by wmfa | Mar 2, 2019 | Health
On Internet Addiction Silicon Valley has become a malevolent force in our lives because it gives us what we want, so much so that it often crowds out what we need. This is by intention, and now so obvious that the tech giants can no longer hold their Venetian masks in...
by wmfa | Feb 1, 2019 | Health
On Latch-key Society In last month’s blog I discussed how both parents must work to make ends meet. I was born in 1951 to an 18 year-old mother and a 22 year-old father. My mother was a homemaker and did not work. My father was a bricklayer, yet when I was 7 years old...
by wmfa | Jan 1, 2019 | Health
More on Non-Physician Physicians In November of 2018 CVS purchased Aetna in another giant health care merger. CEO Larry Merlo announced that this would allow CVS pharmacies to provide expanded health care services including “guiding discharged hospital patients...
by wmfa | Dec 9, 2018 | Health
On Non-Physician Physicians In her book The Smartest Kids in the World, Amanda Ripley explains how the Finns developed the best educational system in the world according to international testing standards (PISA testing). About 25 years ago Finland gave up on a...
by wmfa | Nov 7, 2017 | Health
On Insulin Pricing When President George W. Bush moved to include drug coverage benefits for Medicare patients he had to secure the support of Big Pharma. The drug companies demanded and obtained two important concessions: (1) Americans may not purchase their...
