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You’ve probably heard the results of many studies where pharmaceutical company’s hopes and dreams and tens-of-millions-of-dollars-investments are extinguished before they wake by the placebo effect.
Well, Sugapil is here to fill the void created by those stillborn dream drugs. With sugar pills.
It’s such a relief to see honesty in marketing.
From Sugapil.com:
Harness the power of your mind.
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Apparently more Americans believe in UFOs than oppose a public option for health care insurance. Unfortunately, I think this says as much about the scientific ignorance and conspiracy-theory-craziness of Americans as it does about the state of the health care debate. Wow. Really, America? REALLY?
How about we slip some science education reform into the health [...]

First, read this:
(And watch for the spelling of words such as “public.”)
The Funniest Protest Signs Of 2009

Then, read this.
Thank you, someecards. Thank you very much.

I thought one of the major pillars of health care reform and reduced health care spending was the elimination of waste and a new emphasis on effective treatments. Now, some legislators are moving in the opposite direction and working to allow coverage of sham medicine with taxpayer dollars.
I respect the right of people to pay [...]

I couldn’t pick just one excerpt from this informative article by T.R. Reid, so I’ve included several. This article should be required reading before one is admitted to a town hall meeting.
I particularly stunned by the cost difference for MRIs in the US versus Japan: greater than an order of magnitude, which is to say, [...]

Rev. Jim Rigby, pastor of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Austin, TX, asks a valuable question in a recent article.
Excerpt:
I can’t believe I am standing today in a Christian church defending the proposition that we should lessen the suffering of those who cannot afford health care in an economic system that often treats the poor [...]