Health and Sanity category archive
Bill and Shoe 0
At $589 for a second, that comes to an hourly rate of $2,129,400.
Health Scare 0
Wendell Potter predicts the tactics health insurers will use to fight against anything that looks like “Medicare for all.” A snippet:
A Case of Health Some-Call-It Insurance 0
David discusses increases in the cost of his health coverage and explains why free market concepts don’t apply to health care.
Oblivious to the Obvious 0
How should one react when studies prove the obvious?
“The New Gotchas” 0
Thom discusses the latest medical scam: Surprise Billing.
Picking the Public Purse 0
Thom explains the “Medicare disAdvantage” scam.
HMOtrocity 0
Aside:
In retrospect, I’ve concluded that the more to HMO-style health care that started in the 1970s and 1980s as the way to “fix” American heath care was a big mistake. It effectively put American health care under the control of insurance companies, which are incentivized, as the neologism goes, to provide as little actual care as possible, and removed it from medical professionals, most of whom (and yes there is the occasional glaring exception) care about caring.
The Pusher Men 0
A small move toward truth in vending . . . .
(snip)
Drug companies responded that adding prices to their commercials could unintentionally harm patients.*
Much more at the link.
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*Yeah. Right.
GOP Health Care: Don’t Get Sick.
If You Do Get Sick, Die Quickly.
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David points out Senator Chuck Grassley’s health care hypocrisy. (Warning: Commercial at the 7:30 mark.)
The “Tyranny” of Good Health Care 0
A caller, now living in Arkansas, describes his first-hand experience with Canadian healthcare and exposes the propaganda promulgated by the insurance companies.
