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Readers Weigh In on Abortion and Ways To Tackle the Opioid Crisis
Health News tamfitronics Letters to the Editoris a periodic feature. Wewelcome all commentsand will publish a selection. We edit for length and clarity and require full names.Debunking Abortion MythsI want to send a big THANK YOU to Matt Volz for writing a fact-checking article on the nonsense rhetoric around “abortion up until and after birth” that has run wild and unchallenged in the media (“GOP’s Tim Sheehy Revives Discredited Abortion Claims in Pivotal Senate Race,” July 9). Thanks for putting abortion later in pregnancy in context and debunking false assumptions.I am a near-third-trimester abortion patient (nonviable pregnancy, terminated at 26 weeks), and I am so sick of hearing politicians like Tim Sheehy talk about something they have never experienced or bothered to learn about. It is as though I am watching the entire nation maliciously...
Readers Respond on Dignity Wraiths and Democracy #1
Politics tamfitronics From TPM Reader EA …You are totally correct that Trump’s style of dominance politics demands that everyone around him surrender their dignity. But it’s wrong to call him a strongman, because his demand is really a sign of his utter weakness. I have never seen a more psychically fragile, pathetic U.S. President, and doubt if there was ever a weaker one.Innumerable reports came out as soon as Trump won the 2016 election on how his staff could only brief him with materials that flattered him. He needed to see the electoral college map displaying his victory again and again. Every day, he needed to be propped up with flattering headlines and photos. Sometimes...
Readers Issue Rx for Clogged ERs and Outrageous Out-of-Pocket Costs
Health News tamfitronics Letters to the Editoris a periodic feature. Wewelcome all commentsand will publish a selection. We edit for length and clarity and require full names.Lawmakers Must Protect Home Health To Alleviate Hospital BottlenecksThe stark reality that countless seniors lie stranded in emergency rooms across the country waiting for care underscores the need for models of care that better support older Americans (“Stranded in the ER, Seniors Await Hospital Care and Suffer Avoidable Harm,” May 6). As KFF Health News reports, even if patients need to be admitted, at times, there are simply no rooms available.As noted in the article, the backlog of patients waiting to be discharged to home health care has partly contributed to this problem in ERs. Medicare’s home health care program enables complex, disabled, and older patients to receive care...
Readers Keep up a correspondence Up About Girls folk’s Successfully being Complications, From Reproductive Care to Ingesting
Health News tamfitronics Letters to the Editoris a periodic characteristic. Wewelcome all commentsand can submit a necessity. We edit for length and clarity and require elephantine names.Many readers spoke back to our files-driven protection of how ethical and non secular directives issued by the U.S. Convention of Catholic Bishops dangle an impression on care alternate suggestions at Catholic and Catholic-affiliated hospitals in america. And we aid other readers to fragment their feedback.A communications specialist in Seattle acknowledged her notion bluntly in an X post."More and additional females are working into boundaries to obtaining care as Catholic wisely being methods dangle aggressively purchased secular hospitals in powerful of the country."Faith is harming healthcare. https://t.co/O4L9mIzP5K— JoAnne Dyer (@7Madronas) February 27, 2024— JoAnne Dyer, SeattleThe Merely to Separation of Church and CareAt my latest OB-GYN appointment, I was...
