Tag: Health Care
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My brain tumor and a lesson on what a great hospital system can mean
So I’ve been sick. Not just a little sick. I mean, tumor on the brain sick. It’s amounted to a crazy week for me, which started on Monday during a walk. I was having trouble walking in a straight line. I couldn’t compensate for my left leg so while climbing an embankment to get on…
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Here’s why the improved economy means so little
The stock market is reaching record highs again, which make us moneyed people woozy. I’m modestly including myself here although I’m not that well moneyed. But I am retired on a nice pension with plenty of assets to draw on should things go south. The Dow Jones Industrial Average passed 27,000 yesterday and closed for…
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At the health care inflection point
Back in January I mentioned a mindful eating course I was enrolled in. A full discussion of the course is probably for another time if I think it warrants a blog post. (I’ve become pickier about what I blog about, as I post less frequently and am trying hard to make my posts more relevant…
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Aging gratefully
Another birthday rolled around yesterday. For once the first of February felt like it should: bitterly cold and snowing. I am not much on celebrating birthdays, which is probably why I scheduled an outpatient procedure on my birthday. Specifically, I had a colonoscopy, a distasteful but necessary procedure for us insured humans age fifty plus.…
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Solving the medical forms hassle
Seven years ago, I suggested that the ubiquitous thumb drive should become our electronic wallet. You would simply plug it into the point of sale device, authorize the transaction (a PIN is acceptable, but a thumb scan would be better), and an electronic receipt would get stored on the device. The receipt could later be…
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Some ways to cut medical costs
Are we paying too much for medical treatment? Ask a physician and they would probably tell you that you are not paying enough. Ask the rest of us and we would say, “Hell yeah!” One clue that physicians may be myopic on this is to compare how much Americans pay for health care vs. other…
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State of the Union
President Obama gave a pretty good state of the union speech on Tuesday. He ended it with the usual rhetorical flourish that speaks more to our aspirations than to reality. He closed with: We do big things. The idea of America endures. Our destiny remains our choice. And tonight, more than two centuries later, it’s…
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Why Republicans are duty bound to cancel their insurance
Over the last couple of years, my family has been at fault for two automobile accidents. I got in a minor fender bender when a car clipped the side of my bumper as I was trying to pull into traffic. My daughter, being a relatively inexperienced driver, also had an accident. She learned it’s not…
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Hospitalized
It was more than ironic that less than twelve hours after writing my last post on violence related to recently enacted health care legislation, I would be putting our health care system to the test. After posting Wednesday night I readied myself for bed. On my way to the bathroom, my right toe grazed the…
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Tea Partiers: Armed and Dangerous
I guess it is too much to expect Tea Partiers to just go home and be pissed off but lawful citizens. No one expected any of them (or for that matter, most Republicans) to be happy with the health care reform legislation signed into law yesterday. It’s okay for them to vent their spleens, call…
Occam's Razor 