The News Review:
- Health Insurance’s New Wave And the Man Behind the Plans
- Well said with Dr. Dick Rose
- UEFA diary: November
- Walk the walk to New Year’s health
- Sporting News - Your expert source for MLB Baseball, NFL Football,…
- She aims, shoots, makes history
Health Insurance’s New Wave And the Man Behind the Plans
Washington Post - Dec 28, 2006
Im all for HSAs for this reason. The problem with overinsurance is that insurance companies practice medicine and that there are few limits to healthcare cost increases. This thing that Actuaries and Economists have always talked about, moral hazard, must be addressed. Im all for HSAs for this reason. The problem with overinsurance is that insurance companies practice medicine and that there are few limits to healthcare cost increases… And you wonder why people think there is bias in the mainstream media. By the way, my own HSA-linked insurance does provide enhanced benefits for preventive care, outside the deductible, same as my old insurance. And even if it didnt, I now have the motivation to look around and find the best package price for that colonoscopy or other health maintenance work. Writers like Christopher Lee are not concerned that HSAs will not work. Their worry is they WILL work.
Well said with Dr. Dick Rose
Knoxville News Sentinel - Knoxville News Sentinel (subscription) - Dec 28, 2006
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Thursday, December 28, 2006
Family practitioner Dick Rose, M. , has practiced medicine inKnoxville since 1982. A native of Columbus, Ohio, Rose holds a medicaldegree from Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, where hecompleted his internship, residency and a fellowship in infectiousdisease. Before coming to Knoxville, he spent two years as an officerin the Epidemic Intelligence Service of what is now the Centers forDisease Control and Prevention… The progress in HIV disease, hypertension and diabetes areall examples. What is going to be the biggest challenge to physicians?The aging of the population is already causing challenges. We are going to need more primary-care physicians, but the currentscheme for paying physicians (is) based on an understanding of medicalcare that is hundreds of years old and doesn’t take into account thenature of chronic diseases like diabetes and hypertension or the needfor preventive care, such as the management of high cholesterol. (That)has resulted in a system that highly rewards surgical and other”invasive” specialists and penalizes physicians like internists, familypractitioners and pediatricians, who spend their time talking with andthinking about patients and managing chronic conditions over months andyears. As a result, the number of U. medical-school graduates going intoprimary care has dropped precipitously in the past five years.
UEFA diary: November
UEFA.com - Dec 28, 2006
“And in doing so they place their bodies under excessive physical strain. As the demands on top level players intensify, greater importance is placed on appropriate and specific medical support. It is this increase in importance and the constantly changing nature of sports medicine that makes a football specific medical symposium necessary. “30 NovemberConcerted co-operation between UEFA and the European political authorities, and the protection of sport’s specific nature in future EU legislation, are called for at the fourth UEFA Seminar on European Union Affairs in Brussels. “We are entering a crucial phase for European football,” says UEFA vice-president Per Ravn Omdal. “The political challenges facing UEFA and its national associations have never been so urgent. Never before has our co-operation been so necessary.
Walk the walk to New Year’s health
Georgia Straight - Dec 28, 2006
When it comes to achieving better health, a few new books might give you the push you need. Arizona-based health guru Andrew Weil has just published an updated version of 1997’s 8 Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body’s Natural Healing Power (Random House, $28). The big-bearded doctor, who teaches medicine and also heads the University of Arizona’s integrative-medicine program, is a firm believer in natural remedies as well as the mind-body connection. Optimum health, he writes, is more than being free of disease; it’s also possessing a sense of strength and joy. He says that eight weeks is the minimum amount of time it takes for someone not only to initiate a lifestyle change but also to practise new habits and have them become fixed. “You may go on the Eight-Week Program for any of a number of good reasons—to feel better, to get more energy, to lose weight, for instance—but its ultimate purpose is to reduce your risks of premature illness and death by enhancing the performance of your body’s healing system,” Weil writes. I’ve always been a little skeptical of Weil, given his celebrity and wealth—and the fact that he has developed his own line of supplements, which he plugs in the book.
Sporting News - Your expert source for MLB Baseball, NFL Football,…
SportingNews.com - Dec 28, 2006
Someone is writing him songs and poems. Someone is e-mailing him. The Penn school of veterinary medicine — where Barbaro has been recovering since surgery on May 21 — devoted a message board where his fans could be quarantined, er, where they could congregate. Before the message board was shut down for the holidays on Dec. 22, it logged more than 100 get-well wishes in its final six hours. Some excerpts, and this is not a joke:
Merry Christmas You Handsome Devil!! What a boy! We saw you on TV and you looked more handsome than ever… She was charged with bestiality, with being “engaged in an indecent act with a horse. ” The (allegedly) molested horse wasn’t Barbaro, but maybe he should be fitted with a chastity belt before someone takes advantage of his good nature. Back in these United States, a quick message board search found one concerned woman who asked Barbaro the following question:
Sweet Barbaro: I just read that when you move to a “sunnier” location, it will not be made public.
She aims, shoots, makes history
StateHornet.com - Dec 28, 2006
substring(0, thispageresult. ” But despite her maternal nature, Matthews is not someone to mess with: She can shoot a target up to 75 feet away with stunning precision, a skill that earned her Sacramento State’s 2006 Top Gun Sharpshooter Award. Matthews’ win catapulted her from a two-year veteran of the Sac State police force to a history-making campus icon. She is the first female officer to ever receive the award, an accomplishment which Matthews said “feels so good. “I’m proud of myself,” Matthews added. “It’s something so positive… There were certainly moments in her life when Matthews never imagined hearing such good news. After moving to California from her native Mexico in 1989, she and her husband divorced, and she was suddenly faced with raising her children as a single mother. Although she previously practiced medicine as a general practitioner in Mexico, her credentials weren’t accepted in America. “Everything started falling apart,” Matthews said. “I had to take care of my kids and provide everything. ” She began looking for immediate job opportunities with benefits and good pay, as well as a career that she could enjoy. But most importantly, Matthews said, she wanted to be a role model for her children.
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