I carefully compare prices when i shop. Even for apples. Unfortunately, it didn’t even occur to me to do just that for laboratory tests. I figured covered place is covered place. Not so! What happened?
My bout of a worsening of my hypothyroidism might not have anything to do with my thyroid falling apart more. I had been on a mission to figure out what had triggered this bout – after having been stable for …
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I sent the following to my Congresspeople, all of them Democrats: I recently signed the Credo call to Democrats to fight for Medicare for All. I want to let you know why i believe that it is time to fight …
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I think it was George Lakoff who suggested that the “health care” debate would have gone differently if we had called the system sickness profiteering. It describes this system better, he argued, because there’s neither health nor care in it. …
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As i’ve mentioned before, having to buy health care (if we can call it that!) on the open market (if we can call it that!) is rather scary. Now, with Republicans bend on taking what little reform we’ve achieved back, …
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The absolutely scariest thing of taking the plunge is losing health insurance through work. Although that coverage wasn’t terrific – I am still paying for a minor accident – at least it felt like I didn’t have to worry too …
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