A new health insurance could replace Omabacare, as the Affordable Care Act has failed to provide the medical coverage that U.S. citizens need.

President’s Barrack Obama health care plan continues to fail as more and more U.S. citizens show less interest in the new Affordable Care Act.

The ACA was designed as a low-income health insurance meant to offer medical coverage to people who have less financial resources. Despite the promising advantages, the Obamacare failed to convince people to resort to health insurances.

The Affordable Care Act was adopted in 2010 in order to diminish the percentage of medically uninsured population. Back then, reports revealed that 16.5% of the population had no medical coverage for possible health affections.

Current figures show that the percentage has now dropped to 12, so only 4.5% of the population has resorted to the Obamacare.

The promoters of Obama’s health insurance program could consider the 4.5% percentage decrease a success, but Americans claim a new medical coverage should be implemented. The government is, nevertheless, satisfied with the changes that ACA has made so far.

Among other low-income advantages the Obamacare also promised federal government subsidies for citizens who can’t afford to pay health insurance. What’s more, the Affordable Care Act provided medical coverage for children until the age of 26, whose medical services are paid by their parents.

The majority of Obamacare opponents have argued that there are many advantages they never benefitted of.

First of all, users were not able to keep their doctors, although the Act clearly stated that “if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor”.

Second of all, the health insurance guaranteed a reduced ER time; in reality, the promise never materialized as doctors complained more patients have relied on emergency room services in the past years.

Analysts expect to face a powerful competition wave in health care services in the following period as many health insurance companies are forced to shut down their businesses. A lower percentage of health insurance companies means fewer choices for consumers and possibly higher prices.

Given the previously mentioned circumstances, a new health insurance plan could easily overthrow the Affordable Care Act. The new health care act should be able to respond to all the aforementioned needs of the American citizens in order to convince people to get medical coverage.

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People who have never used modern antibiotics showed to have developed  antibiotic resistance gene, as researchers found out that  an isolated tribe from South America has natural resistance to antibiotics.

A research published in the journal Science Advances has analyzed the bodily bacteria of a remote tribe from South America leading scientist to believe that the human’s body capacity to resist antibiotics has existed long before the development of antibiotic treatments.

The Yanomami are people living in isolated conditions in the mountain region of South Venezuela and they have been living there ever since their ancestors settled, almost 11,000 years ago.  They had lived separated from the rest of the world until 2009 when they were discovered by researchers.

These people have shown to have the largest diversity of bacteria that was ever found in humans. Some of the microbes, have actually never been discovered in the human body before, explained researchers.

What was surprising to discover was the fact that the tribe possessed genes that were resistant to natural antibiotics which included those germs that have developed resistance to antibiotics produced synthetically,  but these people have never taken man made antibiotics.

Scientists have tested bacteria collected from the Venezuelan tribe, to 23 different types of antibiotics and discovered that the medicine managed to kill every single one of them. Even so, further analysis has shown that the bacteria contained a hidden resistance that was set off when in contact with the antibiotics.

Exaggerated use of antibiotics used for treatments or for agriculture purposes is causing a world wide increase of germs who have developed resistance and strong medicine is losing its ability to kill them.

Our system contains trillions of microbes(microbiome) that live inside and outside of every area of our body and each of them has a role in the functioning and health of the human body, from controlling the immune system to digesting food.

It seems that the pre-modern humans had a most extended gamma of microbes and bacteria which had more diversified roles, comparing to the humans that have been affected by modern life and treatments, like modern antibiotics and processed diets, explained professor of immunology and pathology, Gautam Dantas from the Washington University, St.Louis.

Medicine professor Maria Dominguez-Bello from the Langone Medical Center from New York, stated that the explanation for the diminishing of microbial diversity in our bodies, might be the fact that certain diseases like diabetes, asthma, allergies and obesity have increased for the last 40 years.

She added that researchers have serious reasons to assume that there is something that has changed in the environment for the past decades that has expanded the occurring of this diseases, and that thing might have to do with our microbiome.

For the experiment, scientists have studied microbial samples from the mouth, intestines and skin  taken from 34 of the Yanomami people which were compared to a group of people from the United States, a number of people from Malawi, South Africa and another tribe from Venezuela called the Guihabo.

The Yanomami people showed to have a doubled number of microbe diversity compared to U.S. people and 30%-40% than the people from Malawi and Guahibo.

Certain microbes possessed only by the Yanomami served to protect the body against developing kidney stones.

For the moment, researchers are not sure is this diverse microbiome found in the Yanomami, has a beneficial or negative impact on the health.

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If you thought women spend too much time obsessing about themselves, a now study will prove you wrong. New research on narcissism based on decades of data provided by half a million subjects uncovered that men top women when it comes to narcissism

For the research, which is distributed in the diary Psychological Bulletin, scientists from the University at Buffalo School of Management, NY, examined the gender contrasts in narcissism across more than 300 “diary articles, theses, books and specialized manuals. Per total, the study reviewed 30 years of research and over 475,000 subjects.

Specifically, the specialists concentrated on three aspects of narcissism: entitlement, grandiose/exhibitionism and leadership/authority.

The biggest discrepancies between genders in the study was in entitlement, according to the authors. They claim this recommends that men are more prone than women to use others and that they feel they have the right to specific privileges. The second biggest discrepancy was in leadership/authority, which drove the scientists to note that men display more yearning for power than women.

Nevertheless, there was no huge gender gap concerning exhibitionism, which proposes that men and women are prone to be similarly as vain or self-absorbed.

Reviewing data from university students from 1990 to 2013, the group reports it discovered no confirmation of either gender getting more or less narcissistic over the long haul.

Past studies have uncovered that personality contrasts like narcissism are associated with expectations and gender stereotypes. Case in point, lead author Emily Grijalva, PhD, associate professor of org and human resources, contends that the absence of women in executive positions could be partially caused by discrepancies in perceiving femininity and authority.

Grijalva explained her theory:

“Individuals tend to observe and learn gender roles from a young age, and may face backlash for deviating from society’s expectations. In particular, women often receive harsh criticism for being aggressive or authoritative, which creates pressure for women, more so than for men, to suppress displays of narcissistic behavior.”

In 2014, another narcissism study was released, led by Brad Bushman, professor of communication and psychology at Ohio State University. Accordingly, narcissism is an issuer for both individual and society. The individuals who perceive themselves as extraordinary don’t attempt to improve themselves. Also, the study noted that narcissism is not good for society either because individuals who are only concerned with their own person and their own particular interests are less likely to help others.

Bushman and associates at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy came up with a test for narcissism that comprised basically of one inquiry: “To what extent do you agree with this statement: ‘I am a narcissist.'”

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