Archives By Day: January 1, 2020
Common Knee Surgery No Better than a Placebo
Osteoarthritis is a common degenerative disease that attacks knees and other joints. The usual arthritic symptoms of pain, stiffness and swelling prevail. The initial treatments generally are the NSAIDS (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs). When the drugs do not control the pain, which is frequently the case, arthroscopic surgery is frequently the next option. It is estimated […]
Cost of a CABG in the U.S. is 4+ times as high as Europe Margot Sanders Katz | NY Times
The International Federation of Health Plans, a group representing the CEOs of health insurers worldwide, publishes a guide every few years on the international cost for common medical services. Its newest report, on 2017 prices, came out this month. Every time, the upshot is vivid and similar: For almost everything on the list, there is […]
Increasing Medicare Coverage only worsens the problem.
There is only one discussion in the country today. It seems to be primarily how to fix Medicare. However, Medicare is the problem. Sometimes the best way to fix a problem that has been present for half a century is to discard the problem and reassess. We have discuss several issues of Medicare improvement, but […]
Communist Reformation by Perestroika and Glasnost Outraged Soviet Bureaucrats; but allowed the surfacing of a very confidential Kennedy memo:
It was during this time that the Soviet records that were made available revealed that Senator Edward Kennedy’s message to Khrushchev was found. Senator Kennedy had sent a memo to Khrushchev about our President Reagan who seemed to be out of control and what would he suggest we should do to control him? In May […]
Kentucky allow women to see an ultrasound of their baby before it is killed Supreme Court Upholds Law Letting Women See Ultrasound of Their Baby Before Abortion BY STEVEN ERTELT | DEC 9, 2019
The Supreme Court has upheld a Kentucky law allowing women a chance to see an ultrasound of their unborn baby before having an abortion. Ultrasounds are generally done before abortionist to determine the age of the baby prior to the abortion, but abortion clinics normally don’t let women see their baby because they may change […]
Climategate: Ten years later By Kelvin Kemm | November 1st, 2019 | Climate
This month marks the tenth anniversary of “Climategate” – the release of thousands of emails to and from climate scientists who had been (and still are) collaborating and colluding to create a manmade climate crisis that exists in their minds and computer models, but not in the real world. The scandal should have ended climate […]
From the archives on our first Christmas in 2002, Is There an Advantage to Competition in the Practice of Religion?
On this eve of Christmas, we pause to reflect on why people of every religious and ethnic group want to enjoy the freedoms of our country. Perhaps the radical son, David Horowitz said it well when he stated in a medical conference that at no time in history have his Jewish people enjoyed such freedom […]