Sport and betting have been part and parcel of my working life for three decades. High street bookies have been part of our communities for even longer.
Category: Opinion
UPDF should stop torturing suspects
According to the story, Cpl Majibu Ssebyara’s hands were tied to a steel bar above his head and a dangling heavy sand bag tied to his genital with his legs suspended in the air Our view: Cpl Ssebyara’s alleged maltreatment invokes the saddening memories of damages done to suspects in ‘safe houses’. Let’s divorce the evil of the past.
Government Has Share in Blame
… consumed for legitimate medical reasons, and the drug wholesalers knew it. Companies such as McKesson Corp., Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen Drug Co. understood full well they were flooding the Mountain State with poison, but they hid behind …
Take care: Mining the mind-body connection
Do you ever suffer from worried, fearful, or racing thoughts? A licensed clinical social worker at Keystone Behavioral Health describes one form of therapy used to keep thoughts under control. Take care: Mining the mind-body connection Do you ever suffer from worried, fearful, or racing thoughts? A licensed clinical social worker at Keystone Behavioral Health describes one form of therapy used to keep thoughts under control.
Take care: Mining the mind-body connection
Do you ever suffer from worried, fearful, or racing thoughts? A licensed clinical social worker at Keystone Behavioral Health describes one form of therapy used to keep thoughts under control. Take care: Mining the mind-body connection Do you ever suffer from worried, fearful, or racing thoughts? A licensed clinical social worker at Keystone Behavioral Health describes one form of therapy used to keep thoughts under control.
Millennial View: Catherine Rampell – Why the white working class votes against itself
… I’ve interviewed, that the party’s actual ideas are the right ones. Democrats, they note, pushed for expansion of health-insurance subsidies for low- and middle-income Americans; investments in education and retraining; middle-class tax cuts; and a …
Sorry, Santa – science skeptics must be stopped, for our own sake | Opinion
… The ideas that certain ethnic groups are inferior to others, that humans have no impact upon the environment, that health regulations such as vaccination laws actually harm us are all examples of pseudoscience. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a …
The rights of residents and help from an ombudsman
… a transfer or discharge: (a) is necessary to meet the resident’s welfare; (b) is appropriate because the resident’s health has improved and s/he no longer requires nursing home care; (c) is needed to protect the health and safety of other residents …
Dr Aj: Early medicare compromise still colours doctors’ pay
Before medicare, patients were charged directly for health services provided by family doctors. There were no set fees for visits to the doctor and different doctors charged different amounts for similar services.
Mental health malfeasance
The 21st Century Cures Act signed by President Barack Obama contains smart, well-designed mental-health provisions. But unless President-elect Donald Trump and Tom Price, his nominee for secretary of health and human services, “drain the swamp” at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Center for Mental Health Services, many of the new law’s useful provisions could be negated or undone by the permanent bureaucracy.
Populism, real and phony
… Trump’s Cabinet choices show which way the wind is blowing. Both his pick as budget director and his choice to head Health and Human Services want to dismantle the Affordable Care Act and privatize Medicare. His choice as labor secretary is a …
Populism, real and phony
… Trump’s Cabinet choices show which way the wind is blowing. Both his pick as budget director and his choice to head Health and Human Services want to dismantle the Affordable Care Act and privatize Medicare. His choice as labor secretary is a …
Ia m 26 and was diagnosed with skin cancer. Herea s why it didna t have to happen
For two weeks now, I’ve worn a two-inch bandage across my forehead to cover the gash where skin cancer had put down its ugly roots. I’m 26, so the bandage and the cancer beneath it prompted a lot of awkward conversations with strangers who asked me what happened.
Commentary: Wrapping up a tumultuous year
… Readmission Program Act, which was included in the 21st Century Cures Act. It would require the Department of Health and Human Services to adjust its readmission penalty for hospitals whose readmission rates it deems are too high. This program was …
Maybe Trump backers should have taken him literally
They will be forgiving if, say, he doesn’t literally get Mexico to pay for a border wall, or if he doesn’t literally ban all Muslims from entering the United States. But in other areas, Trump’s supporters perhaps should have taken him literally – because they now may have a serious problem.
Letter: New York can cap medication prices
… urging the Republican congressional majority to stand up to the drug companies was right on the mark (“A single health solution,” Nov. 28). I share your extreme skepticism that they’ll act, due to big drug company campaign contributions and heavy …
It’s the season of giving
… foundation has worked hard this year to ensure that donor’s dollars have met the needs of the patients, staff and the health authority – and that’s all thanks to donor support. We’ve also been working hard to support our latest campaign, Operation …
The new OMB’s director’s first order of business? Standing up to Trump.
AS THE federal government has grown, so has the power and responsibility of the White House-based agency charged with keeping tabs on spending, revenue and regulation. The director of that agency, the Office of Management and Budget, is much more than the president’s bean-counter; he or she is a key player on policy, as well as, traditionally, the voice of fiscal responsibility both within the executive branch and in the public arena.