My Tribute to Jack LaLanne Jack LaLanne, ‘the founder of the modern fitness movement,’ died at the age of 96. He was a showman and a salesman. He was passionate in his message, and his message was spot on correct. It was a message of health. In 1936 Jack LaLanne “opened the prototype for the...
The Drug Pipeline Kudos to the county-wide Pain Management Project for their efforts in curbing the ‘illegal use of legal drugs’ and addressing the human toll they take. However, the bigger picture appears to be eluding them. Their efforts, while worthwhile, distract from fixing the real problem at the source. It’s like washing off oil...
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One Skeptic to Another Note: the following blog is in response to an article that appeared in my local newspapers ——————————————— Professor Pasachoff is a skeptic, as am I…to the extent that one of my guiding precepts is: ‘the quality of your life and your understanding of the world will be determined by the quality...
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No Stone Left Unturned One of the biggest indicators of how much we need health care reform is the extent and costs of the battle that the special interests of the medical-pharmaceutical-industrial complex are waging to kill it. Theirs’ is a well financed, coordinated, no-holds-barred war, leaving no stone un-turned in their efforts to influence...
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Health care is a sick business Imagine an entity that is both amoral and soulless; its guiding precept is profit and growth. This is the foundation of the modern American conglomerate; including those of the health care, pharmaceutical and insurance industries. Witness: “Health insurance giant Aetna is planning to force up to 650,000 clients to...
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The Dark Side of $cience Science: knowledge, as of facts or principles, gained by systematic study. In the past century the miracles and wonders of science have helped us understand our world and tap into, channel and use its natural forces and resources. In every field, from physics to chemistry to medicine, etc., scientific discovery...
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Things are getting seriously ugly as the health care reform debate moves forward. That’s because we have a President who is determined to actually DO something. What it is that he actually CAN do, remains to be seen. Conservative and GOP-backed think-tanks along with the medical-pharmaceutical-insurance industrial complex’s media, advertising arms and hired guns/lobbyists have...
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Health Care Deformed Just how powerful are the medical-pharmaceutical-insurance special interests that oppose health care reform? More powerful than ever, and their power grows daily. During the Clinton administration these special interests were able to squash attempts at health care reform as if the President and First Lady were as insignificant and powerless as gnats....
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Political InAction Whether or not you are paying attention to, and engage in, the health care reform debate the outcome will be determined by the most vocal and influential voices in Washington. Take heed, the vested interests of the medical-pharmaceutical-insurance industrial complex are geared up and out in full force. “The big guns are out...
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Is Health Care Too Big To Fix? We have a democratic president, elected by a landslide vote, and a democratic majority in the House and Senate, proposing a single payer solution for health care reform that is widely supported by a vast majority of Americans, Democrats and Republicans. Yet that reform legislation faces an uphill...
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