asahi.com : 18% tax one way to pay for pensions - ENGLISH
The consumption tax rate would have to be raised to up to a mind-boggling 18 percent for the government to fund basic pensions through taxes alone.
More medical quackery from the “medical industry”
Vitamin supplements may increase risk of death | Science | The Guardian
Vitamin supplements taken by millions of people do not increase life expectancy and may raise the risk of a premature death , according to a review of 67 studies with more than 230,000 subjects.
Daily Kos: Insurers target the sickest: Say bye bye to $20 prescription co-pays
Co-Payments Go Way Up for Drugs With High PricesHealth insurance companies are rapidly adopting a new pricing system for very expensive drugs, asking patients to pay hundreds and even thousands of dollars for prescriptions for medications that may save their lives or slow the progress of serious diseases.
With the new pricing system, insurers abandoned the traditional arrangement that has patients pay a fixed amount, like $10, $20 or $30 for a prescription, no matter what the drug’s actual cost. Instead, they are charging patients a percentage of the cost of certain high-priced drugs, usually 20 to 33 percent, which can amount to thousands of dollars a month.
Following yesterday’s great news that almost twice as many American physicians support National Health Insurance (59%) as oppose it (32%), I thought that I would provide a provide an alphabetic list of State organizations supporting single payer universal health care coverage. Despite the “Physician” in the name of some of these organizations, they are open to all. You may wish to hook-up with the one nearest you:
AL Health Care for Everyone - Alabama HealthCareForEveryone@charter.net
CA Nurses Association: http://www.calnurses.org/
CA Physicians’ Alliance: http://capa.pnhp.org/
CA Health Care for All: http://www.healthcareforall.org/
CA One-Care-Now: http://www.onecarenow.org/…
CO Health Care for All: http://www.healthcareforallcolorado.org/
CT Coalition for Universal Health Care: http://cthealth.server101.com/
DE Informed Civic/Political Coalition: http://deinformedvoters.org/
FL PNHP: http://www.tbpnhp.org/
FL for Health Security: http://www.ffhs.org/
GA for a Common Sense Health Plan: http://www.commonsensehealthplan.org/
IL Health Care for All: http://www.healthcareforallillinois.org/
IN Hoosiers for Commonsense Health Plan: http://www.hchp.info/
KS Heartland Health Care for All http://healthcareforall.kumc.edu/
KY PNHP: http://www.kyhealthcare.org/
ME People’s Alliance: http://www.mainepeoplesalliance.org/
MD Health Care for All Coaltion: http://www.mdsinglepayer.org
MA Campaign for Single Payer: http://www.masscare.org/
MA Affordable Health Insurance for Everyone: http://healthcareformass.org/
MA Alliance to Defend Health Care: http://www.massdefendhealthcare.org/
MI Universal Health Care Access Network: http://www.michuhcan.com/
MN Universal Health Care Coalition: http://www.muhcc.org/
MN Citizens Organized Acting Together: http://www.coact.org/
MO for Single Payer Healthcare: http://www.mosp.us/…
MS PNHP: http://www.pnhp-mo.org/
NH PNHP: http://www.granitestate-pnhp.org/
NY Metro Chapter of PNHP: http://www.pnhpnyc.org/
NY State Capital District PNHP: http://capitaldistrictpnhp.blogspot.com/
NC Committee to Defend Health Care: http://www.ncdefendhealthcare.org/
NC Healht Care for All North Carolina: http://www.HealthCareforAllNC.org/
OH Single-Payer Action Network: http://www.spanohio.org/
OH PNHP Ohio http://www.pnhpohio.org/
OH Health Care for All Ohio http://healthcareforallohio.org/
OR Health Care for All: http://www.healthcareforalloregon.org/
PA Philly Area Committee to Defend Health Care: http://www.phillyhealth.org/
PA http://phillyhealth.blogspot.com/
RI Everybody In-Nobody Out: http://www.everybodyinnobodyout.org/…
TX Health Care for All: http://www.healthcareforalltexas.org/
UT Health Alliance: http://www.utahhealthalliance.org/
VT Health Care for All: http://www.vthca.org/
WA Health Care for All: http://www.healthcareforallwa.org/
WA PNHP: http://www.pnhpwesternwashington.org/
WV Mountain State PNHP: http://mountainstatepnhp.com/
WI Coalition for Health: http://www.wisconsinhealth.org/
WY Voices Foundation: http://www.wyoming-voices.org/
For Single-Payer Actions in Your State:
http://www.pnhp.org/…
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http://www.pnhp.org/…
More State Contacts:
http://www.healthcare-now.org/…
State-by-State Legislation in Process:
http://www.ncsl.org/…
Health and Health Care Facts in Your State:
http://www.statehealthfacts.org/
TheStar.com | News | MDs marvel at blood pressure drug combo
An international drug trial that could change the way high blood pressure is controlled has shown a combination of two common hypertension medications can bring the often-lethal condition under control, even in the most dangerous cases.In the trial, which was stopped early because the results were so positive, researchers found patients who took a so-called ACE-inhibitor and CCB combination pill suffered 20 per cent fewer major cardiac events, including death from heart attack and stroke.
The drug combination also effectively controlled blood pressure levels for 80 per cent of patients with the most serious hypertensions.
The secret to happiness
“By the time you’re 70, if you’re still physically fit, then, on average, you’re as happy and mentally healthy as a 20-year-old,” said one of the authors of the study, Andrew Oswald.So why does middle age bring such unhappiness?
BBC NEWS | Health | Pesticide Parkinson’s link strong
There is strong evidence that exposure to pesticides significantly increases the risk of Parkinson’s disease, experts believe.
Senior sex raises eyebrows - USATODAY.com
The news that sexual interest and activity doesn’t wane with the years may have shocked the kids and grandkids, but there are knowing nods and a few grumbles among the senior set and those who work with them. A study of the sex lives of 3,005 men and women ages 57-85, published in August in the New England Journal of Medicine, sparked talk about such frisky behavior by those old enough to know better.
Pravda.Ru: Russian news and analysis
About 118,000 Russians suffer from active TB
About 118,000 people have been diagnosed with active form of tuberculosis in Russia during 2007. The number of TB-infected individuals practically equals the number reported in 2006. The TB rate among children does not decrease: 3,372 children under 14 years of age were infected in 2007. The TB sickness rate in Russia made up 82.6 per 100,000 people in 2007. The highest rates of TB infection are registered in the Far East of Russia and Siberia
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