If you have insurance and think you are covered, read this article from The New York Times. There seems to be no end to the shenanigans used to steal as much money as they can in American healthcare. The sky…
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Ron Anthony Is a pen name. I have an economics and finance education. I have read extensively on the the healthcare crisis that is pulling this country down. I have experienced firsthand how expensive, cruel and mindless American healthcare can be. Age: 67 (been around). Florida. Can be reached at Ronanthony47@aol.com
OUR DENTAL DISASTER
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The CDC reports that 25% of seniors over 65 have no teeth at all. This is part of a national disaster. You would think that our teeth were not a part of us. Health care insurance does not cover them.…
OBAMACARE: A HALF A LOAF IS BETTER THAN NOTHING?
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In spite of that fact that Western Europe, Canada and Japan have varying forms of single payer healthcare systems with minimal or no health insurance companies that cover everyone at half the cost per person, we got the Affordable Care…
THE DETERIORATION OF EMPLOYER PAID HEALTHCARE INSURANCE
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American healthcare will continue to deteriorate as long as the present corrupt money driven system remains. Obamacare makes improvements, but is basically more of the same. Caps on out of pocket expenditures were supposed to go into effect in 2014,…
HOSPITAL PRICE ANARCHY AND HIGHWAY ROBBERY
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Hospitals are a big part of our developing healthcare disaster. Over half our health care expenditures go to hospitals. No other industry is as crazy as our hospitals. Hospitals are price anarchy as this article shows. Hospital chains often buy…
VA INCOMPETENCE AND/OR CORRUPTION WITH DRUG DATING
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A couple of months ago, I became aware of something with the VA that is at best incompetence and very possibly corruption. I have three drugs. The VA automatically labels over drugs with VA prescription information and a “discard after”…
WAIT TIMES FOR MEDICAL CARE
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In the debate over what kind of healthcare we should have, Conservatives bring up wait times for medical procedures in other countries to prove that other healthcare systems are really inferior to ours. Each country has different wait times. Some…
DRUG COMPANIES AT WORK #2
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“To protect against premature births and miscarriages in women who don’t secrete enough progesterone, doctors have for decades prescribed progesterone medications that were made by state-licensed compounding pharmacies. The cost per injection was around $20. By granting orphan drug status…
DRUG COMPANIES AT WORK #1
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Everyone is aware of the outrageous drug prices that we have in this country. All the other countries have some form of price controls on drugs. That’s why desperate low income people, particularly seniors, cross the Canadian border and order…
OBAMACARE AND THE COURTS
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Two federal courts have ruled contradictory opinions whether Obamacare can use subsidies in federal exchanges because the law didn’t say it could. This looked like the Democrats and the health insurance companies’ lobbyists did a sloppy job with the…