The consequences of the challenge to the Affordable Care Act will extend beyond the US. Whilst woefully inadequate, the Act at least tried to address some of the inequities in health care in the US. On the side lines, countries such as the UK which have national health schemes, have remained silent and self-righteous, resting […]
Month: March 2017

Originally posted on Michael Kidd:
“Nobody knew that healthcare could be so complicated.” So said President Donald Trump on February 27, 2017, in an address to the National Governors Association meeting at the White House in Washington DC. The next day, President Trump tweeted, “I am calling on Congress to REPEAL & REPLACE OBAMACARE with…
Most of the biologic waste generated in our homes has the potential to be toxic. The cooked food scraps, fruit and vegetable peels may be organic but that doesn’t mean they are free from harbouring dangerous bacteria. Clostridium perfringes, enterococci and fecal coliforms, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus are all strains of bacteria which have […]