Health

Update: A seemingly angry (judging by the tone) Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer obviously had to lash out and dismiss the Republican's plan for "TrumpCare"...

"Trumpcare doesn't replace the Affordable Care Act, it forces millions of Americans to pay more for less care. This plan would cut and cap Medicaid, defund Planned Parenthood, and force Americans, particularly older Americans, to pay more out of pocket for their medical care all so insurance companies can pad their bottom line.

 

Via Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,

Strip away the centralized power that protects and funds cartels, and prices would plummet.

The mainstream narrative is "the problem is low wages." Actually, the problem is the soaring cost of living. If essentials such as healthcare, housing, higher education and government services were as cheap as they once were, a wage of $10 or $12 an hour would be more than enough to maintain a decent everyday life.

Dozens of students were temporarily suspended at a school in Minnesota on Wednesday after they questioned the safety of vaccines.  The Rochester School district removed 71 students from class after they failed to show that they had received their vaccinations, as part of a plan to enforce a controversial state law that requires all school children to be immunized. CBS reports: Students had to submit the proper paperwork to the school district in order to prove they are exempt by Wednesday.

Psychiatric researchers in the US have found that severely depressed patients who take small doses of LSD are cured within 30 seconds of taking the drug.  Psychedelic substances such as LSD and psilocybin (the ingredient in magic mushrooms that causes hallucinations) are able to treat patients suffering from depression much more effectively than traditional anti-depressants, according to new research. Businessinsider.com reports: And as the new documentary “A New Understanding: The Science of Psilocybin” shows, the results we’ve seen so far are powerful.

A former Marine and his wife say the scene inside a Veterans Administration hospital in Durham, North Carolina, was so shocking that they took pictures and posted them to Facebook.

Now, as AP reports,  thousands of people are expressing outrage and the head of the medical center says an employee involved has been removed from patient care pending an internal review.

Hanna and Stephen McMenamin posted photos of two struggling veterans.