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Opinions
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Thoughts on our healthcare
Letter to the Editor
Dealing with breast cancer
Dear Editor:
Our healthcare system is
broke; however, Obamacare is
not the answer. I have person-
ally seen socialized healthcare
and it is terrible. Just Google
“successful socialized medi-
cine” and you will see that no
country has ever made it suc-
cessful.
The problem with our health-
care is that the cost is much too
high and people cannot afford
it. No country in the world
pays their healthcare people
anywhere near as much as we
do. This is primarily due to three
things: the American Medical
Association (AMA), which is
primarily a union, determin-
ing the prices and controlling
the supply by limiting medical
school attendance; the insurance
companies that are not properly
regulated; and the lack of tort
reform resulting in ridiculously
high lawsuit settlements.
Healthcare people claim that
their high income is justified
because of their educational
requirements and their respon-
sibility for life and death deci-
sions. This is not justification,
as other disciplines, earning
much lower incomes, require
more difficult education and
have more life and death deci-
Leading
by example
In this day and age that we
live, it is so refreshing to know
people of integrity.
This weekend I heard things
I didn't want to hear, coming
from the mouths of opposing
coaches. It is so nice to know
that Coach Andy Howard and
his coaching staff treat ourteam
with respect and integrity.
The Bulldog coaches are
God-fearing, family-oriented
men several of whom my
family is fortunate enough to
attend church with. Everyone
occasionally has "one of those
days" but NEVER have I seen
or heard it on the field like last
week.
Thank you Bulldog
coaching staff for setting an
example of integrity and re-
spect for our boys.
CYNTHIA REEVES
Brady, Tx.
sions. For example, a doctorate
in engineering is more difficult
to obtain. A civil engineer
designs bridges and buildings,
involving life and death, as do
other engineering disciplines.
The low-paid military is in-
volved in life or death decisions
very often.
Insurance companies pay
out excessive settlements in
order to justify raising their pre-
miums, which have snowballed
into ridiculous amounts, with
resulting large profits. Frivo-
lous lawsuits, with unregulated
settlements, require healthcare
professionals and organizations
to pay excessive premiums for
malpractice insurance, which
further inflate the premiums to
the consumer.
The real problem is not with
these businesses, but with the
corrupt politics resulting from
the political lobbies of these
three lucrative businesses lit-
erally controlling our congres-
sional representatives.
It’s not that any one of these
businesses is really at fault.
We need to be able to purchase
insurance at reasonable rates;
we need a medical associa-
tion to establish standards for
our healthcare; and we need
the ability to sue incompetent
malpractice. The fault is in
the corrupt politics that allow
and support their abuses of the
public.
One thing that would help
the situation in our country
would be term limits for our
politicians. Then perhaps they
would become more concerned
with their legacy instead of
their reelection and do the right
things for the country instead
of just trying to enhance their
reputation to gain power.
Term limits, in conjunction
with enforcing immigration
laws, eliminating frivolous
lawsuits, enforcing regulation
of insurance companies and
enforcing the anti-trust laws
to eliminate price-fixing and
education restrictions by the
AMA might allow us to main-
tain superior medical care in
the United States at a reason-
able cost.
Obamacare does nothing
to correct these problems and,
in fact, aggravates them by;
among other things, reduc-
ing Medicare payments and
restricting medical care to the
elderly by use of a board of
non-medical personnel making
their healthcare decisions; and
by adding huge tax increases
to pay the high medical cost
for care of illegal immigrants.
This is just part of Obama’s
planned government takeover
of major U.S. industries, such
as banking and auto production.
Governments are notorious for
inefficient management due to a
non-competitive environment.
The increased cost of socialized
medical care has been offset
to some degree in some other
countries by reduced quality
of medical care, although it
has resulted in bankruptcy for
other countries.
Obama cannot negotiate on
Obamacare. It is of the upmost
importance to Obama and the
liberal democrat socialists in
their attempt to convert our
government to communism.
Vladimir Lenin said, “so-
cialized medicine is the key-
stone of socialism. The goal
of socialism is communism.”
Socialized medicine takes
control of their healthcare and
control of their very lives away
from the people and gives it to
the government.
This country was founded
and has prospered on the ba-
sis of freedom of the people
to make their own decisions.
Socialism has been steadily
eroding that freedom and our
country is fast becoming a
third-rate nation.
HAROLD BYLER
Brady, TX
By Kathleen Doheny
HealthDay Reporter
Older women who walk every
day may reduce their risk of de-
veloping breast cancer. And those
who exercise vigorously may get
even more protection, according
to new research.
The study of more than 73,000
postmenopausal women found
that walking at a moderate pace
for an hour a day was associated
with a 14 percent reduced breast
cancer risk, compared to leading
a sedentary lifestyle. An hour or
more of daily strenuous physical
activity was associated with a 25
percent reduced risk, the study
found. This is welcome news for
women who aren't very athletic.
"The nice message here is,
you don't have to go out and run
a marathon to lower your breast
cancer risk," said study researcher
Alpa Patel, senior epidemiologist
at the American Cancer Society,
which funded the study.
Breast cancer is the leading
cancer among women. In the
United States, about one in eight
women will develop the disease
in her lifetime. The women who
reported moderate exercise walked
about three miles an hour, or about
a 20-minute mile. The more vigor-
ous exercisers participated in such
activities as fast walking—about
4.5 mile s in an hour, the equivalent
of alight jog, Patel said—moderate
cycling or lap swimming.
For the study, published online
Oct. 4 in Cancer Epidemiology,
Biomarkers & Prevention, Patel and
her team identified more than 73,000
women past menopause who were
enrolled in an American Cancer
Society study on cancer incidence.
When they enrolled in 1992,
the average age was nearly 63. The
women completed a questionnaire
about medical, environmental and
demographic factors at the start and
repeated the reports every two years
between 1997 and 2009. The study
participants also reported on their
physical activity and time spent
sitting, including watching televi-
sion and reading, and reported any
diagnosis of breast cancer.During
the follow-up, which was roughly
14 years, 4,760 women developed
breast cancer.
The researchers compared the
exercise habits of women who de-
veloped breast cancer and those who
did not. About nine percent never
participated in physical activity,
while about half reported walking
as their sole activity.
Those who walked seven hours
or more a week, even without engag-
ing in other recreational physical
activity, reaped protective benefits
compared to those who walked three
hours or less a week.
While other studies have found
that exercise lowered risk of breast
cancer more for women with a
lower body mass index (BMI)—a
calculation of body fat based on
height and weight—this study found
the effect held regardless of BMI,
weight gain in adulthood or use of
postmenopausal hormone therapy.
The findings add to the accu-
mulating evidence about exercise
lowering breast cancer risk, and
present a goal that is reachable
for most women, said Kruper,
co-director of the breast cancer
program at the City of Hope Cancer
Center in Duarte, Calif.
"This is something nearly ev-
ery woman can do," Kruper said
of exercising moderately for an
hour daily. "This is not running a
marathon," she said.
Why does exercise appear
to lower breast cancer risk? The
mechanism is mostly hormonal,
Patel said. Breast cancer risk is
affected by lifetime exposure to
estrogen, with more exposure
increasing risk. Older, physically
active women have lower levels
of estrogen than their sedentary
peers. Besides exercising, women
who want to reduce breast cancer
risk should maintain a healthy body
weight, Patel said, and ifthey drink,
they should limit alcoholic bever-
ages to no more than one daily.
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