They take our money, and hand it over to hospitals and doctors, while keeping a good portion for themselves. What a waste, huh? Well, yes and no. To see a really illuminating discussion of health insurance companies, and what they really do, see this blog http://michaelbrownmd.blogspot.com/2010/02/health-insurance-does-not-earn-its.html by Michael Brown– the Chief Information Officer at Harvard…
My kids are interested in learning how to use Facebook. So I figured it was time for me to learn something about this tool, meaning that at the ripe young age of 47, I’ve joined the ranks of the Facebook users. Now I need help from all of you to teach me how to learn…
My Center at CBDSM regularly posts what we call the “Decision of the Month.” Our most recent DoM highlights some research I conducted with Sarah Gollust, a UM graduate student now working at Penn. Click on this link, http://www.cbdsm.org/doms/diabetes-lobby, to find out what happens when people learn about how neighborhoods influence people’s health. …
Okay, as fine as is her midriff, most of you probably don’t list Megan Fox’s belly button as her first, um, attribute worth pondering. But bear with me–her belly button IS key to understanding why the Massachusetts senate seat just went to a Republican, and why Democratic efforts to reform our healthcare system are now…
It is pothole season in Michigan, with roads crumbling under the pressure of winter cold. Then again, with the condition of our state’s dismal economy, pothole season is becoming a year-round phenomenon here in the Great Lake State. Michigan’s government can no longer afford to fix roads like it used to, and the same goes…
Answer = Himself Question = Who is Mark McGwire trying to deceive? It’s laughable, isn’t it. • He took steroids for “health reasons” • The drugs “didn’t help him” hit home runs • The “steroid era” made him do it Mark McGwire’s belated confession to using performance enhancing drugs was only surprising in his determination…
Easy to criticize the Obama administration, isn’t it? Look at the unemployment rate, for example. And have you seen the tax hikes they’re going to need to pay for healthcare reform? Oh yeah, and they did a great job with Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab didn’t they?-his dad told us he was going rogue, and then when…
1. I didn’t turn 50 Rinse and repeat that blessing for two more years! 2. Healthcare reform has provided plenty to blog about for the whole year! Rinse and repeat for . . . ? 🙁 3. Neither of my children are adolescents . . . yet! 4. Two…
Is a test that costs $800,000 to add one year of life worthwhile? In one survey, most physicians said yes-evidence that controlling costs will require overcoming very powerful, and irrational, psychological forces. Imagine for a moment that you are in charge of the U.S. health care system, and must decide whether to pay for a…
Would you rather experience a bad situation forever or for just six months? Any sane person would choose the temporary situation. And yet, according to a study I published this week, if you chose the temporary situation, you’d be more likely to suffer over the next six months-so focused on the hope that your situation…