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Health Care

Shoes: Are They Tiny Coffins? (What would Paul Brand, M.D. say?)

by pribut on September 1, 2009

Can Shoes Be “Tiny Coffins”. Yes, they can.
(Please read comment section below. Author Chris McDougall has posted an informative comment and added to the quotes seen in Born To Run.  I’ll extract from the quotes, but be sure to read the comment. (If it says “comments closed”, which the blog does automatically at a set [...]

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67% – 33% Health Care Reform Wins Among Insured

by pribut on August 30, 2009

The Numbers You Can’t See
These are the hidden numbers. This is the truth from the recent Washington Post/ABC poll on opinions entitled “What Do Insured Think of Health Reform”. Three questions asked and three answered by a significant majority who clearly are positive on health care reform  in spite of all the negatives spun every [...]

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Amputation Costs and OPS (Obama Panic Syndrome)

by pribut on August 13, 2009

When Obama speaks a certain segment of the population seems to get red in the face and lose control. This seems to be a serious manifestation of OPS (Obama Panic Syndrome) which is difficult, if not impossible to treat. When Obama talked about Diabetic amputations he did make a mistake in the specifics of payment [...]

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Losing Big Time With Your Private Insurance Drug Plan

by pribut on August 11, 2009

The following is based on a quick twitter chat with someone who needed to obtain 2 Valium for a Lasik eye procedure.
How could you go wrong? You have a fine insurance plan. You can obtain any prescription you like for only meeting a $30 deductible. That goes for the $80 athlete’s foot prescription to the [...]

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Congress Fail: Shortage Looms as No Facilities In US to Produce Tech-99m

by pribut on July 25, 2009

For several years Canada has been the primary souce of production of technetium-99m, an isotope that according to the New York Times is used in more than 40,000 medical procedures a day in the United States. The procedures are important and critical to good medical care. The procedures include tests for cardiac disease, bone cancer, [...]

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It Just Doesn’t Add Up: Rocket Science and Healthcare

by pribut on July 12, 2009

It just doesn’t add up when you mix and match numbers that aren’t meant to be simply added together. When you have numbers that represent things that can’t be merely added together and derive from different measuring systems, you can’t simply join them together. If you thoughtlessly and carelessly put the numbers together, you could [...]

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