things you should know…
about the health care bill the House just passed. • Sec. 224 (p. 118) provides that 18 months after the bill becomes law, the Secretary of Health and Human Services will decide what a “qualified plan” covers and how much you’ll be legally required to pay for it. That’s like a banker telling you to...
New Life for the Pariahs – NYTimes.com
Nicholas Kristof highlights the work of an SIM doctor. Op-Ed Columnist – New Life for the Pariahs – NYTimes.com.
Obama’s bioethicist
{originally posted 30 Oct, 2009} The ‘man behind the curtain’ in the Obama administration, as it pertains to health care, is Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel. The brother of Rahm Emanuel (Obama’s former chief of staff…soon to be mayor of Chicago). will be one of the ‘elites’ empowered to make decisions for the masses. How will he...
bioethics 101
(Sorry to keep harping on health care, but as I read more about this bill and the effects it will have, I want to make sure we realize some things about bioethics: namely, its connection to theology and also some of the ramifications of federally mandated decisions that are run through someone’s ‘bioethical grid’.) Here...
scary stuff…
A Washington Post article pointing out aspects of this health care bill that are being laughed off by the administration…its not funny, folks.
health care reform
(excerpts of an article by Dr. David Stephens, a missionary doctor here in Kenya.) First of all though, let me say I am for reform. Health costs are going through the roof! We are spending over 16% of the GDP so that one-in-six dollars spent goes to cover medical expenses. Annual health care inflation is...
Fact-Checking the President on Health Insurance
Both sides in this debate are using scare tactics, preventing a productive debate. The reason I am against this bill is the same reason I was against the bailout that Bush pushed through and then Obama added more to: whenever our government tries to scare us into doing something, it is quite likely that they...
My Motivation
When I get discouraged and frustrated I start to think: Why did I give up a 6-figure income for this? Am I really making a difference? I don’t think I can do this! I could make money to send to other people working here! Man, they don’t even have a lab/x-ray/I&D tray/ or medicine, much...
gatab video
In case you didn’t catch it on our Vimeo feed, here is the new video from our time up north. All God’s Children from nate killoren on Vimeo.
