Discussion of public health and health care policy, from a public health perspective. The U.S. spends more on medical services than any other country, but we get less for it. Major reasons include lack of universal access, unequal treatment, and underinvestment in public health and social welfare. We will critically examine the economics, politics and sociology of health and illness in the U.S. and the world.
Thursday, March 03, 2016
I get that you're worried about who might have his finger on the button next January . . .
but this should take your mind off of that. (Sorry, no consolation.) Eric Holthaus discusses the ongoing global temperature anomaly and it's yuuuuge. The climate goals negotiated last year in Paris aimed at limiting warming to 1.5 degrees centigrade by the end of the century. Well, it's probably temporary but the last couple of months, we're already there.
There is no snow on the ground in Anchorage, so they sent in a trainload of snow to make the Iditarod sled dog race possible. The arctic sea ice reached its lowest maximum extent since data collection began, and the south Pacific just experienced the strongest cyclone in history.
We aren't talking 2030 or 2050. We're talking right now. Today. But who needs Miami Beach anyway?
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