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HPV vaccinination---this is real, people

HPV vaccination saves lives---maybe yours

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The Right's got nothing on healthcare

If you aren't part of the solution, you're probably a Republican

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Flu hype?

I'm branching out from my usual blog because of the threat this flu season represents.  (Addendum below)

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Balancing health care costs on the backs of doctors

Should we tax doctors to support health care?

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Are you a 99214 with 250.02, 401.1, and 272.2?

Medical visits are billed via a Byzantine system of codes that no one understands.

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Quackery in health care reform bill

Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) and others are going to kill health care reform.

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Don't let quackery and faith healing ruin health care reform

In my last diary, some readers wouldn't believe it.

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Why the fuss about faith healing?

My last couple of diaries addressed funding for faith healing in health reform bills.  What's the fuss?

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Faith healing required by law: HR 3962 has faith-healing amendment

HR 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, will allow states to mandate insurance payments for faith-healing.  

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Morality: a view from the left

The Right is fundamentally immoral, but you already knew that, didn't you?

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Anti-vaccine cranks--ignorant, and immoral

The antivaccine movement is deeply immoral.

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The "R" word: why we shouldn't fear health care rationing

Health care rationing is a fact.  It's time to embrace it.

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Why I won't be prescribing medical marijuana

Marijuana isn't ready for the prescription pad

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Democracy is hard

Democracy is hard and forces us to confront our biggest fears.

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Fake medicine to get Ontario's imprimatur: it can happen here, too

In reforming health care, we must not open the door to the legitimization of quackery.

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Rush Limbaugh just doesn't get it---or maybe he does

Rush thinks the American health care system is A-OK!

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Fascism and the New Right

In this re-post from my primary blog, I explore the fascist characteristics of the New Right.

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Pope: Using a condom is like mugging someone with a lead pipe

The Pope's recent writings on condom use are sure to clear up nothing.

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No true Republican...

Everyone at the Club thinks Santorum is nuts. But he is white.

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Confederate flag apologists are all racist a-holes

I'm fairly sure anyone reading this pretty much thinks the Confederate flag is a symbol of hate worthy only of ridicule. Much of that ridicule has unfortunately gone toward stereotyping Confederate...

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Book review: "Aurora" by Kim Stanley Robinson

Science fiction fans tend to be partisans of particular sub-genres.  Robinson tends to be grouped with the "hard scifi" folks, but his attention to good science in his latest work aids the literary...

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Trump Owns The First Amendment

Let’s understand why Donald Trump has not been deprived of his First Amendment rights.(Context: Tonight, Trump canceled a rally in Chicago as Trump supporters and protestors exercised their First...

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Trump the Fascist

After the murder of millions of civilians in WWII, the world looked around and wondered, “How the hell did that happen?” Fascism played a large role, but has been difficult to define.  We usually...

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Genocide?

Genocide is nothing new to humanity. People probably tried to wipe out entire clans with flint axes. But industrial-scale murder was perfected in the 20th century. The Holocaust used mass media, mass...

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