… [Gerd] Gigerenzer, director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy in Berlin, is an expert in uncertainty and decision-making. His new book, Risk Savvy, takes aim at health professionals for not giving patients the information they need to make choices about healthcare. But it’s not just that doctors and […] Read more »
Americans’ Financial Well-Being Is Lowest, Social Highest
Americans are most likely to be considered thriving in their social well-being and suffering in their financial well-being across five elements of well-being measured by the newly updated Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. In general, more Americans are suffering or struggling than are thriving across all five elements. CONT. Alyssa Brown & […] Read more »
The Burden of Stress in America
A new NPR/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) poll released today that examines the role of stress in Americans’ lives finds that about half of the public (49%) reported that they had a major stressful event or experience in the past year. Nearly half (43%) reported that […] Read more »
Will Obamacare be a factor in how you vote?
Though more than half of Americans would like to see changes made to the Affordable Care Act, the national mood toward Obamacare will most likely be a contributing factor rather than a game-changer in this fall’s elections, according to the latest Bankrate Health Insurance Pulse survey. CONT. Jay MacDonald, Bankrate Read more »
Democrats in trouble in Senate battleground states
This survey, the second Resurgent Republic survey in this election cycle, polled 1000 likely 2014 voters in twelve U.S. Senate battleground states, with respondents evenly distributed among the states just as U.S. Senate seats are distributed. … The political environment in these twelve states tilts strongly toward the Republicans. Several […] Read more »
Republican Party factions and the Hobby Lobby decision
… Cases like the Hobby Lobby contraception case bring a new frame to social issues. Instead of using a culture war frame, as in the 1980s and 1990s, or the idea of returning to traditional values, these debates cast social issues in terms of religious liberty. (Obviously, there are also […] Read more »