healthcare

I am extremely interested in the care that everyone receives in a hospital emergency room. I went to our local emergency room two weeks ago because I thought I was having a stroke. I had severe pain in my neck, back of head. arms and hands. When I got to the emergency room a paramedic was called out to "triage" me.  Read More »

Whether you live in the city or suburbs, hospitals can be overcrowded, under-staffed, insensitive to ailing patients, subjective as to how certified, and board recognized staff deal with patients. Each person that steps inside of the hospital doors should be treated equally and with the same importance.  Read More »

Here's Part II of my many-part series on Party Platforms '08. This blog concerns the policies of the Democratic Party on Healthcare.

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Will the fate of the American health care industry become the same as those of England, Canada, or many other countries world wide? Would socializing the health care industry really be the magical solution to the problems that it now faces? The answer is clear and simple. No. So why is this the answer? Let's find out...  Read More »

The Baby-Boom Generation, so revered for its political power, so full of the self-satisfaction that has made America what is today, has also doomed its progeny to decades of fiscal hardship, at the same time that they will be demanding that we live up to the promises they made themselves with Social Security. Do not misunderstand my point, Social Security must remain intact.  Read More »

I will now begin filling in the gaps from my summer travels. I was only able to post four times during my three months in southern Africa.

My travels began in the South African capital city of Johannesburg and took me to a community development project (which became an official non-profit organization (NPO) this summer) in an informal settlement known as Zonkizizwe. Shortened to Zonke, the settlement was started during the apartheid years as a place for people commuting to live closer to their mostly inadequate jobs as farm hands, domestic workers, miners, and other menial jobs. The settlement is surrounded by farmland from which it owes its birth. The former Afrikaner farmland now houses close between 150,000 - 200,000 people (estimates are not clear). There are now other Zonkizizwe areas known as extensions. Where I was is called Zonkizizwe Proper as opposed to the five other extensions just nearby.  Read More »

Our journal focuses on relationships between development, foreign aid, health care and Africa. Articulate is a forum for students to contribute to, as well as make, the debates in international development. Undergraduate students remain a vital, untapped force that can bring new ideas, perspectives, and concepts into the development dialogue.  Read More »

For those of you who joined early in 2008, you may wonder why I have not been active much. Well, for a minute I was smothered in finals papers, and working the next dead end job. My summer plans were nothing, and then, while riding the subway one day I noticed an advertisement for student interns. I immediately wrote down the number and vowed to call them later.  Read More »