Tag: Health Care - Page 2
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Michael Pollan Talks Health Care Reform, Cheap Food on the Daily Show (Video)
Photo via Vegetarian Organic Blog Michael Pollan headed to the Daily Show last night to talk about the high cost of cheap food, how health care reform may make insurance companies interested in healthier diets and better food, and the enduring pitfalls
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Nuggets of Green Goodness in the Healthcare Bill
Conservative commentator David Frum describes the American health care system: "The U.S. health care system costs too much, delivers too little and excludes too many. Americans pay 60 percent more per person for health care than any other
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6 Impending Disasters...and the Health Care Plan that Could Save You From Them
We've all seen Mad Max and been frightened, if only a bit, by how savage a future it depicts. As extreme as that world may be, there is something about its resource-hungry depravity that seems almost tangible.
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Public Option is the Cap and Trade of Health Care and We Need them Both
With the climate debate shifted over to the Senate for the time being, the House of Representatives has occupied itself with developing a health care reform plan. Recently, a consensus on this plan has slowly begun
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Surprising Agreement On The Connection Between Obesity and Healthcare Costs
Michael Pollan writes in the New York Times about the connection between the American diet and the cost of health care; Surprisingly, conservative writers like Marie-Josée Kravis are saying much the same thing,
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Obesity is Causing Higher Health Costs, So Get Skinny by Going Green
According to a new study, obesity is a leading contributor to the high costs of healthcare in America. Apparently, being fat is killing everyone’s wallet when it comes to insurance. Could going green help reduce the high
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Is Healthcare in America Green?
Is there anything right about healthcare in the United States? If you judged the industry by everything politicians are saying nowadays, my guess is that you'd say no. As I've listened to the debate over the last few
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Climate Action Vs. Health Care Reform: Is it One or the Other?
They're by far the two highest profile bills to emerge this year: the Waxman-Markey climate bill, and the health care reform bill. Both would have an enormous impact, and both are key parts of President Obama's agenda. But can
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Affordable Health Care Is Key to Innovation in our Food System
There are many factors that keep people in jobs they hate; in America, one of them is health insurance. Steph Larsen writes at the Ethicurian how the lack of health care is impeding America's
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Womens' Health Care Centre by FARE
There is so much to learn from this Women's Health Care Centre in Burkina Faso by FARE Studio. It just won the Health Category Award at the World Architecture Festival.
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Bioneers 2008: Teleosis Institute Gives Health Care a Green Rx
It's a short leap to get from the health of the world to the health of humans. The link is obvious. And yet, there is much the health care industry can do to green up.
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Health Care Without Harm: a Hippocratic Waste Oath
The medical branch has long operated following the Hippocratic Oath: "First do no harm". People started questioning the context of this promise though, when EPA published initial reports on releases of dioxin, a carcinogen which may also harm
