tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36104068018164455742010-06-24T01:57:59.251-07:00Healthprivatehealthprivatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09093158840770415100noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3610406801816445574.post-55541371444829399012009-04-24T00:52:00.000-07:002009-04-24T00:53:58.314-07:00CAN PUBLIC HEALTH INSURANCE FIX HEALTH CARE?Years ago, a woman was wheeled into my E.R. in critical condition. She was comatose, and her blood pressure was sky high. I didn’t need a CAT scan to know what was wrong. A vessel deep in her brain had burst, filling her head with blood. She never had a chance.When I broke the news to her sisters, I learned that she had stopped taking her blood pressure medicine several days before. Why? Althoughhealthprivatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09093158840770415100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3610406801816445574.post-16773358225706839172009-04-10T01:21:00.000-07:002009-04-10T01:23:40.233-07:00Why private health insurance is still popularDuring times of economic turmoil, insurance policies are usually among the first cost-cutting casualties. Unfortunately, the true value of any policy is often not revealed until it is needed, whereas the regular cost of premiums is likely to stretch an already tight budget.Research from Sainsbury's Finance reveals half a million Brits have cut back on home contents cover in the past 12 months, healthprivatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09093158840770415100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3610406801816445574.post-82466835333870834802009-03-24T16:09:00.001-07:002009-04-03T05:47:18.695-07:00Personal Private Medical Insurance Launched By NPA InsuranceNPA Insurance is launching Private Medical Insurance designed for pharmacists and their families. The NPA's medical insurance offers comprehensive benefits such as out-patient, inpatient and day-treatment. Complementary therapies and medicines are also included as standard along with helpful advice lines and a claims service with experienced and friendly staff. Key benefits - A comprehensive healthprivatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09093158840770415100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3610406801816445574.post-9767993814271190462009-04-03T02:19:00.000-07:002009-04-03T02:23:43.042-07:0037% of Californians without health insurance at some point, study findsThe health advocacy group Families USA says about 12.1 million residents were uninsured for at least one month -many for at least six months - during 2007 and 2008.More than one out of three California residents went without health insurance for at least some point in the last two years, according to a health advocacy group’s analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data.About 12.1 million Californians, orhealthprivatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09093158840770415100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3610406801816445574.post-35554829358130373882009-03-26T05:37:00.001-07:002009-03-26T05:37:42.919-07:00Economic recovery requires affordable health care systemHawaii's successful system for providing health care at relatively inexpensive rates has been replicated in many states and may be a partial model for nationwide health care reform. The rise in the number of workers laid off from jobs that included health insurance shows the need to extend employer-based insurance to universal coverage. Hawaii became the first state to require minimum mandatory healthprivatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09093158840770415100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3610406801816445574.post-31265271318059651672009-03-24T16:04:00.001-07:002009-03-24T16:04:54.346-07:00Healthy San Francisco Costs Less Than Private Health Insurance, Report ShowsAustralians should be able to choose either private health cover or Medicare to ensure a more efficient and fair system and help reduce public waiting lists, a health care economist from The Australian National University has proposed. Dr Francesco Paolucci - a Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health (ACERH) at ANU - says the current public/private mix in health healthprivatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09093158840770415100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3610406801816445574.post-54328026126057734412009-03-24T16:01:00.001-07:002009-03-24T16:01:43.706-07:00Comparing Public And Private Health Insurance: Would A Single-Payer System Save Enough To Cover The Uninsured?The Manhattan Institute released a new report by senior fellow Benjamin Zycher, entitled "Comparing Public and Private Health Insurance: Would a Single-Payer System Save Enough to Cover the Uninsured?" In it, Zycher dispels a common misconception regarding single-payer health insurance. Among the attractions of a government-provided health-care system has been the possibility that it might healthprivatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09093158840770415100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3610406801816445574.post-60081780408826466862009-03-24T15:31:00.001-07:002009-03-24T15:35:25.356-07:00Ginkgo Biloba Ginkgo Biloba leaf has been used as food and medicine for over 4,000 years. The ancient Chinese and Japanese also ate roasted ginkgo seeds as a digestive aid and to prevent drunkenness. Ginkgo was associated with long life by the Indian ayurvedic healers who reportedly used it as an ingredient in soma, a longevity elixir. The Ginkgo tree from which ginkgo biloba is derived is considered healthprivatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09093158840770415100noreply@blogger.com0