This is something that gets passed around communities of folks with rare/chronic diseases. It’s well worth the read, since most of us will cross paths with someone with a chronic illness at some point. I can’t think of a better analogy. Click on the link that says “click here to read The Spoon Theory”. It’s [...]
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Spoons and Swine
Posted in health care, life after....., the patient experience on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Golden Rule
Posted in Politics, health care on November 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What worries me most about the article linked in that last post is the response of the AHIP. A curt “no”? Without some form of push back on private insurers, be it vigorous competition, regulation, or DEcreased tort reform (yes), and placing them back in the arena of antitrust regulation, they are going to continue [...]
A Health Care Hero
Posted in Kaiser Permanente, health care on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It is all too easy to rant and rave about the wrongs, but I really believe the more we focus on what’s wrong, the more wrong there is, whether reality or mere perception. I also believe that we Americans have become complacent. How many generations must die to protect our freedoms, before we remember to [...]
Pick Any Two
Posted in Politics, health care on October 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tom Bodenheimer caught the managed care dilemna neatly: “cost, quality, access — pick any two”. It was a sign he saw hanging on a wall in a West coast Medicaid HMO.
The Piper will be paid
Posted in Politics, health care on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I find the quandary Baucus is now in to be more than a little ironic. He seemed so confident in his monumental success as he attempted to serve up a load of tripe to the American public all the while shilling for the insurance industry under the guise of working hard for John Q. He [...]
Fighting politics as usual
Posted in Politics, health care on October 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I saw this article, and couldn’t help but wonder, if the discussion were purely one based on realities, and not lobbying or political pandering, where insurance reform movement would stand right now. It is interesting to me, the ebb and flow of political opinion from outsiders, insiders, and former insiders. I really want to believe [...]
As is confession
Posted in health care, life after....., the patient experience on October 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In spite of having a file of posts stacked up like planes above O’Hare, there was a notable silence around these parts last week. I awoke Friday morning, retreated to my recliner with it’s comforting heat and massage as is my ritual, to find this article waiting to fill my world with sunshine. Six hours [...]
The research supremacy myth
Posted in Politics, health care, research on October 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of the reasons cited for clinging to a bloated, dying, inefficient system of health care delivery, is the idea we lead the world in innovation. Well, there’s something to that, we Americans have churned out an impressive stream of life-changing innovations in our time. Medicine and pharmacology is not our greatest strength. As much [...]
Why should I pay?
Posted in Politics, health care on October 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’m often asked by conservatives why they should pay for someone else’s health care. It’s a valid question. I certainly am no believer in free lunch. Let me see if I can explain. The most important issue to understand is, if you have health insurance, see a doctor, pay taxes, or work, you’re already paying [...]
Putting the “life” in pro-life
Posted in Politics, health care on October 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One issue that has me completely confused, is the seeming overlap between people who would identify themselves as conservatives, most of whom seem to be pro-life, and yet seem to be anti-health care reform. I wish I could find it now, but a prior linksurfing trip wound me up at some piece along the lines [...]
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