Category Archives: Health

Book Review: Nudge by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

Posted on November 30, 2009 by shaunmiller

Suppose that you were in charge of a school district and you were given the responsibility of making the students healthier.  Thus, you have a few options: Take away all of the candy and soda from the vending machines. Serve … Continue reading →

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Requiem for the Right, Health Care Myths, and How to Love the Bomb

Posted on September 11, 2009 by shaunmiller

In this weeks Newsweek, there were three interesting articles.  I’ll put them forth and express my opinion as well. Requiem for the Right This article talks about how the political right must do some drastic changes or else the Republican … Continue reading →

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How Taxes Help You

Posted on September 1, 2009 by shaunmiller

Many people complain about taxes, but most don’t realize that taxes are beneficial to society, and thus you.  The way I see it, taxes are taking a step backwards initially.  But because it brings out good benefits, the result is … Continue reading →

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Zakaria on America’s Problem + 25 Things You Should Know

Posted on August 22, 2009 by shaunmiller

In this weeks Newsweek, Fareed Zakaria makes a great argument that America’s biggest flaw is that we can’t fix something, unless it’s a crisis. For example, when the economy started to burst, we immediately sprang into action and tried to … Continue reading →

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The World’s Worst Health Care Reforms

Posted on August 19, 2009 by shaunmiller

are apparently Russia, Turkmenistan, China, and the USA. You can read all about it here.  As the site says: The United States has the rare distinction of being both one of the world’s richest countries and having one of its … Continue reading →

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Peter Singer on Health Care

Posted on August 14, 2009 by shaunmiller

The ever controversial philosopher, Peter Singer has opined his view that we need to reform health care and fast. You have advanced kidney cancer. It will kill you, probably in the next year or two. A drug called Sutent slows … Continue reading →

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Answers to US Health Care

Posted on August 13, 2009 by shaunmiller

BBC has provided answers, in clear language, about our health care system and the proposals to fix it.

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Hillary Clinton’s Statement on CNN’s GPS

Posted on August 10, 2009 by shaunmiller

This past Sunday on Fareed Zarkia’s GPS on CNN, Hillary Clinton said something that I found striking.  Indeed, it sounds similar to Rawls.  This is what she said roughly: There must be, what we would call a safety net, in … Continue reading →

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Obesity and the Fastness of Food

Posted on May 6, 2009 by shaunmiller

Taken from the article: Here I’ve plotted out the relationship between time the average person in a given country spends eating and that country’s obesity rate (as measured by the percentage of the national population with a body mass index … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Against Happiness, In Praise of Melancholy by Eric Wilson

Posted on April 10, 2009 by shaunmiller

After looking through this, I was expecting something different.  Based on the title, I was expecting to have a psychological bent to it.  It has some of it, but there’s more of a literature outlook to it.  Wilson uses various … Continue reading →

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