Cuts in healthcare . . . Medicaid is necessary to fund tax breaks for Trump, his inner circle of beneficiaries and all not needing a tax break. This particular piece by Kaiser Family Foundation focuses on the impact to those who use Medicaid. Low in income, people are the main users of Medicaid. An ~10 […]

Millions of Americans No Longer Have Hospital Care in Their Community Over the past decade, more than 100 rural hospitals have closed. As a result, the millions of Americans who live in those communities no longer have access to an emergency room, in patient care, and many other hospital services that citizens in most of […]

This piece deserves a descriptive header by me. I will try . . . “first-term tax cuts) outweighed his concerns” Concerns by Hawley about what? People losing healthcare or concerns Trump will banish him and pick on him? The number also keep changing. An ~ 10 million people will lose access to US funded healthcare […]

Its appears Coca-Cola will be launching a cane-sugar soda this fall in the U.S. The beverage company announced its implementation in its second quarter earnings on Tuesday. This, according to Hannah Parker at Quartz. The new product announcement comes nearly a week after President Donald Trump took to Truth Social Wednesday to declare Coca-Cola agreed to switch […]

My opinion? Excluding portions of the population living in the United States from healthcare does not make good logistics or sense for that matter. Even if they are illegal, students, or just touring. Sickly people endanger the rest of the nation. The nation will end up spending more by reducing healthcare to them. It has […]

Public trust in FDA decisions will plummet if Commissioner Marty Makary abandons the agency’s “gold standard” principles. Gooz News – Merrill Goozner FDA Commissioner Marty Makary had every right to revisit the benefits and risks of taking hormones to treat severe menopause symptoms. The agency currently warns they may increase the risk of heart attacks, […]

Excellent commentary by Joyce Vance. As a subscriber, I am happy I can present this piece on Angry Bear. We do not have many women commenting at Angry Bear. Please if there was never a opportunity for you to comment, maybe you can now. “The War on Women,” Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance When we […]

Trump was recently in the news promoting a switch from high fructose corn syrup to cane sugar in Coca-Cola, which he’s claiming credit for. Look, I’m not the world’s best biochemist, but this looked like marketing hype to me. Why is high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) problematic but cane sugar—which is a disaccharide of glucose […]

Some potential and real health issues which go unchallenged for now or are largely ignored. I read these articles and thought they may be interesting enough to be read at Angry Bear also. These are partials of longer commentaries. No so long as to give up on them halfway through them. Air and water pollution […]

Look, if they were serious about making America healthy, here is a short list of things Congress and the Administration can do: • restore and expand Medicaid benefits; • restore and expand SNAP; • eliminate the Medicare Advantage plans; • support and expand childhood vaccinations; • replace our current nightmare of private insurance with single-payer, […]