Excerpts from Before You Take That Pill and Blogs About Healthcare
by Doug Bremner MD
Blogs
May 15, 2008. Dealing With Our Nation's Healthcare Crisis, One State At a Time
I was sitting in my daughter's orientation for a year overseas with the AFS Program
listening to this over-protective mother keep babbling on about how her daughter
hadn't been assigned to a program yet, didn't have a visa, blah blah blah.
When she started to fret about what would happen if she got in an accident
overseas and needed healthcare I just had to but in...
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April 8, 2008. Stop That Patient! Or the Corpocracy Rules, Part 1
I had a stomach ache coming home on the plane this weekend from vacation
in Costa Rica and I couldn't tell if it was coming back online (literally as
well as figuratively) to America's prescription drug woes, the unwashed
fruit I had for breakfast in Costa Rica...
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February 23, 2008. Live Without Insurance
An article today in the NYT described people who go without insurance as "free riders",
or at least that is what health economists describe them as. Isn't that term telling?...
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October 7, 2007.
Private Health Insurance Company Abuses Associated with Bush's
Medicare Drug Benefit Program Are Not a Surprise.
An article in today's New York Times ("Medicare Audits Show Problems in Private Plans")
describes the abuses of private insurance companies of the government's
Medicare Drug Benefit Plan. This was long expected by us.
You see, Bush got a lot of donations from pharmaceutical companies
and their allies, so in order to pay them back, he got
the Medicare Drug Plan passed.
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