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is there a “right” to health care?
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Aziz Poonawalla
In the debate over health care, and the associated debate over illegal immigration, I’ve often heard the argument that “health care isn’t one of the rights defined in the Constitution.” This argument seems to me to deny the very concept of human rights itself. Let’s make no mistake – the present era is 100% different…
Do doctors support health care reform? IBD says no, NEJM says yes
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Aziz Poonawalla
UPDATE 031810: Fox News falsely claimed that NEJM has a new poll indicating that doctors no longer support health reform; this is false. See here for details. There’s an alarmist poll out from Investors Business Daily that makes the shocking claim that almost half (46%) of America’s doctors will quit under Obama’s proposed health care…
transcript and word cloud: President Obama’s remarks on health care reform
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Aziz Poonawalla
This is the full text and word cloud of Obama’s remarks to the joint session of Congress about health care reform on September 9, 2009. It’s kind of funny that the official transcript from the White House actually includes the text of Rep. Joe Wilson’s outburst (“You lie!”) in-line. THE PRESIDENT: Madam Speaker, Vice President…
sleepwalking through Ramadan
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Aziz Poonawalla
The first week of Ramadan is often the hardest, posing the greatest challenge (both mental and physical) of integrating Ramadan into our lives. While it would be easy to claim that we simply “turn on Ramadan” like a light switch, in reality like anything else there is an initial period of borderline chaos while we…
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