Of course it’s true that preventing disease is less painful and less costly than treating disease. Or is it?
Take the recent New York Times article (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/health/21cancer.html) addressing mammogram and prostate cancer screening. Apparently over the last 20+ years of screening with mammograms, we have been able to discover many more breast cancers that are small, [...]
Archive for the ‘Health Care Proposals’ Category
thinking more unthinkable thoughts
Posted in Health Care, Health Care Proposals, Janice on November 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Link Farm, Mostly Related to Bipolar Disorder
Posted in Health Care, Health Care Proposals, Lynn Gazis-Sax, tagged bipolar disorder on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
X-Ray Tech Schools has an article about 10 common myths about bipolar disorder. These include ones that are more likely to be held by the general public (e.g. mania is always happy) and ones that are more likely to be held by people with the illness (it’s OK to stop taking my meds if [...]
Public Option with Opt Outs
Posted in Commerce, Health Care, Health Care Proposals, Nation, Politics, Steve S., tagged Opt outs on October 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My priorities for health care reform were costs, portability, opt out options for individual states and universal coverage, in that order. I knew it was unlikely that any of those other than broadened coverage was very likely. There is a big group of people who think that we should insure everyone [...]
Health Care Co-ops Work…
Posted in E. L. Beck, Health Care, Health Care Proposals, Nation, Politics, tagged healthcare co-ops, healthcare reform on October 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
…or so states Steven Hill in a recent Salon Op-ed piece. In it, Hill claims,
The good news for both liberals and conservatives is that nonprofit healthcare cooperatives could substantially impact market dynamics, without increasing the size of government.
Of course, Hill adds an important measure to ensure the success of the co-ops:
But while having more nonprofit [...]
Health reform bill passes senate finance committee
Posted in Health Care, Health Care Proposals, Janice on October 13, 2009 | 4 Comments »
A bill has passed the senate finance committee, with “bipartisan support”, which means one Republican voted for it. The bill is only a tiny part of a health care reform package that will eventually by voted on in the house and the senate.
This tiny piece provides for more affordable universal health insurance, which is [...]
Quick links, mostly scientific
Posted in Commerce, Health Care Proposals, Lynn Gazis-Sax, Science, World on October 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
New Strategy For Mending Broken Hearts? Via my husband.
Human Cadaver Handling for Dummies.
Paying Attention to How People in Muslim Countries See the United States.
The Worst Words for the Economy.
The New England Journal of Medicine on Baucus’s Bill and the Long Road to Reform.
Pigs Defeating RFID-Enabled Feeding Systems.
Can public and private options coexist?
Posted in Culture, Health Care, Health Care Proposals, Pat S., Private, Public on October 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
In a recent discussion of health care reform, the point was made that public and private options already coexist successfully in our society. One example given was higher education, a comparison I don’t see as valid. The main difference I see between health care and higher education is that the higher education products offered can [...]
Of Two Minds
Posted in Anahata56, Ethics, Health Care, Health Care Proposals, Politics on October 8, 2009 | 7 Comments »
It’s been difficult to avoid, unless you live under a rock somewhere, the ongoing debate regarding health care reform in this country. And while I thought that it might be a mistake, I watched Olbermann’s hour-long “Special Comment” last night, just to hear what he had to say. And I have to say that, while [...]
Ivory Power
Posted in Community, Culture, Education, Ethics, Health Care, Health Care Proposals, Lifestyle, Media, Mind, Nation, Nature, Politics, Science, Scott Lahti, Technology, World, tagged Michael Ostrolenk, Miller-McCune, transpartisanship, Utne.com on October 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Miller-McCune, a magazine launched in 2008, strives to translate recent academic research into readable articles offering innovative and nonpartisan approaches to challenging issues of the day. If you’ve already discovered the joys of The Wilson Quarterly, you’ll find much here to your taste:
The online magazine Miller-McCune.com harnesses current academic research with real-time reporting to address [...]
Take another shot of courage, wonder why the right words never come
Posted in Health Care Proposals, Lynn Gazis-Sax, Politics, Self, Sex, Woman, World on September 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This Saturday’s link round up has a special focus on the not so honored tradition of picking up drunk strangers in bars and sleeping with them. OK, most of the links aren’t actually about this, but several of them are.
First, though, I need to tell you about the baklava. It has long been [...]
Where does the money come from and where does it go?
Posted in Health Care Proposals, Janice on September 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
All water is recycled. The drip from my nose was, at one point, the drip from someone else’s nose and so on. And the same goes for money. There is a limited amount of money, as it represents resources, but it doesn’t just go away when we spend it. So, with health care dollars, the [...]
Health care of my dreams
Posted in Commerce, Ethics, Franklin Evans, Health Care, Health Care Proposals, Politics on September 24, 2009 | 5 Comments »
In a previous post, The Case Against (more) Profit in Health Care, I offer (with the first reply post) some background and rational support for the notion that making a profit from caring for the sick and injured is immoral. I’ll reiterate a clarifying point before continuing: I am not saying that no one should [...]
