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2002 US Total health spending and compare that to the new cases of breast cancer in the US

Posted by Roberto Enamorado on Sunday, April 3, 2011, In : Health 

I can see why doing fund raisers for benevolent causes can give people a wonderful feeling and is a wonderful idea in the intention but, there is something terribly wrong happening here.

Look at the total health spending and compare that to the new cases of breast cancer in the US. Also compare that to the Asian countries on the left. Although this problem has several factors that go unexplored in this example, I hope you can see the value in what this shows. www.bit.ly/hPBxQr





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Cows On Drugs

Posted by Roberto Enamorado on Wednesday, March 30, 2011, In : Health 



April 18, 2010
Op-Ed Contributor

Cows on Drugs

By DONALD KENNEDY

Stanford, Calif.

NOW that Congress has pushed through its complicated legislation to reform the health insurance system, it could take one more simple step to protect the health of all Americans. This one wouldn’t raise any taxes or make any further changes to our health insurance system, so it could be quickly passed by Congress with an outpouring of bipartisan support. Or could it?

More than 30 years ago, when I was commissioner o...
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A Thank You Note

Posted by Roberto Enamorado on Wednesday, March 30, 2011, In : Health 


Industrialized nations around the world have left us behind in the capacity to take care of its own citizens. Even Cuba, which is smashed by conservative media and has far less resources, has universal healthcare and has dealt with homelessness exceptionally well. This is clearly a sign of how submissive our government has become in facing corporations and when making enough effort to make a change and really work for that, it can happen even when your resources are scarce. It is not fair tha...
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Start Making Real Changes

Posted by Roberto Enamorado on Wednesday, March 30, 2011, In : Health 


British Medical Journal 2004 - "It is Clear that environmental and lifestyle factors are key determinants of human disease-accounting for perhaps 75 percent of most cancers" 

Wake up and fight the power!!! Walking a million miles for fund raising events, supporting certain NGO’s (non-governmental organizations) and NP’s (non-profits) that are poorly regulated and serve as tax shelters, career/ego boosters for board members amongst other things, in the name of for various causes? They spend...
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