It’s that time of year again. No, I don’t mean the wicked Christmas shopping season. It’s flu season.
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Monthly Archives: November 2015
1101 (That’s 13 in computer code- base 2)
Climate change deniers. GMO danger mongers. Cutting taxes to zero will raise more revenue for the US. Given the plethora of illogic echoing from sea to shining sea, it’s not surprising that many are also gripped by paraskevidekatriaphobia right now.
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The COOPs. Part 3. The end?
Well, I didn’t think this explanation of health care coops would go on this long. But, it turns out there’s a lot to setting up new insurance companies. (Yes, I should recall how much it took to set up our liability insurance coop, as I described here.)
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The COOPs. Part 2.
As discussed yesterday (this is part 3 of an update on PPACA- there is one more in this array.), PPACA (Obamacare) originally considered a single-payer solution. For about a second. Then, the goal was to develop non-profit insurers to compete against the existing health insurers, thereby providing (one would hope) lower cost alternatives for US citizens. All in the name of arresting health care cost increases- and, preferably, to lower our health care expenditures.
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The COOPs. No, not the MIT/Harvard one, either.
So, yesterday, I talked about how corporations are using PPACA (Obamacare) as a wedge with which they can obtain information to which they really are not entitled. And, as a means to lower their health care costs, via an avenue that is impermissible. One that the regulators have begun to address.
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Corporate Overreach?
I have a few posts in the queue about the Affordable Care Act and how it’s been faring. In particular, how the actions of those that detest the act have made things more intolerable. But, today, I will be discussing how companies have been subverting the act for their own purposes.
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More is NOT better.
Yesterday, we spoke of Dr. Graf and his development of HEART cars– but more importantly the training and use of paramedics. Now, there’s new data that our decision to continually add toys to our ambulances does not yield the best care for our patients.
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Leaving the world a better place…
It is becoming less likely we are surprised to learn about the demise of nonagenarians. Back when I was younger, someone making it to 70 or 75 was pretty amazing.
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eMadness?
Between my two primary eMail addresses, I get about 2500 pieces of eMail a day. And, that doesn’t include the fact that someone added one address to a slew of junk mail lists. (Thankfully, that spam is blocked.)
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Animal. Human. Not so different after all.
I’ve written about the practice of feeding antibiotics to our animals. And, why that puts our overall health at risk. After all, if we feed the same antibiotics to animals that we use for disease control, microbial resistance is bound to accelerate. First, because the animals will harbor microbes that get a chance to mutate and those resistant microbes can be transferred to humans via our food. Moreover, the antibiotics we feed our animals often end up in our waterways, which provides yet another process where the microbes can develop resistance to our critical drugs.
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