Category · 11 postsHealth Care
All posts in the automatic “Health Care” category, newest first.
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July 29, 2018
Oh Death!
Posted a few years back on an earlier website. Dr. Ralph Stanley (1927-2016) was, for several years, an annual visitor at Bill’s Pickin’ Parlor just…
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November 29, 2017
Free the Doctors (9/2/2009)
Originally published 9/2/2009 · republished 2017
I found the quote below at a US Government Health and Human Services website about Medicare payments. Believe me, I didn’t make this up. “This…
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November 29, 2017
Death Panel Op-Ed in Today’s New York Times (11/15/2009)
Originally published 11/15/2009 · republished 2017
Earl Blumenauer, D – Oregon, explains in an op-ed today where all the “Death Panel” uproar was born. He says that in his years in…
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November 29, 2017
Urinary Tract Infections and Medicare Waste (11/16/2009)
Originally published 11/16/2009 · republished 2017
About ten days ago I was feeling really bad and started having chills. By the next morning I had a fever and obvious symptoms of…
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July 3, 2017
“Cost” of Health Care: Biggest & Ugliest Elephant in the Room
I remember in my young adult years a common subject of discussion was the “cost of building” a new home in a particular location. I…
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June 23, 2017
The Innovator’s Prescription by Clayton Christensen – Good Health Care Read
Originally published March 2010 · republished 2017
Now that “health care,” a euphemism for insurance, is back on the table, I thought I transfer some more stuff from the old blog to…
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February 21, 2017
Public Option – Creeping Coverage – POCC
(With apologies to blog post subscribers because I mistakenly “Published” a work in progress that had some old data.) It is very difficult to get…
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November 11, 2016
Obamacare Replacement Act
The “Repeal and Replace” mantra has become a joke since we have not seen any reasonable, easily understood, proposal for the replacement, let alone any…
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October 11, 2016
The Birth and Failure of “Obamacare”
The post below was written during the negotiations leading up to the March, 2010, passage of the Affordable Care Act. Passage of the proposed legislation,…
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July 7, 2016
Affordable Stuff (Such as Housing and Health Care)
I think we should ban the word, “affordable,” because it is subjective and meaningless without context. What is affordable to one person is not affordable…
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June 23, 2016
Health Care Olympics – Norway vs. USA (Originally Published 8/28/2009)
Originally published 8/28/2009 · republished 2016
It is frustrating to hear simplistic comparisons such as, “Norway spends less on health care than we do and it’s all free there and they…
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