In 2020, I enrolled in the Moderna clinical trial of their mRNA vaccine. I got the first jab in August 2020, and it turns out I was in the vaccine arm of the trial, not the placebo arm. I’ve now had seven vaccinations, as the vaccine has been updated. I contracted COVID once. Of course, […]
My parents retired to rural upstate NY, where they lived happily for 20 years. But naturally, as they aged, their health declined. At one point, my mom had a pulmonary embolism, and landed in a community hospital in Bennington VT, about 30 miles away. She got the care she needed, but when she was later […]
I have two dental implants, the first of which was done nearly ten years ago. They were both done after a tooth broke and the dentist told me he couldn’t save the tooth. I could have just left the hole, but elected to fill it with an implant, which was done in each case by […]
I’m reading every now and then about the future of robot assisted medicine. Robots have long replaced humans in routine, repetitive tasks like auto assembly, but surgery seems like a bespoke activity beyond the reach of robots. Not so. A few years ago, I had mesh hernia repair surgery. The procedure was robotic-assisted laparoscopy. There […]
Or is it even a decision the United States should be making for a woman? People keep popping up on AB threads talking about such when it is not a topic of the thread. Rules; Polite discussions or faced being trashed or tossed in spam. Be on topic. I will take down the post if […]
r.j. sigmund on Covid US Covid metrics were again down sharply, but the CDC said it now expects to see a winter Covid peak higher than the summer peak, similar to Covid trends over the past 4 years. so we have that to look forward to. Among the CDC’s “early indicators” “test positivity”, or the percentage of […]
When I was growing up, fluoridation of water was regarded as a commie plot by the John Birch Society wingnuts. Nevertheless, hundreds of millions of Americans (including my wife and I) have lived with fluoridated water without evidence of harm. I see where RFK, Jr is predicting that the second Trump Administration will recommend against […]
It has been a while since I have posted a Charles Gaba commentary from ACA Signups. Charles is the person to read on the ACA and also governmental healthcare programs impacting and beyond the ACA. Biden-Harris Admin proposes new rule dramatically expanding coverage of birth control, ACA Signups Currently, the Affordable Care Act’s preventative services […]
Behind this commentary: With Medicare’s specific approval, a health insurance company can enroll a member of its marketplace or other commercial plan into its Medicare Advantage coverage when that individual becomes eligible for Medicare. Called “seamless conversion,” the process requires the insurer to send a letter explaining the new coverage, which takes effect unless the member […]
Republicans have long objected to the ACA, and Trump tried several times to have it overturned; he’s claimed he’ll replace it with something better, but in eight years, he’s never come up with even a rudiment of a proposal. And here’s Speaker Johnson at a campaign stop yesterday: “No Obamacare?” an attendee asked Johnson, referring […]