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POPSWhy is the "cure" nearly always worse than the cause? I become more concerned with modern medicine in the form of pharmaceuticals daily. They are making rash, profit motivated, decisions and the government falls in line as the tax revenue and lobby gifts/graft is running free. Get healthy, get some sun, eat fresh, local produce and quit feeding the mega-national beasts.
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POPSThe ‘Costs’ of Medical Care by Thomas Sowell NRO
countries where the medical training may not be the best. In short, reducing doctors’ income is not reducing the cost of medical care, it is refusing to pay those costs. Like other ways of refusing to pay costs, it has consequences. Any one of us can reduce medical costs by refusing to pay them. In our own lives, we recognize the consequences. But when someone with a gift for rhetoric tells us that the government can reduce the costs without consequences, we are ready to believe in such political miracles. There are some ways in which the real costs of medical care can be reduced, but the people who are leading the charge for a government takeover of medical care are not the least bit interested in actually reducing those costs, as distinguished from shifting the costs around or just refusing to pay them. The high costs of “defensive medicine” " expensive tests, medications, and procedures required to protect doctors and hospitals from ruinous lawsuits, rather than
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POPSWhere they grow our junk food It has provided an abundance of cheap calories for a food system that operates by Doritos economics. A bushel of corn produces some 440 two-ounce bags of 99-cent chips. Farmer grosses $3.70 for the bushel of corn, Doritos more than $440.
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POPSWho's Funding Your Politician? Great place to check up on who is influencing our members of congress and the senate and compare it to the votes they make. Glad to see Ron Paul is not a shill, yet has more money on hand... REPRESENTATIVE (R - TX) Ron Paul Industry Total Indivs PACs Health Professionals $2,000 $1,000 $1,000 Real Estate $1,000 $0 $1,000 Retired $500 $500 $0 $0 $0 $0
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POPSJesse Jackson Criticizes ACORN's Defunding
Walter asked Jackson how he could defend ACORN against the federal cuts considering the community service organization has remained under a cloud of criminal suspicion. ACORN faces investigations into its dealings in 14 states. “I’m not trying to defend it," he said. "I’m simply saying there should be due process. We don’t start with a conclusion. We start with an investigation and an analysis.” Jackson acknowledged that race could be one of several reasons why President Obama has received strong opposition to his healthcare reform crusade. “It may be a factor, but confusion is a factor. Misunderstanding is a factor, and fear is a factor. So, we must get beyond that — because healthcare costs are rising, because the insurance companies, the pharmaceuticals and hospitals have runaway costs without checks and balances.” “That’s why the public option is important,” he said. Walter asked Jackson why he believes it is the government’s responsibility to provide healthcare to i
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POPSMD's Say: Our Patients Are Not Cattle On A Govt. Range Obamacare's bottom line--medical profits are immoral Examiner.comBridgette Wallis There is a basic principle behind the Left’s push to nationalize health insurance"making profit from health care is immoral. Since health care is a right according to the Left, it should not be treated like any other commodity. There is no room for profit in a service that is for the common good of society. No health care related services should be motivated by profit including health insurance, doctor care, hospitals, and pharmaceuticals. The government needs to take the profit motive out of health care by taking it out of the hands of those who seek profits, like corporations and stockholders. Nancy Pelosi said of the insurance companies, "They are the villains. They have been part of the problem in a major way. They are doing everything in their power to stop a public option from happening."
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POPSHow Big Pharma pushed a more-expensive, no-more-effective drug
More: Lexapro had $2.3 billion in sales in 2008 even though generic versions of Celexa and every other drug in the class sell for a fraction of Lexapro’s price. For example, a month’s supply of 5-milligram tablets of Lexapro costs $87.99 at drugstore.com, compared to $14.99 for a month’s supply of a generic version of Prozac. Forest has recently been raising the price of Lexapro to make up for a decline in its use… It is impossible to unpack all of the reasons for these prescriptions, but some industry critics say one reason could be the money doctors make from Forest. Psychiatrists make more money from drug makers than any other medical specialty, according to analyses of payment data. And Forest gives more money and food to doctors than many of its far larger rivals… Forest’s payments to doctors in 2008 were surpassed only by those of Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Novartis and Merck — companies with annual sales that are five to 10 times larger than Forest’s.
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POPSMichael Barone Michael Barone is more a scholar than a pundit/commentator. It's impossible to argue with him since he has all in the info at his fingertips. Here, he points out the benefits of US-style free enterprise in medicine. He also shows how other nations free-ride on US creativity and investment even as they call us right-wing morons.
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POPSBitterness: The Next Mental Disorder Feeling bitter that top financial execs are getting away with huge bonuses while you're left in the dust? You could be suffering from what's soon-to-be "Post Traumatic Embitterment Disorder." American Psychiatric Association (APA) is considering including bitterness in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
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POPSRecession Discussion They forgot to include Marketing... all of these businesses need it! Maybe it falls under "select services" (renovation :)
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POPS Stifling Innovation ~ Legal Abuse as has already been demonstrated in the area of innovative pharmaceuticals. The Association of Trial Lawyers of America has lately refashioned itself as the "American Association for Justice," and its membership would have you believe they are now merely simple seekers of Truth and Justice -- but this tiger has not changed its stripes. The trial lawyers' concern with "the rule of law," which they claim motivates their new campaign against preemption, goes exactly as far as strategically necessary to produce big damage awards or settlements -- wrung from jury-fearing, meek corporate bottom-liners. Add to this that Justice Souter, a relative moderate on many regulatory issues, will soon be replaced by the more "empathic" and lawsuit friendly Sonia Sotomayor, and we have a formula for even more trouble ahead.
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POPSThere is Something in the Water: Drugs... This would certainly explain the drug induced coma the followers of a certain political figure exhibit. But then again they may be deliberately taking drugs and not only getting it from the water they drink. Oh well I knew there had to be something in the water to explain all this craziness.
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POPStons of released drugs taint U.S. water there eis more to rad here- but they did say that : as part of its ongoing PharmaWater Investigation about trace concentrations of pharmaceuticals in drinking water. AP identified 22 compounds that show wup on two lists: the EPA and the FDA's . It doesn't show how much of the 271 million pounds comes from drugmakers versus other manufacturers- etc
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