Artery disease (and diabetes) are serious problems in U.S. but answer is not drugs.
Diet is the answer.
Discussion of bypass surgery.
Connection to heart bypass machine can cause measurable brain damage, called “pump head” by the nurses. Memory loss. 42% people after 5 years showed some deficit in mental abilities.
Bypass can cost 80K to 500K and evidence suggest most do not benefit from longer lives as a result in comparison to those that use drugs.
Discussion of effects of bypass surgery on Bill Clinton.
Coronary artery disease is a result of the western diet.
“I have never been inclined toward touting doomsday financial scenarios. I raise the possibility now only because, as I consider the situation portrayed in the graph of excess reserves linked above, I am unable to foresee how the Fed and the Treasury can navigate through these treacherous waters – waters that their own previous actions have whipped to a foam – without creating terrible financial and economic harm. If the dollar survives the ministrations of Bernanke, Paulson, Bush, and the Obama gang, its survival will be something of a miracle.”
“A man in Minnesota is being forced by court order to have electroshock therapy. It’s being used to treat him for psychotic episodes and it’s been going on for weeks. The patient, Ray Sandford, wants the treatment stopped and has a court hearing this week to end the electroshock sessions. Minnesota Public Radio’s Lorna Benson has the story.” | Listen Here
“Ben Sasser, the Assistant Secretary of Health, just announced that the projections for Medicare Part A funding were wrong. The Department figured out last week that Part A funding will be no longer prior to the end of Obama’s second term. What does this mean? In 2016, a hospital will submit a bill to Medicare and Medicare will simply have no money to pay. This is all within the next 8 years folks. Get ready for some serious problems.” – Source – Jay Parkinson
“Those who claim his mantle today, however, are not simply ideologues on free trade; they have become convinced that money can breed money—and, moreover, that it’s a good thing for it to do so. The only kind of manufacturing they want is the manufacturing of ever-higher stock prices.”
Will we see you at the SAICFF? The Growing Pains guy is going to be there. If your wife is in her early 30’s, like mine, this might be the cause of great excitement (not saying it is or isn’t around here). We went last year, it was fun. I get free room and board at Mom and Dad’s so it is also affordable.
“Ann Coulter is really intelligent and has guts. Out of all the mainstream conservatives, she is our best representative, which ought to tell us something..our best man is a girl.”
“Chronicles magazine has got some really good writers and thinkers, and I really like their paleo-stances, but they all remind me of a gathering of Elves at the Grey Havens preparing to sail into the distant West.”
Rick pointed out this video. This is one of the best economic videos I have seen in months. I learned a lot. Read Rick’s post for some of the details, but watch the video (1 hour long). What does the world tell us? You should own a home, it is an investment. You must have healthcare, you are irresponsible if you don’t. Paying taxes is patriotic. Get a good education, go to college. Now watch the video and guess what costs have increased the most for the average family since 1970?
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