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Medicare for All: Yes We Can by Holly Sklar - Common Dreams More Americans die of lack of health insurance than terrorism, homicide, drunk driving and HIV combined. Grandma could be dead from lack of health insurance before she turns 65 and gets Medicare - 80 percent of first-time grandparents are in their 40s and 50s. America is the only country that rations the right to health care to those 65 and older. Lack of health insurance kills 45,000 American adults a year, according to a nWashington PostTRYING TO STAY INDEPENDENT: Chuck Stein, left, and Thelma Spencer each have medical conditions that require assistance at home. They both are struggling to remain independent and away from nursing homes.By Brigid Schulte Sunday, Sep 27, 2009Chuck at 115 Linden Hall Lane worries about losing the monthly $9,000 infusions of a drug that keeps his lungs from collapsing. Martha, who lives at 113 and is expecting her second child, has had trouble finding a midwife. Thelma, residing at 1

by Eddie Miller There was a time when employers offered health insurance to their employees as a benefit. Times of recession have meant change and now it is unsurprising to hear that such benefits are becoming less and less common. This article looks at a viable type of health insurance for employed people. One term you will hear all the time is HMO. This stands for ‘Health Maintenance Organization. HMOs oversee health coverage, guidelines and standards for doctors in hospitals. Since elec

On September 14th, Children’s Hospital of Boston made a joint announcement with eClinicalWorks whereby ambulatory practices affiliated with Children’s using eCW will be able to export patient data into “MyChildren.” MyChildren is the personal health platform that Children’s Hospital provides for its customers and is based on Indivo , the open source PHP that was developed at Children’s and is the foundation for Dossia.  On Friday, Sept 18th, Chilmark Research had the opportunity t

I received word Thursday night that Jim Long, a former newspaper colleague, has died. He was only 46.He died at 6:02 p.m. at Kaiser Hospital in Fontana, according to his wife, Judith Pfeffer.He had been in failing health for the past two years. He suffered a stroke in October of 2007, worked hard in an attempt to regain his mobility and return to work , suffered another stroke in June of 2008 and was diagnosed with testicular cancer in JA 22-year-old woman from Oxford, Ohio, died from swine flu on Wednesday. Kimberly Young graduated from Miami University in December and continued to live in Oxford, Ohio, within Minority Leader John Boehner’s congressional distrct. Reports now indicate that after initially getting sick, Young put off treatment because she was uninsured : Young became ill about two weeks ago, but didn’t seek care initially because she didn’t have health insurance and was worried about the cost , according to

Millions of Uninsured Americans Need Healthcare Reform ATLANTA, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Following is an op-ed by Dr. Henrie M. Treadwell, director of Community Voices: The uproar at this summer’s raucous town hall meetings, Rep. Joe Wilson’s outburst in Congress and the endless debate over whether some opposition to healthcare reform is racially-tinged are a major disservice to the millions of Americans who need healthcare reform. Rep. Wilson doesn’t worry about costs if a membeStories with Jewish genealogy connections appear around the world, including India. Hamburg's Ballinstadt museum is the focus of this story at Hindu-.com by Gunvanthi Balaram who visited the site; there are also photos. The museum was set up in mid-2007 by the Stiftung Hamburg Maritim , a foundation dedicated to preserving Hamburg’s rich maritime heritage, at a cost of 12 million euros. Two-thirds were public funds and private sponsors provided one-third, such as the Hapag-Lloyd shipping coEleven hospitals in California have each been slapped with $25,000 fines and other penalties for medical mistakes and violations of state guidelines that resulted in patient deaths and injuries.The Los Angeles Times reports that the hospitals are located throughout the state, but most are in Southern California. Most of the medical mistakes occurred in 2008. The fines and other administrative penalties were announced today by the state Department of Public Health.Medical mistakes aGet ready for Detroit-style labor relations in our hospitals. In the heated debates on health-care reform, not enough attention is being paid to the huge financial windfalls ObamaCare will dole out to unions — or to the provisions in the various bills in Congress that will help bring about the forced unionization of the health-care industry . Is this America when you are forced in an industry that does not have unionization and those working in those industries don’t want it.  Dofrom Sheri Fink, ProPublica, September 23, 2009 With scant public input, state and federal officials are pushing ahead with plans that -- during a severe flu outbreak -- would deny use of scarce ventilators by some patients to assure they would be available for patients judged to benefit the most from them. The plans have been drawn up to give doctors specific guidelines for extreme circumstances, and they include procedures under which patients who weren’t improving would

About.com Template: Blogging and Social Media Policy About.com Template: Internet and Email Policy American Red Cross Social Media Handbook for Local Red Cross Units American Red Cross Online Communications Guidelines Associated Press Social Media Policy Australian Public Service Commission Interim Protocols for Online Media Participation BBC Editorial Guidelines, personal use of Social Networking BBC Use of Social NetworkFrom Bill Lindelof: A woman who was severely injured when her pickup collided with a garbage truck on Bradshaw Road this morning failed to heed a stop sign and rolled into the path of the oncoming vehicle, authorities say. California Highway Patrol officers said witnesses told them a woman did not stop when approaching Bradshaw Road from Aldercreek Way at 6:05 a.m. The 51-year-old woman from south Sacramento, who has not been identified, was eastbound on Aldercreek Way, when she failed photo credit: Paul Schreiber W ith all the recent talk about health care policy reform, it’s no surprise that many Americans feel the strain that their health insurance premiums put on their  wallets.  Many families struggle month to month trying to cover the costs of skyrocketing health insurance that many choose to roll the dice and have no insurance coverage.  Studies show that approximately 18 percent of the U.S. population under the age of 65, simply have The ongoing debate over medical care reform calls for a re-examination of the economic advantages and disadvantages of Medicare and Medicaid. Between these two programs, our federal and state governments currently assist particular segments of the population with certain aspects of their medical needs. Medicare is a Title XVII federal program that provides hospitalization insurance, voluntary supplemental medical insurance, and prescription drug benefits to people over age 65, and to disabled in

Our ability to constrain American health spending may lie in the answer to one basic -- and increasingly contentious question -- whether patients with the same condition basically get the same care whether they are treated by doctors and hospitals in Manhattan or Minneapolis. If they do, we've got a serious problem and will have to drastically ratchet back our anticipated savings from estimated efficiencies. If they don't -- a position embraced by President Obama and those around him -- sThis 2009 Kaiser Permanente San Francisco International Dragon Boat Festival, taking place Sept. 26 and 27 at Treasure Island, features a wide array of entertainment. Here is a look at this year’s performers. For more about the festival, visit sfdragonboat.com/ Chen Tai Chi The Traditional Chen Family Taijiquan class has been taught at San Francisco Chinese Culture Center for many years by instructor Debbie Au.  They meet Tuesday and Thursday evenings at the Center. Chung Ngai Dance Tr

Evilution DVD Release Company: Music Video Distribution Language: English Length: 91 Minutes Image: Color Year: 2008 Rated: R Release Date: November 17, 2009 “Kids and their damn horror movies!” — Mrs. Harris MOVIE REVIEW It only takes one die hard horror fan to see how a movie can rip off three genre classics and become enraged by it, sending contagious fury throughout the ma

Wireless medical devices need to consider hospital’s WLAN: Medical Connectivity’s Brian McAlpine shares his thoughts on the Medical Device Connectivity event in Cambridge last week in a post over at MC, which conclude with an assessment of wireless integration into medical devices done right: “Dealing with the identification of wireless device data from mobile and transient medical devices brings a whole new set of challenges – and this is both a technical problem as well as a clinical workflow