Health Care

Women's deaths from overdosing on painkillers skyrocket.

"Deaths from prescription painkiller overdoses are “skyrocketing” among women, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that found such deaths have increased five-fold from 1999 to 2010.¹"

That's a huge increase.

"There were four times more deaths among women from prescription painkiller overdose than for cocaine and heroin deaths combined in 2010."

War on drugs.

US government subsidizes unhealthy food including Twinkies.

Apparently there's a well known fungal disease common to certain locations in the Southwest, but instead of checking for it and treating it first, doctors perform all kinds of other, expensive tests before checking for this. This is what we get from government running our health care system.

Butter - from healthy, pastured, grass-fed cows -  is good for you.