Examining Healthcare
Americans who want national healthcare should examine the results where it has already been tried. ...
Healthcare
Comparing Cures
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a federal agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, has made available online a new tool for comparing how well thousands of...
Bush Administration Rule Riles Abortion Advocates
The Bush administration plans to enforce a regulation that will prevent healthcare workers who object to abortion from being forced to perform abortion-related services that violate their beliefs. Under the rule,...
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Report Psychological Problems
A Rand Corporation report indicates that 18.5 percent of current and former U.S. Iraq and Afghanistan veterans recently surveyed reported symptoms of depression or post-traumatic stress disorder. ...
Behavior Worth Medicating?
Government and psychiatry join forces to make children take powerful drugs, even against their parents' wishes. ...
The New Healthcare System
Former Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy Thompson, who served in the Bush administration’s first term, recently joined the board of directors of Florida-based Applied Digital. Applied Digital is the...
Unleashing the Killer Pill
RU-486, the abortion pill, is a dangerous drug that not only kills the unborn infant but endangers the mother’s life and health as well. ...
Free Market Medicine
For more than a quarter century, Washington has waged a high-profile "war" on cancer at a cost to taxpayers of some $30 billion. Figures recently reported in The New England Journal...
Fluoridation Revisited
The case for compulsory fluoridation of the water supply is very flimsy, and the case against fluoridation is overwhelming. ...