Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Britain’s health care system is again having problems. This time, the problem is that physicians are over-prescribing painkillers, causing addictive behavior — and doing so despite strong official guidelines to the contrary. This could just be a medical trend, but one does wonder if it’s also because doctor’s in Britain
Continue readingOne of the most striking things about the Jewish Bible is the respect it demands for dead bodies. As a result, Jewish ritual holds that the dead cannot be mutilated in any way and must be interred as quickly as possible — preferably within 24 hours of death. Desecration is
Continue readingBritain’s ailing national health care system continues to try to heal itself, usually at patient’s expense. I don’t know about you, but this proposal doesn’t strike me as something that’s going to result in improved health care: Millions of people with arthritis, asthma and even heart failure will be urged
Continue readingI won’t quibble with the need to distribute health care more evenly across America. I will fight, though, against putting health care in the government’s hands. Think of the DMV, think of airport security, think of the IRS, think of any interaction you’ve had with a government entity that has
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