Behar: Slipping?

For over 35 years, I have represented individuals who have suffered tremendous life setbacks. Some have lost their jobs, their housing, or their ability to support themselves. Some have been chronically homeless. An epiphany came from these thirty-plus years of both observation of and interaction with distressed individuals: it is far more productive to helpContinue reading “Behar: Slipping?”

Tazria: Medicine’s Trajectory?

Before Organized Medicine, the Torah addressed the Healing Arts with a multi-factorial approach. A Pantheon of Professionals, Prophets and Priests collaborated with the Israelite Deity to address national health care concerns. The Torah Portion Tazria focuses on the Priest’s role in medicine. With Tazria, and other Torah Portions, both politics and theology flesh out variousContinue reading “Tazria: Medicine’s Trajectory?”

It’s A Miracle, I’m Sick!

“Because that’s where the money is.” Willie Sutton Be it a bank or a liquor store, that’s where the money is! Theft is an art form. Bank Robber extraordinaire Mr. Willie Sutton understood that robbery is more rewarding when the target is swimming in cash. If Mr. Sutton grew up today, he would likely targetContinue reading “It’s A Miracle, I’m Sick!”

Universal Healthcare Is Not About Healthcare

A Progressive Leader, while confessing leftist sins, declared that “Universal Healthcare” was one of movement’s causes. Why? Power. Universal Health Care creates power. If someone other than an elected official controlled seventeen percent of the United States’ economy, what would you think? Currently, U.S. health care costs hover at around seventeen percent. Someone controlling aContinue reading “Universal Healthcare Is Not About Healthcare”