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The ultimate insurance company cost savings I had a very disturbing conversation with a physician who is employed by an insurance company last week. I admitted a patient in the hospital for very clear-cut reasons. She is one of my few non-compliant patients, doing none of the strategies I advocate--no fish oil, no vitamin D, no correction of her substantial lipoprotein abnormalities, not even medication. Much of this was because of difficult finances, some of it is because she is from the generation (she is in her late 70s) that tends to ignore preventive health, some of it is because she is...

Eat less saturated fat: that has been the take-home message from the U.S. government for the past 30 years. But while Americans have dutifully reduced the percentage of daily calories from saturated fat since 1970, the obesity rate during that time has more than doubled, diabetes has tripled, and heart disease is still the country’s biggest killer. Now a spate of new research, including a meta-analysis of nearly two dozen studies, suggests a reason why: investigators may have picked the wrong culprit. Processed carbohydrates, which many Americans eat today in place of fat, may increase the risk of obesity, diabetes...

Orly Taitz Claims She Can Have President Obama "Out Of Office In 30 Days"September 14, 2009 2:00 pm ET A few quick snippets... Judge David Carter, Central District of California, ordered early discovery; Obama has 30 days to produce his records, including his hospital, birth certificate, name of doctor, and all of the signatures.

Ortho is promoting promiscuity and unsafe sex in young UNMARRIED women. A commercial for birth control devices by OrthoEvra shows a young woman saying: "My life goes a million miles a minute, so remembering to take the pill every DAY can be such a hassle. So I thought the weekly patch might be a good thing." The problem is, this young woman is NOT wearing a wedding or engagement ring on her left hand's 'ring' finger but she is instead wearing a large EXTREMELY OBVIOUS ring on her NEXT finger (closer to her thumb) which typically indicates an unattached...

Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation Urges Wife of Disabled Jacksonville Man to Err on the Side of LifeTo: National DeskContact: Pamela F. Hennessy for the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation, 727-445-1766, phenn@zimp.orgCLEARWATER, Fl., May 14 /Christian Wire Service/ –- The volunteers with the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation, along with the family of Terri Schiavo, are urging Jacksonville, Florida resident, Eliza Thomas, to allow her 34 year old husband to live.The Foundation has learned that Scott Thomas suffered brain injury in September of 2004 and has since been incapacitated and dependent on others. His mother, Pamela Patton, has petitioned the courts for guardianship of the...

Jim Robinson is the founder and operator of FreeRepublic.com. He posted this editorial on Terri Schiavo, Sunday April 3rd. I said it was wrong to kill her. That is my opinion. Nothing can change it. No list of "facts" will ever change it. And I put "facts" in quotes because most of the so-called "facts" posted here were in fact "opinion." Whether it was a poster's opinion, a reporter's opinion, her husband's opinion, a relative's opinion, a supporter's opinion, a detractor's opinion, a politician's opinion, a lawyer's opinion, a doctor's opinion, the president's opinion, the governor's opinion, or even...

  New Therapy Improves Swallow Function   Swallowing. It's like blinking or breathing - you never think about it. You just do it. Thousands of times a day. Unless you're one of 15 million Americans who suffer from dysphagia, a painful, often debilitating disorder that makes swallowing extremely difficult or even impossible.   Henry Sroka, a 58 year-old businessman, is one of those people. Due to a neurological condition, Henry's epiglottis, the mechanism that protects the airway during swallowing, wouldn't close properly. Therefore, the simple act of managing his own saliva became a problem. And eating or drinking became...

Father Frank's homily on Terri Schiavo, and advice to Michael [An F.R. exclusive] ... The last time I had the privilege of preaching from this pulpit, was a few days before the national elections of the United States of America last November, and do you remember how I concluded my remarks? I said, I know that the outcome of this election will be favorable to the cause of life, because I know you. That's what I said; because I know you, the people of God, who always respond when there is a need. Who always respond when they are called...

- - - BOYCOTT the BOYCOTT'ers - - - We have new evidence of 5 companies that apparently practice advanced censorship. The Vietnam Veterans who were former-POWs and wish to share their opinions of how John Kerry injured them and our military in 1971, are being censored by a group called "Boycott Sinclair Advertisers". This group encourages consumers to threaten advertisers with a boycott unless they stop advertising with Sinclair. The website promises to QUIETLY remove those advertisers from the boycott list if they agree to their demands. But our FR champions of truth and FREE SPEECH do not...

