Medicare

Dirty Hospitals, Deadly Consequences

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HospitalGermsCameron Salisbury – It looked like a crime scene.

As I walked down the hospital corridor to visit an ailing friend, I was struck by the number of rooms with closed doors covered in yellow ‘caution – keep out’ tape. These were rooms housing a patient with a deadly and highly contagious hospital-acquired infection, like MRSA (Methicillin Resistant Staphlococcus Aureous) or C Diff (C Difficile). Both are caused by easily corrected hospital practices that endanger patients, including a lack of hand washing, contaminated instruments, and unsanitary procedures.

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Does Medicare Pay If You Are in a Car Accident?

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MedicareInsurance can seem complicated, and if you’re trying to figure out what is best for you, you might feel overwhelmed. It’s important to consider what will and won’t be covered by every insurance, and this is especially true when you are considering Medicare.

For many people, Medicare is the best option, but you need to examine the details ahead of time. This is because there are so many things to think about, such as whether the Mutual of Omaha Medicare Supplement plan is an option that will comfortably cover your needs or not. As there are so many options out there when it comes to Medicare, your decision shouldn’t be rushed.

Does Medicare pay if you are in a car accident?

Many services are covered by Medicare. If you find yourself in a car accident and in need of California auto accident lawyers, you can rest assured knowing you will not need to also cover any expensive medical bills. Medicare will cover your hospital bills and any needed follow-up services. Continue reading →

How Health Care Works in America, and Why It’s So Bad

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Keith Jackson, MD – We all know in our hearts that a well functioning society should reward intelligence and hard work.  This runs counter to the thinking of those who consider this concept aggressively hurtful to the stupid and lazy, but it is something we know should be true. Merit should matter.  Similarly, we know that well functioning medical care should reward good care of the sick and the intelligent pursuit of seeking even better outcomes.  Many things are working against merit-based reward in health care, however.

Capitalistic principles should help reward the best medical practitioners.  After all, in the archetypical example, if you make the best basket, I’m more likely to part with my best pelt in trade.  Merit is rewarded most reasonably with the capitalistic model.  If the doctor is known to provide the best care, he will be the most financially successful. Continue reading →

Big Pharma Made $711 Bln Overcharging Seniors And Disabled

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End The Lie April 10 2013

big pharmaThe 11 largest drug companies have made $711 billion in profits in just a decade, largely due to overcharging Medicare, which does not seek out competitive prices and uses taxpayer funds to support Big Pharma.

Since Medicare is prohibited from purchasing drugs based on their cost, its prescription drug program has been making large payouts to drug companies that have overcharged the program for years, according to an analysis by Health Care for America Now (HCAN).

“There is nothing wrong with a company making profits – that’s what their supposed to do. But the drug industry’s profits are excessive as a result of overcharging American consumers and taxpayers,” writes Ethan Rome, executive director of HCAN, for the Huffington Post. “We pay significantly more than any other country for the exact same drugs.”

Rome notes that per capita drug spending in the US is 40 percent higher than in Canada, 75 percent greater than in Japan, and nearly 300 percent greater than Denmark.

The 11 largest global prescription drug companies have skyrocketed since the Medicare Part D prescription drug program was launched in 2006. The government health program enables seniors and the disabled to buy taxpayer-subsidized coverage for many of the most widely disseminated medicines. But Medicare is prohibited from negotiating prices with pharmaceutical companies or seeking out more cost-effective drugs, thereby costing seniors, the disabled and American taxpayers billions of dollars more than some argue the drugs are worth.

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Obamacare Is A Killing Machine And Millions Will Die

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Govt Slaves February 21 2013

This week I gasped in horror when I learned that Obama care had ordered Medicare to cut reimbursement for 4 million diabetic seniors by 66%. It also reduced all the companies that were supplying blood sugar monitoring supplies from 1000 to 15. I also learned via the research of Elizabeth Vliet M.D. that one of her 80 year old patients was told he was not covered anymore by Medicare when he went to the pharmacy so couldn’t get his medication. His choice was to pay cash or die.

Pause for a second and snap out of being mildly annoyed and grow a backbone and a few fangs over this. Just with Diabetic and Heart patients alone you are talking many millions of people, mostly seniors with coverage simply cut off or largely cut back — setting them up to die. That is unless they are millionaires and can afford expensive medication out of pocket. This is called as in the days of Nazi Germany, targeting a group of people for extermination and murdering them.

Millions will suffer and many will die just representing the pull back of coverage with Diabetic and Heart disease patients. Think about all the other diseases and seniors represented with dramatic or total cut backs by Medicare. Just as in Britain’s socialized medicine now, state-of-the-art drugs will be denied for all kinds of common cancer, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and others.

Obama care is nothing more than a padded door to the ovens for the most needy and for our seniors. Obama plays all kinds of games and has lied from the very beginning about this health care assault weapon. He said over and over that people would still have freedom to choose their doctor – that health care freedom and options would continue and there was no such thing as death panels. Liar – liar and liar! IPAB – Independent Payment Advisory Board is nothing but UN elected bureaucrats Obama has put in place to control all health care and order all cuts and limits on people and groups. As with the IRS, the IPAB is Obama’s SS and true Death squad.

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