New Orleans This should be the least surprising news since you learned that sugar tastes good, but now there is actually statistical proof from a drug-trial-like study that when the poor have health insurance by damn their health improves! I’m not sure having hard proof will change any minds or votes among lawmakers but at …
Category: Health Care
New Study: Poverty Kills!
New Orleans This is a big deal. Dr. Sandro Galea, head of epidemiology at the prestigious Columbia University School of Public Health, and a team, published a paper calculating the deaths in the United States that derive directly from social factors. They looked at six specifics: low education, racial segregation, low social support, individual-level …
Let’s Really Investigate the Doctor Business
New Orleans A bi-partisan group of US Senators, led by Orin Hatch (R-UT) has asked for an investigation of physician-owned-distributorships (POD) and the lack of safeguards preventing docs from unnecessary surgeries utilizing devices that enrich them because they are distributors for manufacturers. A study Hatch released indicated these PODs are legal in 20 states now …