The "Love Test" Bush 70% - - Kerry 30% The word LOVE was used 10 times in the 3rd debate: George W. Bush: I love (1) the fact that people pray for me and my family all around the country. I believe we ought to love (2) our neighbor like we love (3) ourself (Bush said this first)I love (4) the strong women around me. I can't tell you how much I love (5) my wife and our daughters. I guess you would say it was love (6) at first sight. I love (7) the optimism in that painting,...

Is Soros 'gaming' the IEM Iowa Electronic Market? Conservatives in recent days have been hailing the Iowa Electronic Market [election stock market], since it acts very much like a real-time-poll. It measures how much each side is willing to part with their own hard-earned cash to bet on their candidate. But the flaw in the IEM, is that the daily GRAPH of CLOSING PRICES CAN be easily manipulated by rich-guys, by BUYING UP ALL the contracts just BEFORE midnight, and then covering your bets in the opposite direction AFTER midnight. THAT apparently happened last night, and somewhere, there are democRATS...

Today: Fishing with Roland Martin, 8 p.m., ...bass fishing with President George W. Bush on Bush's Texas ranch. [ALONG WITH BARNEY!]

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Blue Apples, privacy, and Web Bugs at FR Some freepers use a visible graphic or 'icon' on their every post such as one person that uses a "blue apple" from his own home webspace. Icons like that can serve as a 'web-bug' to harvest personal info from freepers. Now I realize FR doesn't allow java, javascript, vbscript, or active-x content so the risk is lowered. But some of these same freepers are also amatuer programmers with access to detailed webmaster server-access statistics. Those stats can collect the IP addresses, and a number of other environment variables from every computer that...

Attorneys argue over questioning of witnesses in Schiavo case By VICKIE CHACHERE Associated Press Writer CLEARWATER, Fla. -- The attorney for a man seeking to end his severely brain-damaged wife's life argued Monday that Gov. Jeb Bush shouldn't be allowed to gather new evidence in the case because the judge has all the information he needs to decide if the law keeping Terri Schiavo alive is unconstitutional. The governor's attorney countered that questioning is needed because lawmakers were uncomfortable with Michael Schiavo's motives in wanting to withdraw food and hydration from his wife. Those questions are central to determining whether...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. John Kerry has amassed enough delegates to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination, according to a CNN survey. (more)

There is still time to tune in Greta tonight, She will be interviewing Florida State's Attorney Ken Connor tonight regarding the Terri Schiavo law and lawsuit. The latest we HAD heard on this was that a new judge, Judge Nelly Khouzam 'may' have taken over on the Terri Schiavo constitutionality question, effective January 1st 2004. Judge Baird may have RUSHED to judge this law, holding a 'quickie' mini-hearing on his LAST DAY as judge in civil court. Judge Baird claimed he had heard enough to make a ruling on summary judgement, but he appears to have been barred from ruling...

<p>MIAMI, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- A hearing in Clearwater, Fla., Tuesday will start the process of determining whether "Terri's law" is constitutional.</p> <p>Terri Schiavo, 40, has been in what doctors call a persistent vegetative state for 14 years and efforts to allow her to die have been thwarted in the state Legislature and the courts.</p>

Schiavo case deserves less-reckless handling by: Leo Sandon Tallahassee Democrat Saturday, Nov 01, 2003 In this week's latest development in the Terri Schiavo case, attorneys for husband Michael Schiavo filed a brief challenging the constitutionality of "Terri's Law," the hurriedly enacted state measure empowering Gov. Jeb Bush to keep the severely brain-damaged woman alive. Now the case is perhaps the most visible, bitterly contentious and exhaustively protracted right-to-die drama since Karen Ann Quinlan's in 1978. It exemplifies the personal, medical, legal, political, ethical and religious components that make end-of-life decisions so complicated. The problem is in the first instance a...

Professor Appointed to Probe Schiavo Case Saturday November 1, 2003 1:01 AM By VICKIE CHACHERE Associated Press Writer TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A judge appointed a University of South Florida professor on Friday to independently investigate the case of a severely brain-damaged woman at the center of a right-to-die battle. Jay Wolfson, an expert on health care financing, will report to Gov. Jeb Bush and recommend whether the stay the governor enacted to keep Terri Schiavo alive should be allowed to remain. Schiavo suffered severe brain damage when her heart stopped due to a chemical imbalance and has been in...