Archive for the 'health' Category
Pennsylvania’s Shame: One More Step Toward Gilead
Kermit Gosnell, and the opportunists that followed. For Shame, Pennsylvania. You’ll come to regret this day.
Read More..>>“I Got it From Agnes”: the Theme Song for Earned Sick Time
Here in Philadelphia, there’s an ongoing campaign to ensure that all workers get earned sick time: that is, paid days off sick.
To someone like me, who’s had paid sick days for years, it’s a no-brainer. If you’re sick, or your kid is sick, you get a paid day off. But in Philly, 41% of [...]
Obamacare FAIL
Over at Daily Kos, Kaili Joy Gray makes some hay with Romney’s health care hypocrisy, noting that if he’s such a pro-life conservative, why does Romneycare cover abortion?
It’s a nice try, and it certainly undermines Mitt Romney’s pro-life credentials.
But to me, a person who cares deeply about reproductive rights, it just reminds me (again) that [...]
Why is Earned Sick Time Even Controversial??
My friend Lauren’s working on a campaign to guarantee earned sick time for more than 200,000 working Philadelphians who have to either go to work sick or lose wages. I don’t understand why this is even controversial: it just makes common sense:
Research shows that employers who offer paid sick days have higher productivity and [...]
Extorting Sick People
This piece, via Susie really hit home for me.
Over the weekend, we Tarts learned the shocking news that one of our most loyal backbloggers and friends, Melissa Mia Hall, aka MMH, had died suddenly and somewhat mysteriously.
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And then we learned the truth which turned out to be far worse, far more humbling, than our conjecture. [...]
Bar AIDS: Drink Away the Virus!
Cross-posted at Suburban Guerrilla
I remember this commercial, which appeared about a week before the AIDS crisis exploded.
Action AIDS is one of the many non-profit human services organizations in Philadelphia, and their name is pretty self-explanatory. Like most non-profits, Action AIDS is under the gun due to the economic calamity we’re living in. (And [...]
That’s a LOT of Venereal Disease
Living in the city, you learn so much about stuff you’d rather not know about, but need to.
For example, my zip code has some of the highest rates of syphilis, and THE highest rate of chlamydia in the whole city (warning, pdf). 55 cases of syphilis. 1,434 cases of chlamydia. between the two, southwest Philadelphia [...]
