Right on Raymond Ave.
Reblogged from callmedaredevil
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The United States should no longer be the only country in the developed world that has a grossly unequal health care system – a system that condemns millions of people to unnecessary illness and death solely because they don’t have enough money. The provision of essential health care, including preventive care, should never be dependent on how much money a person has. This is not simply a political issue; it is fundamentally a moral issue.
No child in this nation should ever suffer from a serious illness without having access to a doctor. No American woman should ever die because she could not afford a mammogram to obtain an early diagnosis of breast cancer. No man in the U.S. should die from colon cancer because he was too poor to afford a colonoscopy. No one should ever go bankrupt because of medical bills. Those horrors are now unique to the U.S. They don’t happen to people in other developed nations. We should no longer allow them to occur in the United States.
The rest of the developed world provides health care for everyone, at a far lower cost. So too can the United States – with leadership that is not bought and paid for by the insurance and pharmaceutical industries. It is simply a matter of the people of this nation rising together and saying “We won’t stand for it any more.” With strong, principled leaders, we can bring about a just, less expensive, more efficient health care system that provides better medical outcomes for the American people.
Rocky will make the case to the public and to Congress regarding the need for a health care system that is far less expensive, more efficient, productive of better outcomes, and focused on keeping people healthy.
There are many high-quality systems of health care the United States can replicate. There is not only one solution. The United States should learn from the very best among other nations, then take decisive action. The best of the following systems can be accomplished in the U.S. with a President who will fight tenaciously for what’s right.
"Reblogged from socialuprooting
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Reblogged from psychology2010
Emotions Are Expressed More Strongly on Left Side of Face
In my biopsychology class for the topic of emotions, one of the things that I learned is that the right hemisphere of brain processes emotions more than left. And I learned that this shows when the left side of face expresses emotions more strongly than the right (Right Hemisphere controls Left Side of Body).
Digging further into the fact, I found a study that shows this. The study found random photos of faces, took the left side and right side and made individual face composites of each side. What the researchers did is cut the face picture in halves, take the right side, duplicate it and merged it together to create a full face. They did this for the left side as well. Then to determined whether the left or right side expresses emotions more strongly, the researchers had participants judge the composites of left vs right photos. As supported by the study, the left side of face, controlled by the right hemisphere, was judged to have stronger emotional expressions than the left.
"Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage means we face our fears. We are able to say, “I have fallen, but I will get up."
Reblogged from psych-facts
Maya Angelou (via lostinthesounds)
