health care

This strikes close to home.... I'm at high risk as I have congestive heart failure and high blood pressure....but I'm not freaking out as I look forward to going home to Jesus. But I am in essense in my own lock down as my kids do all my grocery shopping and pick up my meds. Plus I live at...

So I made this meme to share on social media, and to hopefully get others to share around as well. My husband takes this medication for his migraines each month. We typically have a copay, but since we reached our out-of-pocket max this year, our cost has been zero since October. But as I was...

I am posting this for general discussion; both because it is an example of what happens when abortion is illegal but is legal next door; and in terms of the article early this week about the lowering of pregnancies among teenage girls in the UK - I mentioned in my post on that, that it article...

For links see article source..... Posted for fair use..... https://www.usnews.com/news/health-care-news/articles/2017-05-04/us-falling-short-on-pandemic-prevention-study-says If a Pandemic Hits, the U.S. Isn’t Ready The federal government hasn’t adequately implemented what was learned from the...

This could probably have been avoided if the staff had monitored her SpO2 (oxygen saturation). I presume they did, but since she was given Oxygen, it could have easily masked the problem until she was kicked out. I expect this kind of the thing to increase now that health care is administered...

[ Fair Use: For Educational / Research / Discussion Purposes Only ] Oct 29, 12:25 PM EDT, by Jeff Donn and Garance Burke, Associated Press http://news.yahoo.com/ap-impact-ebola-readiness-lacking-many-ways-160115821.html US HEALTH CARE UNPREPARED FOR EBOLA The U.S. health care apparatus is so...

By the incomparable John Green, who says the following about his sources: "For a much more thorough examination of health care expenses in America, I recommend this series at The Incidental Economist and The Commonwealth Fund's Study of Health Care Prices in the U.S. Some of the stats in this...

From Bridget Johnson at the PJ Tatler http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/07/09/house-gop-to-obama-partial-delay-of-obamacare-creates-many-new-questions-to-answer/ Fair Use... House Republican leaders today pressed President Obama on his delay of the ObamaCare employer mandate, asking why the...

This is a very long, very detailed article that pulls no punches and pretty much trashes both parties equally (be sure to read the last page, this isn't an argument for Obama Care either). It is an extremely in-depth look of the ins and outs of the current "Medical-Industrial Complex" (I had...

Y'all, I would go over to the Federal Register to get a peek at what is going to hit us with ...OCare. It is looking very ugly. The bureaucracy alone is going to be a nightmare. Scroll through the whole register because there are publications all over the place...

Eraser Duty for Bart? By MAUREEN DOWD March 20, 2010 Angry nuns have been calling Congressman Bart Stupak’s office to complain about his dismissive comments on their bravura decision to make a literal Hail Mary pass, break with Catholic bishops and endorse the health care bill. As a Catholic...

Rancho Cordova-based insurer launches medical marijuana coverage By Mark Glover mglover@sacbee.com Published: Tuesday, Mar. 2, 2010 - 12:00 am | Page 1B Last Modified: Tuesday, Mar. 2, 2010 - 10:28 am A Rancho Cordova-based insurer Monday launched what it calls the first nationally available...

Nicholas Sabloff September 19, 2008 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/19/mccains-plan-for-health-c_n_127900.html http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/mccain-on-banking-and-health/ http://www.contingencies.org/septoct08/mccain.pdf The Washington Post reports that the flap over...