When I was a teenager living in central Arizona, many of my classmates worked in the miles of fields during the summers, on weekends and even evenings. They harvested watermelons, cantaloupes and other summer crops. A few worked in the cotton fields, picking cotton for farmers that couldn’t afford the expensive machinery. It was hard
One of the things about the Affordable Care Act that never made sense to me was why it raised the age of children covered under their parent’s policy, from 21 to 26. The entire success of Obamacare working was built upon the premise that millions of young healthy adults would enroll in healthcare plans. Since
In our younger days, we tended to make fun of older people who suffered from various forms of dementia. As we got older and matured, that mockery turned to sympathy as we realized what it does to their loved ones. As we approach our senior years, the sympathy turns to fear as we fear, hope
Suicide is a topic that few people are willing to talk about, especially parents with their kids. Most parents will tell you that there is no way any of their kids would ever think of suicide and many of them are so very wrong. I planned my own suicide when I was 19. I’ve always
Flu season is upon us and I saw on the national news there have already been 7,040 cases of influenza reported this November compared to only 3,454 cases in November 2016. with large outbreaks that have already been reported in four states – Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts and Oklahoma. The strain being detected so far is
I once saw a survey that said that the majority of people would rather see a proctologist than they would see a dentist. To be honest, I have to agree. But technology has improved by leaps and bounds since the days of painful numbing shots into the gums. Many dentists today have a topical compound
There is an age-old myth about how the older a person gets the less their desire for sex becomes. Okay, it might be partially true due to certain conditions, but on the face of the issue, it’s not true at all. Many women do experience a decrease in sexual desires after menopause and after having
Barack Obama’s flagship legislation was the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, more commonly referred to as Obamacare. The law had nothing to do with patient protection or providing affordable healthcare. Under Obamacare, many doctors, clinics and hospitals were supposed to enter patients’ medical histories into a national database, regardless if the patient knows about
For the past couple of years, numerous television commercials have strongly pushed everyone 65-years of age and older to get a pneumococcal vaccine. One commercial depicts an older woman who says she suddenly got sick and her doctor told her if she hadn’t gotten help when she did that she would probably have died in
In September, we reported how some major metropolitan areas faced an epidemic of AIDs, largely due to the hippie free-love movement, the rise of homosexuality and drug use, especially in some of the larger California communities. San Francisco seemed to be the central focus of the AIDs virus and it radiated out from there. Today,
