I can't describe the relief I feel that McCain joined with Collins and Murkowski in defeating the "skinny bill." Much of my FB page is full of similar joy and relief.

One friend's theory: In the Army, there's a thing called a "Physical Profile", where if you're injured, the doctor writes you a note that says what you're allowed to do in the ( Read more... )

I made a post over in ONTD about yet another study indicating problems with routine mammography. Of course, it also highlights that the professional breast exams most of us get from whichever providers . . . rather suck. There's a description of what an effective one is.

Also, it looks like there may be a test on the way to better distinguish ( Read more... )

And there are far too many tabs open, and the recruiter I had hoped to talk with yesterday (except that my phone was absolutely dead) and which fell through this morning (my fault, with a bit of a dose of new gmail annoyance) is not seeming to be in the office after noon, which is when I responded to her suggestion we talk this morning ( Read more... )

So I am still in the middle of kinda pack.ing and I read want to get to ultra and I haven't decided if I am leaving the car at Bwi or taking advantage of the extra Bwi bus service for the inauguration and leaving it near Greenbelt station.

Anyway, one of the myriad things I didn't accomplish last night was filling a prescription, as I was so very ( Read more... )

I have still been meaning to post about all manner of stuff, from integrated health care as a money saver (did you know the pentagon is doing stuff both with yoga and acupuncture?) to a Diane Rehm show with a discussion about metabolic syndrome as opposed to simple weight (short form of new 'aha' there: subcutaneous fat may be protective; it is ( Read more... )

I listened to this segment on Morning Edition this morning on the way to work ( Read more... )

So I'm kinda sorta working from home today, in that I've got stuff to do and my team lead's also off sick, but technically we don't work from home, so I'm also going to spend more time sleeping. Feeling a LOT better than yesterday; whether that's from the antibiotics or the accupuncture I have no idea. The difference in how muzzyheaded I was from ( Read more... )

Earlier in the week I read a few posts about the tea party debate and the calls to "let [he who chooses no insurance] die!"*

Then I'd read turnberryknkn's commentary about the Ron Paul staffer who'd raised 19m for the campaign, then died 2 weeks afterward, uninsured, from a sudden pneumonia. With $400k in medical bills from the ICU stay. Friends and family ( Read more... )

was a .pdf, so now that I've had a chance to read this article from back in 2000, before things worsened, I've decided to copy it all in. Entirely too many examples of people dying for lack of health insurance.

( full article behind the cut )

Need to get up and out, but NPR is now mentioning that Pennsylvania's low-income subsidized health insurance is ending at the end of the month. 42000 people will lose their coverage.

[transcript pending]further discussion about the ramifications - the Affordable Care Act would cover these people . . . but not until 2014 ( Read more... )