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A "Progressive" COVID Crisis Marilyn M. Singleton
Category: Words & Images Published: November 2020
"California Gov. Gavin Newsom established . . . The Equity Metric, whereby restrictions stay in place until the test positivity rates in its most-disadvantaged neighborhoods are no worse than the overall county rate."
 
A Very Expensive Free Lunch Marilyn M. Singleton
Category: Medicine & Health Published: September 2017
The estimated cost of California's proposed single-payer program would have been $400,000,000,000, while the state's total budget is $179,500,000,000.
 
Canary in a Constitutional Coal Mine Marilyn M. Singleton
Category: American Thought Published: November 2020
"Some in Congress and assorted social justice warriors are treating the Constitution like the COVID-susceptible residents of New york nursing homes: expendable. . . ."
 
Coronavirus Cash Cow Marilyn M. Singleton
Category: On Second Thought Published: July 2021
"Media outlets increased ratings at the expense of the truth; drug companies are rolling in dough; researchers let politics guide their outcomes; and social media censored physicians who disagreed with the wizards at WHO, NIH, [and the] CDC. . . ."
 
COVID Chaos: A Prison without Bars Marilyn M. Singleton
Category: Life in America Published: September 2020
"These (purposefully) chaotic times are an opportunity for a movement toward government control and the suppression of individuality. Lockdowns keep us apart and stifle the free exchange of ideas and social communion."
 
COVID-19 Won the Presidential Election Marilyn M. Singleton
Category: American Thought Published: January 2021
"The COVID pandemic was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's stated reason for inserting blanket mail-in voting into a COVID financial relief package several months before the election."
 
D.C. Swamp Spreads its Wings Marilyn M. Singleton
Category: Words & Images Published: January 2020
Most people want to control their own lives, even if that does not fit the government blueprint. The insanity from the Left is patently sick and sickening. It is about power at any cost and not what can help move the country forward.
 
Deepening the "Black" Hole Marilyn M. Singleton
Category: On Second Thought Published: March 2022
 
Health-Care Nonsense Goes On and On Marilyn M. Singleton
Category: Medicine & Health Published: September 2018
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take everything you have."
 
Infanticide, Eugenics, Euthanasia, and the Lord's Work Marilyn M. Singleton
Category: National Affairs Published: March 2019
There is "outrageous" and there is "sickening" -- what is happening on the abortion front is both.
 
Media Graveyard Buries Relevant COVID-19 Info Marilyn M. Singleton
Your Health Category: Medicine & Health Published: October 2021
 
Mission Impossible Marilyn M. Singleton
Category: Health Beat Published: September 2018
The biggest obstacle to great medical care is the socialist brigade rallying around Medicare-for-All, a proposed federally-financed program w/ no premiums, deductibles or copays, w/ medical, dental, vision & hearing benefits. What could possibly go wrong?
 
Modern Medicine Mess Elizabeth Lee Vliet , Marilyn Singleton
Category: Medicine & Health Published: March 2017
Before the arrival of the Trump Administration, 'the political elites…'disconnected' the natural regulatory mechanism of price signals and consumers making voluntary decisions about the use of their own money…"
 
Money Is the Medium of the Message Marilyn M. Singleton
Category: Medicine & Health Published: January 2018
"What good is health insurance if the treatments your physician recommends are not covered?"
 
More Fears for the New Year Marilyn M. Singleton
Category: Medicine & Health Published: January 2022
Do not panic over COVID; as for other things . . . well. . . .
 
On the Graves of Soylent Green Marilyn M. Singleton
Category: Words & Images Published: November 2019
In an effort to cut carbon emissions from burials and cremations, Washington, led the staunch environmentalist Gov. Jay Inslee, has become the first U.S. state to legalize human composting.
 
Outlasting the Oligarchy Marilyn M. Singleton
Category: Storm Front Published: May 2022
"Our government increasingly is populated with close-minded lifelong bureaucrats like Dr. Anthony Fauci and the influential career politicians who are hardly the working man's heroes. (The likes of Nancy Pelosi come to mind.)"
 