Wise people write editorials…
Posted in Health Care Proposals, Janice on September 23, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Zippity do da, hooray and yay! Yet another doctor writes an awesome editorial for the New England Journal of medicine taking responsibility for the cost of health care and offering a solution that would make the whole way we do our jobs more effective! Please listen, Washington DC!
http://healthcarereform.nejm.org/?p=1884&query=TOC
MANDATORY INfVRANCE, AKA ANOTHER THEFT MADE LEGAL, GO THOV AND. FORNICATE THYfELF, VIA THY GARGANTVAN GLVTEVf MAXIMVf, WORLD WITHOVT END, AMEN.
Posted in Ethics, Health Care, Health Care Proposals, Nation, Politics, Scott Lahti, tagged health insurance, Jeff Jacoby, American Conservative, mandatory health insurance on September 23, 2009 | Comments Off
Republicans and Democrats alike would like to gloss over the implications of mandatory insurance (a measure included in just about every proposed healthcare reform): it means a great many people will be forced to by health insurance they don’t want or else pay a fine — that is, a tax. This is guaranteed income for [...]
The Case for Killing Granny, and, Naked Came the Stranger While You (and He) Were Sleeping, or, She Was Asking for It, Your Honor: In My Dreams!
Posted in Family, Health Care, Health Care Proposals, Law, Science, Scott Lahti, Sex, tagged end of life care, sexsomnia on September 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Die, Mother’s mother!
The Case for Killing Granny
Rethinking end-of-life care.
By Evan Thomas | NEWSWEEK
And stop dragging your (failing) heart around, lest you become a drag in ways more than one yourself. Not to worry: like everything else that makes this country great, from corn chips to cornhole, Throwing Gramma from the Grav(it)y Train is blessedly bi-partisan, [...]
Is Max Baucus worse than his bite?–where are the wild things?
Posted in Health Care Proposals on September 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
(i’m not as good as you, DSL, but you’re inspiring).
See the announcement that Baucus has announced what a bill from his committee would look like, if there were a bill. WTF? As the article sez, he already said this in July.
Sigh. Just one more opportunity to be hysterical, esp. by [...]
Pirate blogging and other links
Posted in Ethics, Health Care Proposals, Lynn Gazis-Sax, Technology, War, World on September 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’ll be scarce blogging this week, but plan next week to have a whole bunch of blogging focused on treatment and self-help for people with bipolar disorder and depression. Till then, here are some links.
David Axe of War Is Boring will be embarking on a warship of the NATO force dedicated to deterring and [...]
♫ Boy, the meds Great-Granny’d toke/Billy’s toothache gets its coke/Land of Freedom’s now a joke/Those.Were.The.Drugs!…♫
Posted in Arts, Commerce, Ethics, Family, Health Care, Health Care Proposals, Law, Lifestyle, Mind, Science, Scott Lahti, tagged Americana, Drugs, cultural history on September 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Addiction Research Unit, University of Buffalo
(www.wings.buffalo.edu/aru/preprohibition.htm)
Most people don’t realize that, prior to the War on Drugs, anyone could buy mind-altering drugs in drug stores without a prescription — and yet there were not nearly the drug problems we have today. This very interesting site contains numerous photographs of labels from products containing heroin, cocaine, and [...]
Why isn’t malpractice reform an issue for democrats?
Posted in Health Care, Health Care Proposals, Janice on September 2, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Malpractice reform is not traditionally an issue that Democrats support. Why?
I think it is because democrats feel strongly that everyone, no matter how poor or disenfranchised, has a right to his or her day in court.
This is good: we are right to hold on to systems that allow people who have been wronged to [...]
Paying to Treat Cancer
Posted in Community, Culture, Health Care, Health Care Proposals, Nation, Public, Steve S., Technology, tagged Cancer costs, market principles on September 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Andrew Pollack at the NYT, via Ezra Klein and Julian Sanchez, has an interesting article on cancer drugs and their costs. Key quotes……
About 860 cancer drugs are being tested in clinical trials, according to the pharmaceutical industry’s main trade group. That is more than twice the number of experimental drugs [...]
A half day in the life, or how to waste $21,000 before lunch
Posted in Health Care, Health Care Proposals, Janice, tagged Physicians for affordable healthcare on September 1, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Health care in the United States is too expensive, and because it is too expensive, a large number of Americans do not have access to it. The story that is not being told in the national debate about health care reform is what exactly costs too much, and how to remedy the situation. Unnecessary costs [...]
Health Care — The Problem, and Health Care — The Solution by Harry Browne
Posted in Commerce, Health Care, Health Care Proposals, Nation, Politics, Scott Lahti, tagged Harry Browne, libertarianism, Why Government Doesn't Work on August 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Why Government Doesn’t Work by Harry Browne :
Foreword to 2003 Edition
This book was originally published in 1995 as the campaign book for my 1996 presidential campaign as the candidate of the Libertarian Party.
This 2003 edition has been revised slightly to eliminate references to my presidential campaign, to eliminate passages that pertained only to the [...]
