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Do You Trust Health Information from the Internet?

Image Source Being physically and mentally healthy should be at the top of every individual’s priority list—and this is for obvious reasons. Primarily, being ill affects one’s productivity whether at home or at work…
How Much Do You Know About the Healthcare Reform?

Image Source Republicans are pressing President Obama to scrap his health care reforms and focus on modest proposals. But will these small ideas really fix our broken health care system? Some of the Republican idea…
Health Care Bill: Pay $15,000 Premium or Go to Jail!?

source This is what I am hearing about the new health care bill. "H.R. 3962 provides that an individual (or a husband and wife in the case of a joint return) who does not, at any time during the taxable year, maintain…
Malnutrition: A Consequence of Socialized Healthcare?

source I read a striking article this week courtesy of Jerome Burne of The Daily Mail, entitled Malnutrition: The Hidden Epidemic.Now we all know that obesity is rising year on year and endangers the lives of both young…
A Fat Baby Was Denied Healthcare?!

source Three-month old, 17-pound baby Alex was denied coverage under his parents health insurance because of his unnerving weight. According to the health insurance company, Alex's weight falls into the 99th percent til…
I Make Too Much Money for Free Health Care, But Not Enough to Buy Insurance

Image I am a 27-year-old New Yorker and I have been living without health insurance for a little over a year now. I lost my insurance when I left my full-time teaching job to pursue writing. I now teach part-time and…
Patients and Decision Making in Healthcare Contexts

Most of us have been brought up to have a huge amount of faith in western system of modern medicine, but there are limitations in its assumptions which can lead to real problems which patients have to face all the time…
A "Fat Tax" May Increase Obese People's Healthcare Costs

Do you agree that obese people should have to pay more for their health insurance?
I Am Living Without Health Insurance

This is a post by an anonymous user. To most of you, this may seem like no big deal. Who cares, right? Just stay healthy, right? Wrong, friends. It's wrong to think that when you break your foot and are in a cast for t…
Health Care Reform: Civil Right or Misdiagnosis?

Once upon a time, if you wanted to see a really good knock-down-go-see-your-dentist-in-the-morning kinda' fight you had to drop 39.99¢ on Pay-Per-View -- but those days are no more. Who needs to pay for a good old ghe…