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Guest commentary: Health-care ‘reform’ won’t cut cost, improve delivery
By Admin
Most Americans believe proposed health-care-reform legislation is focused on improving the cost and delivery of health care.
Not true! Improvement of the health-care delivery system is only an illusion.
I suggest to you that this legislation is a clear case of camouflage and concealment. One only needs to examine the three most costly components of our current health-care system to shed light on the subject.
Finding the Nerve to Cut Health CostsBy Admin
Over the next several weeks, members of Congress will be confronted with one scary story after another about what will happen if they try to cut health care costs.
Roberts blasts health care bill because of huge cuts to MedicareBy Admin
Today, Sen. Roberts said the huge cuts to Medicare in the partisan health care reform bill would be devastating to seniors.
On the Senate floor today, Senator Roberts spoke in favor of an effort by Senator John McCain (R-AZ) to eliminate the devastating Medicare cuts in the bill that would put seniors at risk.
Doctor Shortage Is Worsening, Say Hospital CEOsBy Admin
Physician shortages are much more on hospital leaders’ minds these days than shortages of nurses or allied health professionals, a new AMN Healthcare survey of 285 hospital chief executive officers shows. The CEOs doubt there are enough clinicians available to cope with the sharply increased demand for services that healthcare reform is expected to generate.
Salem reviews options for city health benefitsBy Admin
Rising costs are compelling Salem to re-evaluate the health benefits it has long provided city and school system employees and retirees.
House Hearing to Focus on Insurers’ Denial of TreatmentBy Admin
As Republicans argue that Democratic health care proposals would put government bureaucrats between doctors and patients, one of the House’s most liberal members is making a counter-argument: Insurance company bureaucracies are already in the way.
Saint Al’s owner to buy Mercy Medical Center and othersBy Admin
Two of the biggest Catholic health care systems in the United States are making a deal that would put Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in charge of running a new, regional hospital system.
Oversight Committee Reviews Health Indiana PlanBy Admin
Niki Kelly, reporting for the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, has an article on a hearing by the Select Joint Commission on Medicaid Oversight about the Healthy Indiana Plan.
For Common Male Problem, Hope Beyond a PillBy Admin
IF you watch enough television, you’d think that treating erectile dysfunction was as effortless as popping a pill and then whirling your partner around the living room in a romantic dance. Correcting erectile dysfunction, alas, is not so simple — and it can be rather costly. One Viagra pill, for example, the most common way to treat erection problems, costs about $15.
My H1N1 Story Government Run Health ScareBy Admin
For months the Obama administration has been working to scare the hell out of every American concerning a “world wide pandemic” of the H1N1 “swine flu” virus. This week, Obama health officials are out in number warning that the virus will infect 50% of Americans over the coming weeks, and that at least 90,000 Americans will die, double the number of normal flu season fatalities.
Many Uses of Siberian Chaga MushroomBy Admin
Siberian chaga mushroom appears as a black mass on birch trees, dead or alive. Occasionally, it may also be seen growing on hornbeam, ash, elm or beech.
Eurasians have used it for centuries to treat tuberculosis, digestion, and cancers of the heart and liver. [121]
The black “skin” was removed and the lighter inside boiled as tea. Being such a compact natural medicine made it a valuable, portable remedy for healers of old.
New orthopedic practice opening at Hendricks Regional HealthBy Admin
Hendricks Regional Health announces a new orthopedic and sports medicine practice, Hendricks Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, at 100 Hospital Lane, Suite 300, Danville. Physicians Kyle Ritter, M.D., and Chad Waits, M.D., are orthopedic and sports medicine specialists trained in orthopedic surgery and devoted to the diagnosis, management, rehabilitation and prevention of injuries and diseases of the musculoskeletal system.
Health Science Center’s nuclear medicine program earns accreditationBy Admin
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio says its program that trains resident physicians in nuclear medicine has accredited through 2014 by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
Health Science Center officials say the program received an exemplary rating from the council, which oversees the accreditation of post-medical doctor training programs in the United States.
Eliminating polio requires global, coordinated effortBy Admin
Thematic issue on global health explores common health challenges, solutions to eradicating polio, combating malaria, and providing care in developing countries
Bethesda, MD—Eliminating polio everywhere will require global cooperation on several fronts, including lowering the cost for poor countries to vaccinate with inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), says a leading global health researcher in the July/August Health Affairs thematic issue on global health.
Low alcohol intake wards off dementiaBy Admin
A small amount of alcohol may help lower the risk of dementia in older adults, according to a study by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
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