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Most medical doctors will tell you that if they were ever asked about socialized medicine in their medical shool interviews and spoke in favor of it; they probably wouldn't have remained on the medical schools candidacy list. It seems highly ironic that in the hallowed halls of healing where it is practiced to " do no harm" and preached not to expect compensation due to your profession that to discuss free and open access to healthcare for all is still considered somewhat taboo. It is still even rarely discussed in formal platforms amongst peers in medical school academics to discuss options based on their science and personal expereinces about the topic . One would think that it surely must be daily and hotly debated in schools of public health(a master's level degree), but one would also be wrong. But, with this "self-censorship" amongst the medical profession there are still several organizations popping up that wish to openly debate the possible opti...

Perhaps many of us already know what the impact healthcare dollars may affect our general economy. But, the confluency of healthcare is often overlooked or numerous pieces ot it are not put together in the overall puzzle. As we examine healthcare the single puzzle appears as an illusion, but we begin to see the multiple pieces involving all our nation's economy. The nation is currently facing the shifting demographics in a new changing America where the "Baby Boomer" population is becoming the fastest growing sub-population and they are living a lot longer. This will have a major impact on a shrinking labor force that can assure witholdings for those in their later years.It also means that a larger septugenerian or octogenerian will live longer with more chronic illnesses which will also impact greater cost of healthcare and the general cost of living. The U.S. population has gone from 280,000,000 to 321,000,000 in the last decade with a growing migrant population that wi...

The United States Preventive Services Task Force(USPSTF/the Task Force) is a little known public healthy policy entity rarely heard of outside the health industry. But, it has taken to being perhaps the most influential guideline setter for practitioners and cancer screeners alike. But, what has made the elite group so controversial in the last 3 years are its sweeping cancer screening recommendations that have been rocking the medical practitioner and health consumer world , radically. Where most medical practitioners have observed cancer screening recommendations provided by professional specialty organizations and biomedical institutions such as the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology(ACOG), the American Medical Association(AMA), National Institutes of Health(NIH), or American Cancer Society(ACS) ; the U.S. Health and Human Services has given the nod to the "task force" to become the premiere authority to set all guidelines for all specialties. Many of the ...