Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Is it Obamacare?

The irony of the Public Protection and Affordable Care Act (known today as Obamacare) is that one of its key provisions , the individual insurance mandate , conservative roots. In Congress, the requirement that individuals buy health insurance were the first prominent Republican health care reform bills introduced in
1993 as alternatives to the plan Clinton . The mandate was also a prominent feature of the plan passed under Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney in 2006. According to Romney , we get the idea of the individual mandate by [

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Mammals select the gender of their offspring to maximize their number of grandchildren


Mammals appear to have the ability to select the gender of their offspring to maximize their number of grandchildren, according to a new study that followed three generations of more than 2,300 animals from the San Diego Zoo.
It is not a conscious choice, but in some way, a female’s biology has the capability to assess her health, the quality of her mate, and her environment to determine which sex to go with, according to study author and Stanford evolutionary biologist Joseph P. Garner.