Tag Archives | health care

Rogoff on the food industry

By on February 2, 2012 in Economics, General Discussion, Human Behavior

On the sidebar at Project syndicate is a nice article by Ken Rogoff, the economist at Harvard, entitled Coronary Capitalism. I found the following illuminating:   Consider the food industry, particularly its sometimes-malign influence on nutrition and health. Obesity rates are soaring around the entire world, though, among large countries, the problem is perhaps most [...]

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America’s suicide in graphs

By on November 26, 2011 in General Discussion

Charles Hugh Smith has some  charts which ought to scare any public health doctor.   http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2011/11/can-chronic-ill-health-bring-down-great.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+google%2FRzFQ+%28oftwominds%29     After perusing these, I can now almost understand how we let the nation decline and be taken over by the parasitic cartels of banking, real estate, sickcare, big oil, big defense, and the rest. We American citizens [...]

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US vs. Cuba

By on October 1, 2011 in Economics, General Discussion

The United States and Cuba enjoy the same overall life expectancies according to the CIA. Men in Cuba live a bit longer than men in the US; with women the opposite holds true. But the bottom line is the health care systems in both countries deliever the same basic results. However, Cuba spends far less [...]

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