Category Archive for: ‘Healthcare’

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  You Need To Know: C-Sections, Hospitals And Your Insurance Company

  Here’s the oxymoron of the day. If hospitals start telling obstetricians stop doing C-sections (or try to reduce them), that’s problematic for hospitals because they make money off them.  So they are less likely to engage in C-sections because many hospitals are struggling to stay [...]

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  Discussion: “If you smoke or are overweight, then you cost me money and I cannot hire you.”-Fair Or Not?

  With Obama’s recent visit to the Cleveland clinic, who will cease hiring smokers as of September 1, the Today Show is speculating that this may become a corporate health care trend. Here’s the message from Dr Delos Cosgrove, CEO and President at the Cleveland Clinic: [...]

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• Six Affordable Health Care Options for Singles

  Guest Post By: Single Edition, Divine Caroline.com If you’re single and uninsured, the specter of a health crisis takes on an added dimension of anxiety. Not only might your very life be in danger, but your livelihood as well. And unless you have wealthy parents, siblings, [...]

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  Senior Healthcare Options: Navigating The Murky Mess That Is The US Healthcare System

  photo credit: Hamed Saber It never occurred to me that the health care system for seniors in this country was so dire until my FIL became ill. To have every door closed to us because of a pre-existing condition, age and lack of continuing insurance [...]

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• Thoughts On Managing a Parent’s Illness and Possible Continuing Care Options

  photo credit: tempophage Over the last few days I’ve been forced to think about possible continuing care options given my father in law’s recent stroke and seizure over the weekend. We were not prepared to deal with a major illness in that it required care [...]

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