Health Care
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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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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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July 3, 2016
Doctor Raises Rates; Patient Refuses to Pay (3/11/2010)
Originally published 3/11/2010 · republished 2016
Dr. Oscar Livingstone Simpson, contemporary of my parents, practiced medicine in East Tennessee, mostly Maryville, from the 1950’s to the 1990’s, and he wrote a book…
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July 1, 2016
Flu Shots and Tooth Maintenance (Posted 9/3/2009)
Originally published 9/3/2009 · republished 2016
Yesterday morning, I went to the CVS Minute Clinic to get a flu shot (not H1N1, just regular flu). It’s pretty convenient so you might…
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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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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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June 30, 2016
How About Some MSRP’s for Medical Care? (Posted 4/21/2015)
Originally published 4/21/2015 · republished 2016
Physicians and hospitals in the USA offer excellent medical care, in quality, quantity, and timeliness, to rich and poor alike. Of course there are exceptions,…
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July 14, 2016
I Know the USA, and the USA Is No Finland (2/14/2012)
Originally published 2/14/2012 · republished 2016
It is frustrating to hear people argue that the United States needs to do health care, education, social spending, etc., like Finland or other small…
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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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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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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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June 19, 2023
The Power of Suggestion
I have clear memories of having my tonsils removed at age 5 or 6 in the 1940’s. It was standard procedure for children at…
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June 19, 2016
TQM, Health Care, and the Federal Government
Originally published 2/13/2014 · republished 2016
(Originally Posted 2/13/2014) TQM, Total Quality Management, was a 1980’s, 1990’s buzzword that, as all buzzwords eventually do, has pretty much vanished from the language…
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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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August 6, 2017
Irrational Government Meddling: Stop It!
There are at least five good reasons government should not meddle in the affairs of private free enterprise.
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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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