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…
Oh Death!
Posted in Health Care, Health Insurance, and Medical Care
Category: Health Care
Free the Doctors (9/2/2009)
Posted in Health Care
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…
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…
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…
“Cost” of Health Care: Biggest & Ugliest Elephant in the Room
Posted in Health Care, and Health Insurance
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…
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…
Public Option – Creeping Coverage – POCC
Posted in Health Care, and Health Insurance
(With apologies to blog post subscribers because I mistakenly “Published” a work in progress that had some old data.) It is very difficult to get…
Obamacare Replacement Act
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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…
The Birth and Failure of “Obamacare”
Posted in Health Care, and Politics
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,…
I think we should ban the word, “affordable,” because it is subjective and meaningless without context. What is affordable to one person is not affordable…