healthcare system

Whenever we have the opportunity to be together (generally around a fire of some sort and with a moderate level of libation), we tend to focus our discussions on solutions. Each of us brings his own brand of problem solving to the table and the discussion usually rolls into the wee hours of the morning. This Porch is built around this simple rubric of solution oriented debate.

There's a wonderful piece on NPR's website that discusses MS and how folks deal with in the US healthcare system and UK NHS.

The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee has endorsed Obama.

as posted by Alan Gable at AnAmericanFrontPorch.com
Cultivating American society’s culture of life is the next step in our conservative agenda. Life is the most basic of all human gifts and it should be and generally is valued as such. Through our healthcare system, we place a high premium on life. This is why our doctors [...]

Cultivating American society's culture of life is the next step in our conservative agenda. Life is the most basic of all human gifts and it should be and generally is valued as such. Through our healthcare system, we place a high premium on life.

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Walker Duncan reports back on Senator Bob Corker discussing health care in the round at Monroe Carrel Jr. Children’s Hospital:

Jeff Jacoby has a solid assessment, albeit a week late, about the previous week’s dust-up between the TennGOP’s ad released to coincide with Mi

FLAG PINS? Is that what George Snuffalu[bleep]us thinks is one of the most important topics that needs to be discussed in a Presidential Debate?!?

Head scratcher...

Hillary often discusses the unfairness built into the healthcare system: That discrimination by race and gender is barred, but that insurance companies are allowed to discriminate against the sick.

Today in Lorain, though, she either scrambled the line, or upped the ante:

"I actually think that it's unconstitutional, what the insurance companies are doing," she sai