I recently emailed Dr.J of the Gormogons a few comments on his comments on my comments on his post about 3rd party payors in health insurance. Dr.J graciously responded. While I do have more comments/questions that are germane to the original topic, I realize that I have inadvertently strayed perilously close to “ongoing dialog” territory. [...]
Tagged health care, PersonalA week and a half ago, Dr. J at The Gormogons posted something entitled The Problem with Third Party Payors. I had been meaning to write about the topic for the past couple of months, but never quite got around to it, probably because it is personally embarrassing. Dr. J’s point is pretty succinct: …if [...]
Tagged Economics, health care, PersonalRat Jr. has been taking a lot of heat on that Face Page thingy from her “friends” about her opposition to Obamacare. Bruce McQuain has a great post today entitled Health Care is still not a “right,” in which he explains the difference between an inherent right and a government granted priviledge. So, I thought [...]
Tagged envy, greed, health care, Nanny State, PoliticsSmile! (via Doug Ross)
Tagged health care, ObamaIn graph form, no less!
Tagged abuse of power, health care, lie to me, Nanny State, Politics, taxesAddiction in America is set to increase massively in the next year or so. A new recreational drug epidemic? No. They’re just getting ready to change the definition of “addiction” in the new DSM (V, I think). The new definition makes diagnosing someone as an addict much easier. The DSM (Diagnistic and Statistical Manual of [...]
Tagged abuse of power, cronyism, ethics, follow the money, health care, lie to meOr maybe not. Douglas Adams had a character in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Marvin, an incredibly intelligent robot who was, for lack of a better term, terminally depressed. University of Texas researchers have now created a computer with schizophrenia. One small step for man, one giant leap for robot therapists. (via GeekPress)
Tagged Computers, Science/Technology, wtf?Legiron discusses and links to an in-depth post about breast cancer. The question is, “Why do women in the Western world die from breast cancer at a rate of about 1 in 10, while women in China die of breast cancer die at a rate of about 1 in 10,000?” The answer appears to be [...]
Tagged food, health care, Science/TechnologyI’ve only seen one mention of this in the past week. It seems Army scientists have come up with a simple blood test to determine whether or not you’ve had a concussion. It could just be me being cynical, but do you suppose this would be all over the MSM if it had been discovered [...]
Tagged health care, Science/TechnologyFrom Dr. Boli (to whom I apologize for quoting the whole post): ARE YOU GULLIBLE? Volunteers are needed for a large placebo-controlled study of a new placebo. Placebos are an incredibly powerful new class of drugs that harness positive mental energy to solve all your problems and make all your dreams come true. We need [...]
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