It’s been a year or so since TheDonald issued his executive orders covering dialysis procedures. The goals were laudable- more transplants and more home dialysis.
Continue reading A squelched executive order
Today is Thank-a-Letter-Carrier-Day.
Geez. I can’t stand these politically correct terms. Why not just thank my postman or my postlady? (When I grew up it was only men; thankfully, the government has grown up and lets any gender bring us our mail.)
Continue reading Going Postal?
Way back in the 1950s, most of us were petrified that some jackass would drop the bomb and annihilate the world. Given the “love’ that exuded among the superpowers, the fear of an atomic bomb and its fallout destroying humanity was palpable.
Here we go again. Not only, as I’ve reported before, has TheDonald shortened the open season for PPACA (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare), but he and his minions have been hard at work to prove that it is failing. By making it fail- or at least continually trying to kill it.
Continue reading Have you done this yet?
I published my thoughts on home dialysis and why the practice is not prevalent yesterday. And, while I wrote that post more than a month ago, it was percolating in the queue all along. So, I can’t really say that the government attempted to refute my findings- since their reach (approved 16 October, but published on 16 November) never had the opportunity to review my thoughts. But, I will discuss theirs, today.
Continue reading You get what you pay for!
The Federal program we know as Medicare, became a reality on 30 July 1965, when it was signed into law. But, the first patients could not sign up for benefits until 1 July 1966. And, by 1979, the American Medical Association managed to get a ruling that the moneys paid to doctors under the program could not be revealed to the public. The reasoning (sic) was that this was an invasion of the physician’s privacy.
Continue reading FOIA now works for Medicare, too!
