Joan Retsinas
A risky but popular shortcut in the battle on obesity
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Imagine you are obese. For a chunk of the population, that is not much of a stretch. Your physician has warned you...
Give the gift of healthy living
Forget the chenille scarf. Your uncle doesn’t need one. At least two other relatives will be giving him scarves.
Forget the bathrobe for your...
The ills of health care deserve honest discussion
Hot sticky weather brings out gardeners’ nemesis: kudzu. The tenacious weed grows and grows, thriving in all soils. If unchecked, it will take over...
Philanthropy– filling health care void Substitutes for shrinking government support
The prime cynic, la Rochefoucauld, maintained that the prime spur to charity was self-interest. (A famous maxim: "The virtues join with self-interest as...
Commentary: Supplemental insurance shatters illusion
The slick prospectus asks disquieting questions: Will my HMO pay for the best treatments if I get sick? Will it let me see...
Commentary: The lungless among us
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway debated the difference between the rich and the poor. Was it only money? I think I know the...
Opinion: Decision to cut off U.S. aid to D.A.R.E. hailed
Good news about D.A.R.E. -- the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program that puts police officers in thousands of 5th grade classrooms. The good...
Commentary: Pragmatism in, campaign mantra out
Forget Compassionate Conservatism, President George W. Bush's campaign mantra. Nobody knew what it meant anyway. Did conservatives feel the pain of the...
Commentary: Bureaucratic legalisms in land of Medicare, uncare
Why not a Museum of Bureaucratic Legalism, so future generations can study
the juridicial workings of American minds at the millenium?...
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