Recent articles I have been reading suggest Medicare Advantage provides healthcare at a lesser cost than Traditional Medicare. Or maybe it would be better to qualify this as individuals claim MA plans do so? I do not know whether such takes into consideration the cost of a Supplemental Plan or not and also Part D […]
This week’s Covid coverage includes the most common variants … currently circulating – by r. j. Sigmund Briefly, since the CDC’s Covid demographic metrics continue to recede, albeit slowly. Among the “early indicators” “test positivity”, or the percentage of tests for Covid that were positive, fell to 4.8% during the week ending November 2nd, down […]
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 […]