Category Archives: Health Care Reform

Category Archives: Health Care Reform

What’s missing from the mammo debate

By kathy | Published: November 27, 2009
Earth to public health pundits: you can’t correct one extreme by swinging to the opposite extreme. Here’s a super-important issue that this whole mammography debate is only glancing off: no one is offering anything to pre-menopausal women. Yes, I understand that the epidemiology shows little or no benefit. Yes, I understand that (1) the [...]
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Go Dutch, for Health

By kathy | Published: November 15, 2009
A year and a half ago, I found myself strapped to a backboard in the back of an ambulance, unable to answer a simple question. My car had been totaled by a driver who was too important for red lights, giving me what a yogi would describe as a perfect opportunity to practice “just [...]
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Does Whole Foods Cause Cancer?

By kathy | Published: October 26, 2009
What do you get when you cross Marie Antoinette with a natural food conglomerate? If you guessed an out-of-touch tofu tycoon spouting “Let them eat organic beets,” you win! Earlier this summer Whole Foods CEO John Mackey came out with a pompous polemic on health care reform, complete with his very own epidemiological theories. If you’re [...]
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The Dog Ate Megan McArdle’s Homework

By kathy | Published: October 25, 2009
One of the ugliest features of the health care debate, aside from the media’s willingness to spread unadulterated garbage (death panels, anyone?), is that otherwise smart, thoughtful people are weighing in with boatloads of nonsense. Catching up on my reading a few weeks ago I ran across this rambling and conclusory post by Megan McArdle, [...]
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