Jane M. Orient

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  Dec 15, 2014

  Obama's Care vs. ObamaCare

  The whole country has heard the saga of the President's sore throat. Many people who have a similar problem—or a true emergency—might compare his treatment with theirs

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  Dec 8, 2014

  The 'Cross-Your-Fingers' Public Health Strategy

  Maybe the country that claims to have the "best healthcare system in the world" can get away with ignoring basic public health strategies that have worked for centuries. Perhaps we can say, "It can't happen here." After all, Ebola seems to have gone away, as epidemics do—sooner or later.

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  Dec 2, 2014

  Lawlessness in Ferguson and Washington

  Thousands of killings get no national mention, and no presidential speech. Who will hear of Zemir Begic, a legal immigrant from Bosnia who was bludgeoned to death with hammers in St. Louis on Nov 30? His attackers, black and Hispanic teenagers, were not racially motivated, said the police.

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  Nov 11, 2014

  Republicans Can No Longer Blame Harry Reid for Failing to Repeal ObamaCare

  Republicans can no longer blame Harry Reid for their failure to repeal or defund ObamaCare. They can't just take symbolic votes and complain when bills get bottled up in the Senate. It's on them now.

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  Oct 13, 2014

  The US Is Prepared for Ebola; But for Only 10 Patients at a Time

  Have you wondered why Ebola patients are being sent to Omaha, Nebraska? It's because one physician, Dr. Philip Smith, had the foresight to set up the Nebraska Biocontainment Patient Care Unit after the 9/11 attacks as a bulwark against bioterrorism.

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  Oct 6, 2014

  Will U.S. Keep Ebola In Check Here at Home?

  Some 3,000 American soldiers are arriving in Africa to fight an Ebola epidemic that is doubling about every 3 weeks, with the number of infections projected to reach 1.4 million by January.

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  Sep 10, 2014

  What If America Were a Christian Nation?

  Still more argue that America is not a Christian nation now. Barack Obama said on June 28, 2006: "Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation—at least, not just. We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, and a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers."

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  Sep 1, 2014

  Suicide Takes 22 Soldiers a Day: What Can We Do?

  American soldiers are "bringing the war home": 22 veterans and one active duty soldier are said to commit suicide every day. Some estimate that more than 30 lives are lost every day.

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  Aug 12, 2014

  Ebola: False Alarm, or the Poor Man's Atomic Bomb?

  Ebola is familiar to Americans as the stuff of science-fiction horror novels, and is an ongoing real-life horror story in Africa. Viral hemorrhagic fevers, of which Ebola is one example, have killed fewer than 3,000 people over 40 years. So why the high level of concern now?

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  Jul 21, 2014

  Will Medicare Become the Next VA?

  Most veterans get most of their medical care from private doctors through Medicare or private insurance. Just think what those secret waiting lists would be like if they didn't!