Category Archives: healthcare

Obesity and effect on healthcare costs

Daily Camera editorial page Erika Stutzman has been, and I assume still is, on a crusade regarding the deterimental effects of obesity. Here’s a study from Cornell University she can use for ammuntion in her next editorial. Obesity accounts for … Continue reading

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 Ali Abdullah Saleh: Wants to come to the US for medical care. Why? I keep reading that our medical care sucks here.

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The wonderful Canadian Health Care System

One of the treatments my daughter has had for her ulcerative colitis (UC) is REMICADE. She had it prior to her colectomy last May. While it worked temporarily it wasn’t the solution for her and she ended up having a … Continue reading

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Shout out to Children’s Hospital

I’d like to give one more shout out to The Children’s Hospital in Aurora. My daughter had surgery here on Thursday and it looks like she will most likely be discharged tomorrow, a day early. I can’t give them enough … Continue reading

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“…. hadn’t suffered enough….

hadn’t been on the wait list long enough and that there were people older than me that had been on the wait list longer than me… Welcome to Obamacare. of course the United States can do it better than Canada. … Continue reading

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Socialized medicine

I’m sure Obamacare can do a better job than Britain’s socialized health care system. Aren’t you?

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From 4% to 16% of GDP

That’s health care spending change from 1960’s to today. John Mackey’s political philosophy… “I believe in capitalism, I believe in markets, I believe in individual empowerment and indivual choice. So that’s my philosophy of politics and…” (very slight editing for … Continue reading

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Boulder should adopt Garrison Keillor

“Thirty-two percent of the population identifies with the GOP, and if we cut off health care to them, we could probably pay off the deficit in short order.” I don’t believe Garrison would stand out in the least among Boulder … Continue reading

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What happens when you reward healthy behavior?

At Safeway we believe that well-designed health-care reform, utilizing market-based solutions, can ultimately reduce our nation’s health-care bill by 40%. The key to achieving these savings is health-care plans that reward healthy behavior. As a self-insured employer, Safeway designed just … Continue reading

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Kennedy health care bill

Sounds expensive, sure hope the government can print money. Yea, I know they already do. A word of warning, “it will work until it doesn’t” just like the mortgage crisis.

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Single payer health experiment

First fix Medicare. Duh!

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Gov’t posts sensitive list of US nuclear sites

We’re from the government and we’re here to help. And you want the bureaucrats to have access to your health records?

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No good news here…

The economy stinks, and it’s going to get worse. These dire economic indicators are merely the prelude to the detonation of Social Security and Medicare, the Fat Man and Little Boy of financial catastrophe . Yippee!!! Bring on universal health … Continue reading

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Dental care in Britain

Yikes! While Amy’s experience is an extreme one, it highlights growing concerns about the state of the nation’s dental health. Last week, statistics obtained by the Liberal Democrats revealed that the number of people having teeth extracted in hospital has … Continue reading

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Phages and the FDA

I read this Popular Science article on Phages during the airplane ride to Florida. Is the FDA helping or hurting? Instapundit chimes in as well.

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Cigarette/tobacco tax

The Daily Camera has a short write-up on the recently implemented tobacco tax. My comments are… I sure hope the recipients of all these tax dollars don’t count their chickens before they hatch. And for the rest of us, as … Continue reading

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Tobacco tax

One group belives that raising tobacco taxes during a recession as a great opportunity to get smokers/tobacco users to quit. The other group is busy counting the money for children’s health care. I doubt they both can be right! Some … Continue reading

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United States heath care sucks…

It’s not even debatable anymore. IBD steps up to the plate and defends some good things about our present health care system. They aren’t saying it’s good or great, or doesn’t need fixing, just that it does many things better … Continue reading

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Monitoring your health care

Liberals, you were worried about the NSA, authorized by the Bush administration, listening in on our phone calls. Are you concerned about the government monitoring your health care? Looks like you can blame Tom Daschle’s influence for it. Of course, … Continue reading

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FTC harasses Taos herb company

So Native Essence Herb Co is fighting back and suing the FTC. ….the FTC maintains that claims based on historical or traditional herbal use should be substantiated by scientific evidence. The agency’s guidelines also say advertisers should not suggest, directly … Continue reading

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