If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free. – P.J. O’Rourke (1993)
May 11, 2008 Honorable Max Baucus (D-MT)U.S. SenateChairman, Senate Finance511 Hart Senate Office BuildingWashington, D.C., 20510-2602 Honorable Charles Grassley (R-IA) U.S. SenateRanking Member, Senate Finance135 Hart Senate Office BuildingWashington, DC […]
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From my good friends at Patient Privacy Rights: Every day all 51,000 pharmacies in the U.S. download, transmit and sell personally identifiable information for every drug they disburse. Even if […]
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For Immediate Release October 18, 2007 Contact: Ashley G. Katz, MSW 512.732.0033 or 512.897.6390 Download as PDF 47 State & National Organizations, Health IT Companies Join Forces to Demand Consumers Regain […]
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Long-time readers know that I am a supporter of the National Marrow Donor Program's Registry (http://www.marrow.org/) and have been typed and registered since January of 1997. For DC area readers, there […]
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My publication, The Multiracial Activist, recently signed on a coalition letter to the House Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Ways and Means regarding medical privacy. The letter is available online […]
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Wil Wheaton has an urgent post on bone marrow donations and the need for donors. Give it a read. I’ve been on the National Marrow Donor Program’s Registry since January […]
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Thomas Bartlett of The Chronicle of Higher Education on The Man Who Would Murder Death: A rogue researcher challenges scientists to reverse human aging: Aubrey de Grey is indeed a […]
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You've probably noticed that my blogging has been light over the last week. Last Friday, I had minor surgery to correct a condition I've dealt with for about five or […]
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Sheldon Richman of the Future of Freedom Foundation on Bush’s Brave New World: President Bush’s little-publicized New Freedom Commission on Mental Health has proposed comprehensive mental-illness screening for all Americans. […]
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Johann Christoph Arnold writing for All Gulf Vets Magazine on Listening to the Wounded: Facing the incoming from Iraq: It is easy to forget that it has been more than […]
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