Six Obama Care Myths
No matter who you vote for in November, the myths going around about what the Affordable Health Care Act (Obama Care) abound. Here are the simple facts about Obama Care, and six myths you may not know.
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Bugs In the News: Brain Eating Amoeba, Hanta Virus, West Nile Virus
Bugs were in the news this month from Ebola in Africa, West Nile Virus in Texas, and the Neti Pot brain-eating bugs in Louisiana, and for the healthy campers of Yosemite there is Hanta Virus. Global warming and increasing temperatures have made conditions ripe for mosquitoes, amoebas, and virus to grow.
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Canada Health Care: Part 2
Update to the Canadian Health Care system. Turns out there is a reason that more Americans go to Canada for medicine, and health care, than Canadians come here. It is less expensive, the physicians spend more time with patients. So you have to ask US Big Pharma- do you really have to be this greedy?
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Pertussis: Adults get Re-vaccinated
The largest epidemic of Pertussis (whooping cough) is on-going – fueled in part by people who refuse to vaccinate their children, but more from adults who don’t know that the vaccine they had in childhood has worn off. If you are going to come in contact with an infant or newborn, do them a favor- get vaccinated today- it is easy, inexpensive, and you will be doing your part to stem this deadly epidemic.
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Smoking as Bad as Eggs?
Recent headlines stating “eggs are as bad as smoking” from a single article. Turns out the article was a poorly done article whose conclusions are highly suspect. Here are the reasons why.
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Alternative Medicine: Its Backwards
Beware of Big Nutra – a 34 billion dollar industry that is unregulated and yet has the blessing of Congress. It is time to put an end to how these devices, pills, and treatments go unregulated allowing consumers to not only waste money, but possibly time they could use for treatments that work.
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Foie Gras – Foodies Unite
As with “Prohibition” the ban of foie gras in California is starting some new industries — “duckeasies” and other ways of getting around the ban on this unctuous food. Instead of learning to produce the foie gras as has been done in Spain, they seek either overcome or get around the ban.
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Canadian Health Care Myths
Myths about the Canadian System of Health Care v. The United States continue to abound. Here are the facts about waiting times, coverage, and the drain of physicians to the US (hint- Canada has a better system than many would lead you to believe).
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Formula for Cutting Health Care
When in comes to health care delivery, we know that how we are doing it in the United States is not cost effective, or patient centered. We begin a series today looking at pilot programs in and out of the United States to see models of health care delivery that might work for us.
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