When we moved to Rhode Island, we chose the location to be near high end healthcare. In addition to being only an hour from Boston, we were close to clinicians affiliated with Brown University, the local Ivy League university. But that affiliation is no guarantee against quacks: “A population-based retrospective study from South Korea is […]
The other person, I follow on healthcare and the ACA. He lives in Michigan like I did before we moved to the desert. Kind of miss the Green. “Dear Democrats: I’m the guy who’s moving heaven & earth to get the tax credits extended, and I’m telling you not to cave for a short-term fix.” […]
Information on what happens if the Senate caves. A post from xpostfactoid (one of my go-to guys for information). Before his words is an example of the difference in cost for healthcare plans Before and after costs as taken out of the comments section: Silver: Was: $607 per month ($7,281 per year) in premiums (which […]
More information on the Tylenol issue as created by our President’s claims of Tylenol being dangerous to the developing fetus. It is bad enough he will increase the deficit, cut ACA healthcare subsidies to millions, reduce Medicaid, and threatens those on Medicare. Now he is claiming Tylenol can cause harm to a fetus thereby spreading […]
Some History: Angry Bear was well ahead of the issues with groceries and pricing. We did post several articles discussing the issues. One in particular article did discuss the Kroger-Albertsons partnership. The merger of Kroger and Albertsons announced a planned merger that would create a single entity controlling ~22 percent of the US grocery market. This […]
With the passage of The One Big Beautiful Bill by Republicans comes a series of problems for hospitals in the United States. Included in the hospital having issues are rural and inner-city hospitals. Many of these hospitals are caring for people with no or insufficient healthcare insurance. While Medicaid does assist many people, it does […]
Rural hospitals and clinics have always been operating on the edge. Small hospitals, rural hospitals and clinics have always had issues in providing healthcare to those citizens utilizing them. Many of the lower income citizens in rural areas and city areas lack healthcare insurance due to cost. Overhead for having the equipment (X-Ray, ERs, specialists, […]
Kareem talks Robert Kennedy Jr. and his ramblings as the Secretary of Health. It is pretty obvious in front of Congress he is not up to the job. Neither is he capable to direct the citizens of the United States. Over the last few years, it was pretty easy to get a Covid vaccination. Just […]
From a pediatrician colleague: “. . . the study which is being used by certain parties to prove that “Taking Tylenol during pregnancy causes autism” does not actually say that. It says that there seems to be a slight increase in rates of autism among children whose mothers took Tylenol during pregnancy, BUT the lead […]
RFK Jr and Trump have announced that the “cause” of autism is mothers who took acetaminophen during pregnancy. Not only are there no data supporting this, but chronology falsifies this theory. Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler provided one of the earliest documented descriptions of autism-like behavior in 1911. He used the term “autistic” to describe some […]