Last night, I gathered with a group of about 30 to discuss our current healthcare crisis (it’s a crisis in my opinion).
Change.gov initiated discussions like ours to encourage communities to gather and talk about healthcare. The discussions started on January 15th and must be completed by today (January 31). Summaries of the discussions must be submitted to Change.gov (i.e. Tom Daschle, [...]
I’ll put my money on Sickneglect. It’s obvious, our current healthcare system is not working.
We’re just now starting to see the stats of how truly unfair, inefficient and greedy our system has become. People are dying everyday because they don’t have enough insurance. In 2004, the Institute of Medicine estimated that 18,000 unnecessary deaths [...]
This is so cool…
“Eat the View!” is a campaign to urge President-elect Obama to replant a large organic victory garden on the First Lawn with the produce going to the White House kitchen and to local food pantries.
Check out the website and sign the petition at the bottom right of the page. And then, take [...]
After the last presidential debate, I was surprised how little I actually knew about the candidate positions on the key healthcare issues. I didn’t want to just trust that my chosen candidate was right on these important issues. While digging for more information, I came across these sites:
The Kaiser Family Foundation has a helpful tool on [...]
September 11th is a day still filled with a lot of emotions. I would imagine for those who lost loved ones in the WTC attacks, the wound of grief is still open and stinging. Such a tragedy is hard to comprehend and difficult to gather closure around.
As I sit with the complex emotions that envelope this day, [...]
I’m sitting here right now with a roof over my head, a glass of insanely priced organic orange juice, a Sigg full of filtered water, a computer with internet, light to shine on my keyboard, etc., etc., etc. There’s no reason to be ashamed of these things, but earlier this week, I was complaining to [...]
The Center for Science in the Public Interest released their findings on an evaluation of kid’s menus from the 25 top chain restaurants in the U.S. (On a side note, do we really need a specific center that assures us of science in the public interest? Hmmmm…) Here are the surprising stats from the [...]
Please click here to help support the passage of the “Bipartisan Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act”. Below is some information about the bill (collected from the Lifetime website).
“The Bipartisan Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act Gets First Congressional Hearing in 12 Years. On Wednesday, May 21, the Health Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee [...]
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