Playing the Pregnancy Race Card Marilyn M. Singleton
Category: Medicine & Health Published: July 2019
"…As far as supposedly vulnerable populations go, it appears black women have no trouble finding abortion providers: 40% [of abortions are performed] on black women despite the fact that black women of childbearing age make up only 14% of the population."
 
Reimagining Mice and Men Marilyn M. Singleton
Category: American Thought Published: July 2021
Who would have imagined a pediatrician governor supporting infanticide? Or physicians who offered early treatment of COVID-19 would be treated like drug dealers? Or Ninteen Eighty-Four would cease being fiction?
 
Ring Out the Broken Promises and Bring In Solutions Marilyn M. Singleton
Category: Medicine & Health Published: March 2018
One successful model is direct primary care. Patients pay a monthly fee directly to the physician's office for 24/7 access and basic labs and medications, and receive steep discounts on radiology and pathology services. . . .
 
Speaking Up in Black and White Marilyn M. Singleton
Category: Medicine & Health Published: September 2021
"Perhaps upspeakers' brains are fried after being fed a steady diet of DEI, ESG, and BIPOC."
 
Stop the Tyranny of Medical Mandates Marilyn M. Singleton
Your Health Category: COVID Vaccines Published: October 2021
 
Stupidity, Lies, & Videotape Marilyn M. Singleton
News View Category: Taxation Published: December 2014
 
The Fix Is In--on Elections and COVID Marilyn M. Singleton
Category: Political Landscape Published: March 2021
". . . The voting process was as purposefully obtuse as the inner workings of our 'health care system.' "
 
The New Wasteland Marilyn M. Singleton
Category: On Second Thought Published: May 2021
It is as if the medical bureaucrats are making up the rules as they go alon [while] shameless nonclinician bureaucrats have stolen our lives, stolen the smiles from children's faces, and bullied a segment of the population into paralyzing fear.
 
The Suspect Science of Gov't Marilyn M. Singleton
Category: Health Beat Published: September 2021
Federal and state govts are bribing, cajoling, and pressuring us to take an injection of a product that could be killing us in numbers not seen before. Serious reactions include miscarriages, Bell's palsy, Guillain-Barre, blood clotting disorders, etc.
 
The Thought Police Will Run Medicare for All Marilyn M. Singleton
Category: Medicine & Health Published: May 2019
"the focus on palliative care and lowering costs by reducing 'aggressive' end-of-liffe treatment is one more incremental under-the-radar step along the road to government control over life and death."
 
There Is More to Life Than Death Marilyn M. Singleton
Category: Medicine & Health Published: July 2018
". . . Rationing systems devalue the benefits the disabled, elderly, or others with a lower life expectancy could receive from a given treatment."
 
This Is Lunacy Marilyn M. Singleton
Category: Life In America Published: May 2020
We cannot hand our lives over to the government, particularly when the virus has become an opportunity for Congress to pass pork-filled legislation, showboating governors to out-quarantine each other, and tech companies to share cell phone tracking.
 
This Is NOT Normal Marilyn M. Singleton
Category: Life in America Published: July 2020
"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them."
 
Thread by Thread Marilyn M. Singleton
Category: Words & Images Published: May 2020
"This pandemic has to become the opportunity to change the U.S. from a free, energetic, resourceful individualistic society to an authoritarian, collectivist society of broken souls addicted to government largesse."
 
Today's Rx Pricing: As Clear as Peanut Butter Marilyn M. Singleton
Category: Medicine & Health Published: January 2020
"Camparison shopping is one pillar of bringing sanity to the high cost of medical care, but the opacity of the pricing system for medical costs limits the value of posting list prices to encourage lower costs through shaming, compteition, and choice."
 
What's Worse, Going Viral or Verbal Quarantine? Marilyn M. Singleton
Category: Life In America Published: March 2020
". . . Political opinions should go viral, not be quarantined. Many folks with opinions differing from those of the tribal chieftains find themselves whispering in dark corners like drug dealers."
 
Wheel of (It Costs a) Fortune Marilyn M. Singleton
Category: Dollars & Sense Published: November 2019
"Here is a new spin on 'free.' Yes, your medical care should be free--free from the restraints of government control; free from government rules that have raised the price of insurance premiums."