My New Year’s Day morning paper presented an article from the Associated Press stating that the "U.S. falls short on some health goals for 2010." The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services runs an organization known as Healthy People which provides health objectives for our country to promote better health. Every ten years, they reassess their goals, and report on progress made in the previous decade. Now that we have just completed the first decade of the new millennium, they will be measuring up how we did as a nation. Preliminary results suggest we may have only hit about 20 percent of the goals for this past decade. A few of the misses paint a grim picture of the direction
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“Take Charge of Your Chronic Pain” comes to you at a pivotal time in our nation’s history. Few are satisfied with the current state of health care in the United States, yet even fewer seem to have the stomach for creating true wholesale changes to what most believe is so broken. Washington is in the midst of trying to pass legislation to overhaul a system that many believe is too costly, inefficient, and compares less favorably to other developed countries. The other day, I was chatting with a fellow dad of one of the players on my son’s soccer team. He and his family recently moved here from Denmark where they have a public health system
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