health care – The Ten Commandments Project

Tazria: Medicine’s Trajectory?

Bronze serpent coiled around a staff on rocky ground with sunset and mountains in background

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?”

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”

Gaming The System

A Retired Judge often complained to me about parties “gaming the system.” She- keen on this issue- authored a well-respected treatise. Her text addressed a Health Care System plagued with controversy. In the United States, there are a number of Health Care Systems. These include Medicare, Medicaid, and Workers’ Compensation. All of these systems areContinue reading “Gaming The System”