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Mental Health and the Affordable Care Act – Not So Fast !
Gentle Reader – Although this was posted in 2013, it remains true in January of 2020. This was an idiotic rule made for the implementation of the ACA. Yet another of the 320 million reasons that we really need Medicare … Continue reading
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Handling Absolute Lies – What Does One Do?
Gentle Reader: About a month ago, I received a request for help from a friend, S. Her mother-in-law – F. – had been sent a series of assertions related to the Affordable Care Act; things that “were going to happen”. … Continue reading
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From The New Yorker: Restaurant Chains Have Managed to Combine Quality Control, Cost Control, and Innovation. Can Health Care?
Gentle Reader – Doctor Gawande’s piece from the New Yorker, below, details some interesting facts relted to the day-to-day operations of a restaurant called the Cheesecake Factory. He asks if there are things we in medicine can learn from this … Continue reading
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From the New York Times: Please Don’t Bleed on Me While I Pick Your Pocket
Powered by Qumana Gentle Readers – There should be some sympathy for our hospitals, especially safety-net institutions, the ones that provide care to our poorest and sickest. But this article, admirably written by Ms. Silver-Greenberg, points out the depths to … Continue reading
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From the New York Times: What Does Insurance Company Administrative Cost Look Like, and Do, to Our Citizens ?
Gentle Readers – Ms. Bernstein has documented – yet again, because we know and have known this – the consequences of a for-profit health system. The roughly 30% that the private insurers consume as their administrative cost makes health care … Continue reading
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Of Women, Health, and Death: This is Where the Anti-Choice Movement Leaves Us
Years ago, sometime around 1995, I sat with a colleague – now dead – who, over the years, had become a dear friend as well as a co-worker. A man who was raised a Catholic, joined the US Air Force, … Continue reading
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A Statement from Doctors for America
Gentle Readers – The statement following, which I am privileged to sign, is from an organization that attempts to make our lives a bit better every day. I am pleased to place this into my blog. AJ Layon ======================================================= A … Continue reading
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Problems in Paradise – What Does, and What Might, Our Health System Look Like: Part Three
Introduction We have reviewed the data on the US health system as it exists – both the costs and outcomes – as well as the reasons why these costs and outcomes exist as they do. This section is meant to … Continue reading
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From the New York Times: G.O.P. Plans to Use Purse Strings to Fight Health Law
Gentle Reader – We see the outlines of the strategies of the new House Majority to terminate health insurance reform. Is this what our people desired ? When it happens, is this what they will have wanted ? Please see … Continue reading
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