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New Orleans For a change we’re winning one against the right wing strategy of progressive institution defunding. This is a Texas-style bare knuckles dispute, and I’m so proud of the way Cecile Richards stepped into the ring here that I could just spit! The Susan Komen Foundation folks are headquartered in Dallas so they should’ve known [...] New Orleans It was shocking today to read that the Komen Foundation, well known for its ubiquitous “pink” crusade against breast cancer, in the most craven way caved into right-wing pressure and unilaterally defunded Planned Parenthood. Komen has been increasingly controversial in the anti-cancer health movement for emphasizing marketing and branding over research and cures, [...] New Orleans A fascinating story ran in the New York Times by Kirk Johnson about “community paramedics” being used in Colorado along with earlier experiments among homeless populations in San Diego, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. There was nothing about the program that involved rocket science, but in cutting back on emergency 911 calls costing [...] New Orleans Reading the report was one of those Sports Center “come on, man!” moments. This couldn’t be true. The top Democratic were filing an amicus curia (friend of the court) brief with the Supreme Court to try to overturn the Obama Administration’s efforts to allow cutting the standards of health protection under Medicaid for [...] New Orleans If any readers of the Sunday New York Times Sunday Review section could get by the devastating critique of the Obama “narrative” and therefore Administration and leadership by Drew Westen or the even more shattering, full color satirical cartoon on how to “survive” the continuing recession, they might have stumbled onto the [...] New Orleans This should be the least surprising news since you learned that sugar tastes good, but now there is actually statistical proof from a drug-trial-like study that when the poor have health insurance by damn their health improves! I’m not sure having hard proof will change any minds or votes among lawmakers but at [...] New Orleans This is a big deal. Dr. Sandro Galea, head of epidemiology at the prestigious Columbia University School of Public Health, and a team, published a paper calculating the deaths in the United States that derive directly from social factors. They looked at six specifics: low education, racial segregation, low social support, individual-level [...] New Orleans A bi-partisan group of US Senators, led by Orin Hatch (R-UT) has asked for an investigation of physician-owned-distributorships (POD) and the lack of safeguards preventing docs from unnecessary surgeries utilizing devices that enrich them because they are distributors for manufacturers. A study Hatch released indicated these PODs are legal in 20 states [...] |
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