The News Review:
- Must you buy health insurance?
- Minds opening to alternative healing
- Boredom Busters Observer-Dispatch
- Artist to donate assets to Jonson Gallery
- Demi hails blood-sucking therapy
- Jacob S. Hacker: Let’s try socialized medicine
- Indian video encyclopedia launches exclusive index pages for Ayurveda…
Must you buy health insurance?
Christian Science Monitor – Mar 26, 2008
What representation do we have in the insurance firms whose products we would be required to buy, at prices and terms they set? Can we vote out an insurer’s board of directors for denying claims or paying its CEO a multimillion-dollar salary? Here, too, the Supreme Court has drawn a distinction between taxes imposed by government and mandatory fees set by entities with private interests. A health insurance mandate is essentially a forced contract, in which one party (the insurer) gets to set the terms. You must buy their policies, even if you prefer to self-insure, rely on alternative medicine, or obtain treatment outside the system. In constitutional terms, such mandates may constitute a violation of due process or a “taking of property. Requiring Person A to give money to Person B is a “taking,” whether or not something of value is given in return. Let’s say the state required every resident to buy milk, on the rationale that milk consumption benefits public health. That’s either a constitutionally forbidden taking (of money) or a violation of due process.
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Minds opening to alternative healing
Online Athens – Online Athens (subscription) – Mar 26, 2008
Each year, 2,000 new patients come to the center, Panico said, and practitioners treat an average of 800 people each month. The institute has outgrown its 4,000-square-foot facility and now is holding some classes for employees at other places such at Athens Technical College, he said. The growth in complementary medicine is a trend across the country. About 60 million Americans use complementary and alternative medicines to combat illnesses, according to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Complementary medicine gives patients who’ve been diagnosed with everything from cancer to depression and anxiety a way to cope with their pain, Panico said. And it’s working, the institute’s leaders say. “What we find is that people who come here and are able to do what we suggest that they do, they get better,” said Robin Bewley, a health education specialist and yoga teacher.
Boredom Busters Observer-Dispatch
Utica Observer Dispatch – Mar 26, 2008
, The Other Side, 2011 Genesee St. “Self-care tips to improve your health” presented by Larry Trivieri, Jr.
Artist to donate assets to Jonson Gallery
UNM Daily Lobo – UNM Daily Lobo (subscription) – Mar 26, 2008
“One of the most important things about it is that it is given to people in different disciplines, and I think that is a very big aspect of the peace prize,” he said. “Only when people of all different disciplines point their own lives at peace can we really have peace in the world. “This year’s winners were Stephen Littlejohn, a mediator; Arti Prasad, a doctor of alternative medicine; William Gross, an engineer; and Edward Hakim Bellamy, a poet. Littlejohn said he was honored to receive the award. “I do think of myself as a peacemaker in the broad sense of the word,” he said. “The kind of communication consulting I do is to facilitate communication processes and dialogue with various groups that are making decisions together. ” Ré is an adviser to the committee that presents the biannual awards.
Demi hails blood-sucking therapy
BBC News – Mar 26, 2008
The 45-year-old told US talk show host David Letterman she tried the treatment in Austria as part of a detox plan. She said: “You watch it swell up on your blood… then when it’s super drunk it just kind of rolls over like it is stumbling out of the bar. ”
Leeches have been used in medicine for centuries and are often used today in reconstructive surgery. The anticoagulant secreted by the creatures fights blood clots and helps restore blood flow to inflamed body parts. ‘Bite down’
But Moore said the leeches were allowed to bite her to release a “detox enzyme”. “It detoxifies your blood.
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Jacob S. Hacker: Let’s try socialized medicine
Sacramento Bee – Mar 26, 2008
(And if you find an American who’s never had to wait for care, get me their doctor’s number. ) Given how much we shell out, what’s really striking is how poor our care frequently is. Back in the 1940s and ’50s, corporate America promoted private benefits as an alternative to government insurance on the grounds that they offered better value. Now bosses — and the rest of us — are living with a raw deal that U. business would never stand for in other areas of today’s competitive economy. It’s time, in other words, to embrace a government role in health care, rather than run from it… Reducing the burden of health care on employers will allow them to compete more effectively (and on a level playing field) with foreign producers. Just as important, making coverage affordable for everyone will allow people to change jobs or start their own businesses without the fear of catastrophic costs or the hassle, expense and inadequacy of individually purchased coverage. Maybe socialized medicine doesn’t sound so bad after all. CommentsInput(“ExternalResource”, thisArticleId, gSiteLife.
Indian video encyclopedia launches exclusive index pages for Ayurveda…
The Cheers – Mar 26, 2008
Ayurveda, the Indian medical science, which dates back to the Indus valley civilization, is one of the major medical systems followed in India even today. Ayurveda uses herbal medicines mostly and offers solutions even for diseases such as paralysis, backache, diabetic neuropathy and the like. Many of the advocates of modern medicine term Ayurveda as an alternative or complementary medicine. But it is to be noted that Ayurveda developed as a full-fledged system of medicine millennia before modern medicine was composed and continues even today as a complete system of medicine. Among Indian massages, Ayurvedic massage is the most popular one. In Ayurveda, medicated herbal oils and herbal powders are used for this. Kalaripayattu, the martial art form of Kerala, India, has developed its own treatment methods and massages which can be seen in the video.