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The ER is NOT the answer 12 Oct 2012 | 10:48 pm
I couldn’t stay away from the Civic Center yesterday. Mitt Romney was coming to speak and I had to be there to counter his “the emergency room works fine” lie. See, Mitt believes people can get the ca...
The great migration 10 Sep 2012 | 10:43 pm
I’m migrating my blog entries over to our new site, www.wnchealthadvocates.org, reading some of them as I go along. It’s a long process, but it’s interesting to see how we have evolved from when we s...
It’s about women’s health care 6 Sep 2012 | 05:52 am
I went to Charlotte yesterday with my friend, Sarah Skinner, to attend the Planned Parenthood Yes We Can rally just across the way from the DNC site. I didn’t go because of abortion; I went because mi...
Supporting women’s health care 3 Sep 2012 | 09:54 pm
I’m heading to Charlotte tomorrow with my friend Sarah Skinner. Sarah and I have a lot in common — we’re a couple of old hippies who think access to health care is the most important issue of the day....
Changing our name 27 Aug 2012 | 10:48 pm
It’s not always easy letting go of something with an emotional connection as strong as the one I have to Mike, but there comes a time when it becomes necessary. That time has come for our name. Life o...
A guide to affordable healthy eating 21 Aug 2012 | 10:54 pm
I have railed against fast food and processed food rather frequently on this blog (and in person), and people usually claim that low-income people can’t afford healthy food. Well, the Environmental Wo...
The truth about Obama’s “raid ” on Medicare 21 Aug 2012 | 04:31 am
I don’t want to be political here, but I need to correct some falsehoods out there, especially the one about President Obama “stealing $716 billion from Medicare. Here’s the truth, as told by the New ...
Bullying as a public health issue 15 Aug 2012 | 11:28 pm
In the last few years, physicians have begun to recognize various forms of violence as a public health issue. Certainly, with the number of people who are shot simply because they are in the wrong pla...
More problems for a broken system 11 Aug 2012 | 11:45 am
At a board meeting for Western Highlands Area Program this morning, parents came forward to talk about how their children were being left to fend for themselves in a system where funds keep shrinking ...
Gaps in care will improve under Obamacare 10 Aug 2012 | 02:54 am
A new study by the Commonwealth Fund suggests that gaps in health coverage likely will be reduced once the Affordable Care Act kicks in fully in 2014. The study showed that more than one-third of Amer...
