| Mar 19, 2012 | Environment / HealthPatients pay me Well indeed; Getting tests That they don’t need. In most countries, health care is aimed at curing the sick. Here, not so much. In the United States, health care is a profit center, one of our nation’s few growth industries. Young people...
| Mar 12, 2012 | Environment / HealthNow that death Is at your door; Hope you planned it Long before. You may have missed it amid all this fuss about Catholics and contraception. The Church’s pushback over routine birth control methods stemmed in large part from an important edict the U.S....
| Mar 5, 2012 | Environment / HealthIn these trying times of health care austerity, it reaffirms one’s faith in humanity to learn that many hospitals are now going the extra mile to provide top quality care for all. For all super-rich people that is. These folks are so rich they can buy their way...
| Nov 14, 2011 | Environment / HealthHow small can a giant corporation get? I don’t mean in size, but in spirit. Once again, America’s biggest commercial empire — Walmart — is displaying its incredibly shriveled ethical center by whacking the already meager health care benefits...
| Oct 31, 2011 | Environment / HealthNational Nurses United, America’s largest union of RNs, is sounding an alarm. We’ve organized rallies in New York, Boston, Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, and Las Vegas, as well as in Minnesota, Michigan, Texas, Florida, and other states...
