Doctors say they’re increasingly fielding questions about the safety of marijuana, as use of the drug rises and more communities consider legalizing it. Colorado and Washington state have legalized recreational marijuana, and medical use is allowed in 21 states and Washington, D.C. USA TODAY’s Liz Szabo talked to experts about what scientists know and don’t
Many have contended that the Affordable Care Act had absolutely nothing to do with improving healthcare in the United States. The primary purpose was to force a nationalized socialist program on the American people. Once they had one socialist program then it would make it easier to impose more of them on all of us.
Have you ever shopped for a new car? You quickly learn that some models are basic, without all of the extras that are nice, but also jack the price up higher and higher. If you can afford a model with all of the extras, then great, but for many working-class Americans, they can only afford
As parents, we have a responsibility for what goes into our kids’ minds. What kids read, especially when the material is endorsed by their school, impacts their young minds which helps to mold them into what they will grow up to be. At the age when kids start school and learn to read, their minds
What are the most important problems facing America as we enter 2018? How would you answer that? Is it the possibility of nuclear war with North Korea? Bitter partisan politics in Washington DC? The Mueller investigation? Is it energy, economy or other problems? Gallup asked a number of people what the most important problem facing
In 1990, 37 million Americans – about 10 percent of the U.S. population – had no health insurance. Many of these people were low-wage workers whose jobs didn’t offer coverage. There was a groundswell of support for far-reaching changes to the health care system, sparked partly by the rising cost of coverage and care. “It appeared that
How much do most of us really know about gender confusion, also known as gender dysphoria, transgenderism? Where did you hear it from? Chances are, most of what you know has come from the liberal alt-left (media, entertainment, activist groups and the Internet), but is what they’ve been feeding us the truth? Laurie Higgins, Cultural
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
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
