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Health Care Reform for the Good of All

March 20, 2010 By Brian Leave a Comment

Well, the 2010 mid-term elections are over. And it's still clear to me that democracies are wonderful but they suck when it comes to reaching consensus on critical issues like health care … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economy, Government, health, Health Care, Health Insurance, Society Tagged With: health, health care reform, health insurance, healthcare reform in the united states, insurance companies, medicine, social issues

Health Care Reform Stifled by Drug Companies

November 17, 2009 By Brian Leave a Comment

The Washington Post reported two unrelated stories that, considered together, demonstrate a concerted effort by large drug companies and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to kill health care reform. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: health, Health Care, Politics Tagged With: controlling health care cost, drug companies, health, health care reform, health care system, health economics, health legislation, healthcare reform, medicare, medicine, publicly funded health care

High Health Care Costs Due to Lack of Competition

October 11, 2009 By Brian Leave a Comment

Unlike any other industry in the United States, the health care system is destroying our economy due to lack of competition. Despite all the arguments from health care experts, the "industry," a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Health Care, Health Insurance Tagged With: health care reform, health costs, health legislation, insurance companies, medicine

Great White Sharks Visit Golden Gate Bridge

Californian’s are a strange lot, no doubt, but neither earthquakes nor floods nor swine flu nor collapsing bridges bring us to our knees. And that goes for sharks too. We’re a hardy bunch here in the Bay Area and we treat recent reports of great whites poking around the Golden Gate Bridge like water off [...]

Are Good Ideas that Solve Problems in Short Supply?

When was the last time you came up with a good idea? Not just a “good idea” but a mind-blowing idea that solved business or personal problems? I’m guessing, like the rest of us, you’d say “not recently.” It’s like remembering the last time you put a fresh box of baking soda in your fridge [...]

MobiSnippets are Coming Soon? What are MobiSnippets? What Do They Want?

They’re’s a rumor that something called “MobiSnippets”are coming to MobileBeyond, MobileDiscoveries, IM-Mobile and my personal blog. So I’ve scratched my head, asked all the neighbors what they are, and no one can tell me. Suzie told me they’re not sharks like the ones that visited the Golden Gate Bridge. Or those icebergs that invaded New [...]

Reality In a Land of Dreams and Nightmares

I awakened the other morning while still in REM dream sleep. Although I don’t recall if my eyes opened into reality from a dream or nightmare (it could have been a mix of both), I was uncomfortable with the experience. You’ve probably experienced a similar occurrence as your alarm clock went off. You’re in a [...]

Cannabis Clubs for People with Pain Hit San Jose

People suffering with painful illnesses keep getting hit up by city law enforcement. They’re at least 20 states across the nation where cannabis clubs that secure pot for medicinal purposes flourish. And San Jose is one of them. Per this morning’s Mercury News, patients used to have to trek up to San Francisco to get [...]

Singing Bringing Tears of Hope in a Troubled World

Today was our annual Christmas concert at Holy Spirit Church in Fremont, California. Holy Spirit is blessed with a youth choir, a parish children’s choir, as well as two other choirs, one singing mostly contemporary pieces and another a variety of contemporary, traditional and classical. Singing offers significant health benefits, such as prolonged life and [...]

Blog Crime and Copyright Infringment

Checked your blog for content theft lately? While the Internet has become an essential part of our lives, it’s also a rip-off channel for blog crime and copyright infringement thieves who steal copyrighted material. People steal intellectual property when copying your blog content to their sites. Sending threatening letters about copyright infringement to website and [...]

Where Angels not Mom’s Fear to Tread

Our Mom’s are intimately part of our lives–from birth, as we grow up, eventually separating to live our own lives. But sometimes things happen. Illness strikes us. Things go wrong. We’re incapable of taking care of ourselves. And that’s when Mom’s come where Angels fear to tread. That’s the case with Elsie, a 75-year old [...]