Showing posts with label health care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health care. Show all posts
Saturday, September 12, 2026

A Speech Against Assisted Suicide

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Ethos in rhetoric is an appeal to the speaker's or writer's credibility, character, and authority to sway an audience.  Opposition ...
Sunday, July 26, 2026

Make America Sick Again

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Many posts have discussed myths and misinformation . The greatest spreader of vaccine misinformation is the Secretary of Health and Hum...
Sunday, June 7, 2026

Disease Resurgence

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Many posts have discussed myths and misinformation . The greatest spreader of vaccine misinformation is the Secretary of Health and Hum...
Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Nursing Homes and Pay-to-Play Politics

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Many   posts  have  discussed   lobbying ,  " shadow lobbying ," " unlobbying ," and " non-lobbying lobbying ....
Monday, December 1, 2025

Silver Tsunami

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  Many posts have discussed  demographic trends , especially the  decline of births  and the  aging of the population . Emily Peck at Axios ...
Friday, October 17, 2025

Rose Research Fall 2025

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Watch this clip from  The Wire . It is the best description of research, ever. The big stuff: Finding the literature:  https://consensus.app...
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Blowing Up the Federal Debt

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  Many posts  have  discussed  federal  deficits  and the  federal debt . Sahil Kapur at NBC: President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill...
Thursday, July 17, 2025

Demographics, Inflation, Social Security, and Medicare

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Many posts  have  discussed   Social Security  and Medicare . James C. Capretta at AEI: During the raucous debate surrounding the GOP-sponso...
Saturday, July 12, 2025

Silencing Critics by Threatening Litigation

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Filmmaker Mary Strause made a docuseries critical of UnitedHealth.  The companies used the threat of litigation to coerce streaming services...
Saturday, July 5, 2025

USAID

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Daniella Medeiros Cavalcanti, et al., "Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defund...
Sunday, June 1, 2025

How Not to Write a Government Report

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Robert Kennedy's MAHA initiative issued a report full of bogus citations and AI-generated content . As Jeffrey A. Singer, Terence Keale...
Saturday, March 15, 2025

The Cost of Slashing PEPFAR

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  Americans vastly overestimate the size of the US budget for foreign aid .  Trump is cutting it, with drastic consequences. Nicholas Kris...
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Americans Think the Federal Government Should Ensure Health Coverage

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62% of U.S. adults say it is the federal government’s responsibility to ensure all Americans have healthcare coverage. New data: https://t.c...
Saturday, November 23, 2024

Commuinicating Health Information

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Many   posts  have  discussed   myths  and  misinformation  -- especially about  COVID  and  vaccines . Liz Essley Whyte at WSJ: Health auth...
Thursday, August 15, 2024

DEI and Health Care

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Many   posts  have  dealt  with  racial   issues . Theo Francis and Melanie Evans at WSJ: Black men and women are at least two times as like...
Sunday, August 11, 2024

Euthanasia Opinion

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 Rachael Yi at Gallup : Americans’ current views on the legality of euthanasia , a procedure in which a physician intentionally acts to end ...
Friday, June 28, 2024

Support for Social Security and Healthcare Coverage

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Many posts  have  discussed   Social Security  and health care . Pew : A large majority of voters (80%) – including 82% of Biden supporters...
Thursday, March 14, 2024

Myths and Misinformation About the Measles Vaccine

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Measles Vaccines and Misinformation in the Courts: A Snapshot From the KFF Health Misinformation Tracking Poll Audrey Kearney, Ashley Kirzin...
Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Life Expectancy Ticks Up in 2022

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Mike Stobbe at AP: U.S. life expectancy rose last year — by more than a year — but still isn’t close to what it was before the COVID-19 pa...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

American Men and Life Expectancy

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  A release from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health We’ve known for more than a century that women outlive men. But new research ...