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 article …
Category: Health Care
New Study: Health Insurance Saves Lives of Poor
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 Study: Poverty Kills!
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 …