The past few weeks have brought signs that have helped investors grow more comfortable with the health of the U.S. economy.
What I realized was this: Everyone proposing solutions or criticizing unfairness was doing so from the comfortable vantage point of having good health insurance.
The survey shows that a sizeable percentage of Americans are not comfortable with increased taxes to pay for expanded government health care.
Also, some patients are simply more comfortable having saline implants, partly because of the earlier health concerns with silicone.
Assuming there is a comfortable nest egg, for a single person in good health, it makes sense these days to defer taking Social Security until age 70, says Mr. Jones.
The booming economy instead will provide the resources to enable rapidly advancing modern science to solve tragic health problems that seem intractable today, meaning longer and healthier, more comfortable lives.
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The emotional weight attached to self-exams is so great for some women that Wallace advocates putting associated public health money toward mammograms, rather than trying to get women to be more comfortable with examining their own breasts.
"It's understandable that people still feel more comfortable talking to an employee about cancer than they do about mental health - the stigma has yet to be properly addressed, " says Rowan Myron, Associate Head of Research at the Mental Health Foundation.
They have to become as comfortable talking about Medicare in the coming year as they did in talking about health-care reform last year.
Teens with special needs or chronic health problems and their parents are especially reluctant to leave a pediatrician they've been comfortable with for years.
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Supporters say it can make the end of a patient's life as comfortable as possible and the method is also widely backed by doctors and many health charities.
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