Renee Zellweger’s about face sounds just like the conversations we have about celebrities being gay: did she or didn’t she, is he or isn’t he? There...
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Ebola Stress Test
Stress tests. We see them in medicine, in banking, in construction. How well will the patient’s heart perform when he is on a treadmill? How sound are a bank’s finances in the worst case scenario? How...
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NFL Priorities
Which of these three NFL issues deserves the deepest continuous attention by the league, by fans, by the media, and by the public? 1. Frequent on-field concussions that demonstrably lead to players...
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Opiods and Heroin: Where Does It Hurt?
There is bipartisan agreement that we have a national problem of opiod and heroin addiction. But few politicos are willing to discuss the hard questions. The political consensus is that we address the...
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The Weird Randomness of Life
I went to the gym this morning for my regular morning workout. The TV was on, but nobody was there. I saw that the remote control was gone. I climbed on a chair, pushed the power button and turned the...
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Healing and Magic: We Are Not Alone
All of our religious traditions—Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, and all others—include an element of healing. Healing of body, heart and mind. The Gospels, for example, contain many important stories...
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