The Right to Healthcare

The question is sometimes asked here in America; whether healthcare is a right or a privilege. In answering this, it may be useful to look at the basis for our civil law; John Locke's theory of social contract, in which Natural Rights are exchanged for civil equivalents--in which restrictions upon the individual are to be kept to the minimum necessary to ensure a greater security:

"TO understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of... (more)

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Healthcare diagnostics acquiring a new supercomputer helper

...International Business Machines team in charge of Watson used the game show to prove the problem-solving capability of the computer. Medical questions are the newest target of the supercomputer. The problem-solving ability of Watson should, in theory, be able to provide succinct answers to healthcare diagnostic inquiries. Estimations of possible diagnosis with Watson will include some information doctors simply don't have time to consider. Personal blogs, off-label utilizes of narcotics, and emerging research is all going to be considered in calculating the result of diagnostic... (more)

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Healthcare Receives Incentives for Going Paperless

Many businesses have already adopted a document management solution for their content due to the numerous advantages it offers, including increased efficiency, disaster recovery capabilities and ease of use. Well, now the healthcare industry can add ‘profit by millions of dollars’ to the list of benefits.

States are beginning to introduce programs to increase the Healthcare industry’s use of document and business process management. The objective is to improve quality of patient care, patient safety and patient involvement in treatment options and is funded by the federal government.

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Small Business Can Claim New Healthcare Tax Credit

...form used by tax-exempt organizations to document unrelated business income. In 2011, the Form 990-T will be revised to include the claiming of small business health care tax credit.

The Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March included the small business tax credit on healthcare. The hope is that the act and the tax credit will drive small business employers to consider offering their employees some type of health insurance coverage or to continue using the coverage the company’s workers already have in spite of the recent economic woes and cutbacks.

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Early Marriage High Horse, Healthcare Informants, & Not About Philosophy

...often point out how much America has to learn from non-Western cultures. Perhaps we should start by emulating North Korean policies towards illegal aliens. Instead of lavishing border violators with welfare benefits and the like, we give them harsh prison sentences.

Critics of Obama's healthcare plan should know that they are being watched. The White House is asking Americans to report to them the names of anyone spreading "disinformation" regarding insurance reform proposals. One might point out that, to a liberal, disinformation is anything they disagree with. When this call for... (more)

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Is The 2012 Election Better Than the Black Death?

...and interact with. We want these things for a reasonable cost – taxes per se are not the problem, despite the lunatic ravings of the Norquistas. The problem is the fairness of the tax system, and not just fair to the wealthy, but to everyone. Without taxes, we have no roads, no schools, no healthcare, no defense, no real agricultural riches. Most of the things that provide us with jobs in this society exist because our taxes built the infrastructure that make other businesses possible in the first place, a concept that most people these days seem to have a pretty hard time wrapping their... (more)

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20th Annual Pan African Film & Arts Festival Awards

...as a vehicle to initiate dialogue on the important issues of our times.

The Pan African Film & Arts Festival is an official event of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa's Celebration of African American Heritage Month.PAFF is sponsored by Macy's,Wells Fargo Bank,Aids Healthcare Foundation,City of Los Angeles,Los Angeles County Arts Commission,as well as Los Angeles Councilmembers Bernard C.Parks(District 8),Jan Perry(District 9),and Herb J.Wesson Jr.(District 10),Sony Pictures Entertainment,The Brotherhood Crusade,The Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs,The... (more)

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No, I Can’t

... giving has increased by 53% since 2007, not at all bad in the midst of one of the most serious recessions since the 1930s. The total contributions across all respondents in cash and products amounts to more than $15.5billion. The biggest increase of all has been among companies working in the healthcare sector.

There are individuals like Mark Zuckerberg, Mr Facebook himself, who has contributed $100 million to create a better grading system in public schools. And then there is the financier Toby Forstman, who responded to America’s failing education system by setting up the... (more)

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We will work until we die!

...ago, I looked towards the developed West and was wrapped in envy and a sense of inadequacy. Middle class westerners had plenty of material goods, excellent physical infrastructure, plentiful jobs, rules of conduct that were respected, guaranteed incomes, predictable lifestyles, excellent healthcare and a sense of entitlement that the world and their governments owed them a good quality of life. I felt shafted. In my part of the world we had import bans, shortages of most goods, local industry not worth talking about, corrupt governments, patchy healthcare, crumbling colonial... (more)

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Talking Books with Medical Thriller Author Rudy Mazzocchi

Rudy A. Mazzocchi is best known as a medical device and biotechnology entrepreneur, inventor, and angel investor, with a history of starting new technology ventures throughout the U.S. and Europe. He’s been privileged to have the opportunity to see the newest innovations in healthcare and work with some of the most brilliant researchers, scientists and physicians in the industry.

Authoring more than 50 patents, he has helped pioneer new companies involved in cardiology, oncology, orthopedics, neurosurgery and even embryonic stem-cell development. Through these efforts, he has... (more)

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