Good Health is Your Greatest Wealth……Virgil
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Americans made fewer trips to their doctors’ offices during the Great Recession than they did earlier in the decade, according to new research. “These are not dramatic drops, but in our healthcare system we’re used to our numbers going up… So just seeing a reverse in the trend is interesting,” said Karoline Mortensen, the study’s lead author from the University of Maryland in College Park. …
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Many Americans seem to be in a sour mood as 2013 begins, after Hurricane Sandy ravaged parts of the East Coast, a gunman massacred 20 school children in Connecticut and a long, contentious election campaign was followed by failure to resolve the "fiscal cliff" issue by year-end. Americans have not been very optimistic since the Great Recession of 2008-2009, but the gloom had begun to lift this year until the blast of bad news as 2012 ended, IPSOS pollster Cliff Young said on Monday. IPSOS polling showed that some angst set in as the year ended. …