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Health Insurance Without Health Care – Commentary
One reason the United States spends more on health care than other countries is that we are obsessed with health insurance instead of health care. When the British National Health Service or the Canadian Medicare system spends additional money, they spend it employing doctors, building hospitals, or buying medical equipment. When the U.S. government spends…
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‘I Couldn’t Afford It’—Olympic Champion Mary Lou Retton on Health Insurance
Gymnast Mary Lou Retton, one of the most charismatic Olympic gold medalists of all time, narrowly escaped death from a rare form of pneumonia last fall, only to be saddled with hospital bills she says she cannot afford to pay. Retton, known as “America’s sweetheart” after her stunning performance in the 1984 Olympic Games at…
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Diabetes-Related Amputations on the Rise
Diabetes-related amputations have reversed a decade-long trend and are now on the rise, according to the American Diabetes Association (ADA). ADA’s Amputation Prevention Alliance reports that 154,000 diabetes sufferers now undergo amputations annually, and up to 80 percent of all non-traumatic lower-limb amputations are the result of uncontrolled diabetes. Limb amputations due to diabetes occur…
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Biden Touts ‘Record-Breaking’ Obamacare Enrollment
After the 2024 open enrollment period for Obamacare ended, President Joe Biden boasted that 21.3 million people signed up for health insurance on the government exchanges, an increase of 30 percent over 2023, and nine million since he took office, in a statement on January 24. “It’s no accident,” stated Biden. “My actions to protect…
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Would I Receive an Organ Transplant? – Commentary
By Heidi Klessig, M.D. Would I ever receive an organ transplant? I have often addressed this question in my lectures and videos on the ethics of organ harvesting and transplantation. Like most questions, the answer to this question is, “It depends!” There are many types of transplants, some of which are ethical and some which…
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Drug Company Faces Lawsuit for Not Releasing Safer Treatment
Gilead Life Sciences, Inc. is facing charges of negligence in California, not because its HIV/AIDS drug was defective, but because the company delayed the release of an allegedly safer drug. A California Court of Appeals affirmed a new, extraordinary negligence liability theory on January 9, 2024, holding Gilead could be liable for negligence, not because…
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Stop, Don’t Take My Organs – Book Review
Harvesting organs and the ethical questions it raises. Review of The Brain Death Fallacy, Heidi Klessig, M.D. (Good Samaritan Books), 2023, 178 pages, ISBN 9798863485003 (Paperback) A news report described how crash victim Daniel Gonzalaz received a “hero’s walk” while “his body was transported from the hospital where he was declared dead,” in December. Daniel’s…
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World Health Organization Preps for ‘Disease X’
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus is pressuring countries around the globe to agree to a new pandemic treaty, warning the next pandemic threat could be deadlier than COVID-19. Ghebreyesus rang the alarm at a meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, in January, during a panel discussion on “Preparing for…
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