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POPSCanadian Doctor Shares True Pros & Cons of Canadian Health Care
Canadian doctor Michael M. Rachlis shares the truth about the Canadian Health Care system in hopes of dissolving propaganda and confusion. The Los Angeles Times posted and Op-Ed article by Canadian doctor Michael M. Rachlis. The whole thing is well worth a read and will provide a much better understanding of not only the Canadian health care system, but that of the U.S. as well. There's been a vast debate regarding a public option in the U.S. and most of it seems to be based on misinformation and fear tactics. Unfortunately, there's been a shortage of informed opinions and solid facts. I think it would be a good idea of many people who enjoy the benefit of universal health care in other countries would come forth and share their experiences. With the vast number of uninsured Americans, and the fact that insurance companies can and do deny coverage on a very arbitrary basis, there seems to be a need of some kind of major overhaul to the American health care system.
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POPSWhat No One Is Telling You You'd never know it listening to the endless blather of the politicians and the media, but 100 million Americans - about 40% of all us us with health insurance - already have some form of "government-run" health plan. Why isn't this talked about all the time? The Democratic Congressional leadership and President Obama should be citing this fact over and over again
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POPSFund Health Care, Not War # "Until we remove the motive of profit from the financing of health care, we cannot and we will not resolve our current health care crisis." # "Any group that proposes reform policy that maintains the use of for-profit insurance companies in a so-called free market is being driven by one single motive -- to protect the golden coffers of their share of the $2 trillion cash cow!"
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POPS Aids network launches campaign against quacks "The quacks are not only a stumbling block in the fight against Aids but also they cheat unsuspecting patients, often poor and uneducated," said Shabana Patel, a representative of the Indian Network of People Living With HIV and Aids in the western state of Maharashtra
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POPSThe Bushies Pre-emptively attack Michael Moore
Once again the Bushies have decided to preemptively attack Michael Moore over his new documentary, SICKO. This is a film about the lack of adequate health care in the richest country in the world; the United States of America. Understand, that there are certain things Michael Moore does and says that do not meet with my applause, but when he is right he is right. The U.S. should be embarrassed by its lack of health care for every citizen of the country, no matter what their financial situation. Health care is not a privilege, it is a right. This is especially true in a country as vastly wealthy as the U.S. It is criminal for tens of millions of people to be out of the loop for proper medical care. The Bushies and the conservative Republicans will say or do anything to scare the citizenry away from national health care. But just ask the people of Canada what they think of their system, even with the problems it faces. It is not perfect. But no one is left uncared for.
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POPSHealth care, food, shelter and education, are basic human rights More from article: These will become the provision of adequate food, of shelter, of health care and education for all people, as a universal right. This will be paid for from an economic restructuring and the redirection of the countless billions a year now spent on armaments. These four basics seem not too much for anyone to ask - sufficient food, shelter, health care and education- and yet there is no country in the world where they pertain as a universal right. When they do, Maitreya says, the life of humanity will be transformed.
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POPSNew Interactive Television to Help Patients and Elderly In addition to monitoring patients' vital signs, an "interactive dosifier" feature creates reminders that pop up on the television so that people don't forget to take their medication. Patients can send messages to their doctor via the TV set also. Another innovative way to help elderly people remain in their homes instead of uprooting them and warehousing them in nursing homes and retirement centers. This gives me hope. I had planned to be set adrift on an ice floe when the time came that I could no longer live at home, but with global warming that plan may have to be scrapped. Perhaps this telemedicine will be a viable alternative.
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POPSHealthline: search for health I find this site handy for researching health-related subjects: symptoms, tests, drugs, diseases and conditions, first aid, alternative medicine, etc.
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POPSBurkina Faso gov't closing arsenic poisoned wells :-( Those of us who have good drinking water take it for granted, while others have to choose between dying of thirst or arsenic poisoning. Sand filtration, if it works as well as Zougouri claims, sounds like a good alternative to closing the wells...a stop gap measure until new wells or technologies can be developed.
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