‘Texas justice’ will not fix health care
Friday, October 23, 2009
by Patrick Barry

Richard Weekley's Oct 20 Commentary piece, “Tort reform helps Texas health care,” is a strange selection to print. Imposing Texas-style, one-size-fits-all caps on awards to the most seriously injured patients would not help improve health care. To the contrary, the ( Read more... )

"More isn't always better, Linus.  Sometimes it's just more." - Sabrina (1995)

The Telltale Wombs of Lewiston, Maine

Snippets: 
Sitting at a table with most of the medical transactions in the state of Vermont listed before him, Wennberg was able to see just how bizarre the distribution of care was. People in one town would get their hemorrhoids ( Read more... )

Do you think maternity care should be covered by health care plans?

Republican Senator Jon Kyl from Arizona doesn't.  Because, as a man, he thinks he has no use for maternity care...

Recently during a debate of health care amendments involving maternity care, Senator Kyl said: "I don't need maternity care. And, so requiring that to be on my ( Read more... )

Excerpts of my favorite parts:

The doctor who saw me in the ER wrote in her report: "nice 67 y.o. male, flat affect, awake, alert and appropriate." I had appeared with slurred speech and a balloon in my head, had driven myself to United Hospital in St. Paul, parked in No Parking, walked in and was triaged right in to a neurologist...

I never wanted ( Read more... )

Have you heard anything about the so-called "death book" being given to Vets?

The booklet is called -
Your Life, Your Choices: Planning for Future Medical Decisions: How to Prepare a Personalized Living Will

Are you blindly listening to the rhetoric about it, or have you seen it yourself?

Read it here as a pdf.

I'm looking at it right now, and it ( Read more... )

REALITY: Companies with annual payrolls of less than $250,000 would pay no penalty under the House bill. The House bill would establish a 2% payroll penalty for employers with combined payroll between $250,000 to $300,000 that don't offer health insurance to employees; a 4% penalty for employers with $300,000 to $350,000 in payroll; a 6 ( Read more... )

An interesting (and potentially disheartening) perspective:::

I always wonder why some people seem to make up their minds before they get all the facts.  Maybe this is one of the reasons why...

Snippets from article:

It’s been discouraging watching these so-called town hall meetings on health care reform. One imagines a time when informed citizens ( Read more... )

New poll reports 77% of Americans support the CHOICE of public option government-run health care
More than three out of every four Americans feel it is important to have a "choice" between a government-run health care insurance option and private coverage, according to a public opinion poll released on Thursday.

Link to article on Huffington Post:
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Why is the Medical Device Safety Act a good thing?

Here's why: 
http://www.mycentraljersey.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009908110304

August 11, 2009  - By JEFF WEBER • STAFF WRITER
Several years ago, Jan Beadling was driving with her daughter when she went into cardiac arrest and slipped into a coma. Beadling was rushed to a hospital, and her ( Read more... )

Article from The Independent, a UK paper:
The brutal truth about America’s healthcare
Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-brutal-truth-about-americarsquos-healthcare-1772580.html

Snippets from article:

Info about the free care in LA:

...these extraordinary scenes in Inglewood, California yesterday provided a sobering reminder ( Read more... )