Health and Sanity category archive
Vaccine Nation 0
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Jonathan Berman, professor, National Co-Chair of the 2017 March for Science, and author of “Anti-Vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement,” joins David to discuss the origins of vaccine skepticism, how to deprogram anti-vaxxers, and much more.
“Facts Are What People Think” 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., muses on lethal quality of hogwash in our seemingly fact-free society. Here’s how he opens his column; follow the link for the rest.
“Hogwash,” you may recall, was the word a grocery-store owner in Naples used last month in dismissing the seriousness of the COVID-19 pandemic.
We are a society of stupid.
Maskless Marauders 0
F. T. Rea has had enough.
“Societal Malpractice” 0
Sam and his crew report on the little girl who’s selling lemonade to pay for an operation and what it and the news coverage of it tell us about the American health care industrial complex.
Vaccine Nation 0
At The Roanoke Times, Dan Casey chronicles one woman’s month’s long journey to score a COVID vaccination appointment.
(Here on the farm, we’re still on the waiting list.)
Just the Vaxx, Ma’am 0
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You can blame a lot of this delusional thinking on the disinformation superhighway and persons’ willingness to believe anything they see on a computer screen when they wouldn’t believe the same damn thing if it happened right before their eyes.
The Fee Hand of the Market 0
At the Inky, Harold Brubaker takes a look at hospital fees for various services that have been recently made available under a new federal regulation strongly opposed by hospitals and insurers. He concludes that they make no sense when exposed to the light. A snippet; follow the link for more.
Those are the prices consumers with high-deductible plans would have to pay to scan their knee and find out how serious the source of their pain is.
And replacing that knee would cost from $12,300 to more than $44,000 under insurance plans that IBC sells to employers and individuals.
The notion, often promoted by persons who call themselves “conservative,” that someone who is sick will comparison-shop for health care has always been fanciful. The reality is that, if there is a choice, a patient will go where his or her doctor says, and, in rural areas, there is often little or no choice from the git-go. Add in a landscape of wildly variable and irrational pricing schemes, comparison shopping for health care becomes an impossible dream all-too-possible nightmare.
Maskless Marauders 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Alexandra Brewis and Amber Wutich discuss a recent study regarding wearing masks in these viral times. A snippet:
Misdirection Play, Florida Man Dept. 0
Farron is somewhat upset.