Posts Tagged ‘ health insurance ’

No Such Thing as a Free Lunch—or Free Healthcare

2010-10-14
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If you are covered by a typical health insurance plan which requires you to pay part of the cost of each doctor visit, Congress has not saved you money by passing healthcare reform. Instead, it has mandated that you spend more than you might choose to spend on so-called "preventative" healthcare.

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Divorcing Quebec: A Cautionary Tale

2010-10-06
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Divorcing Quebec: A Cautionary Tale

In many respects, the U.S. appears to be heading toward the same terminus ad quem as Quebec — California is just about there. The distressing sense that a national fracture may be looming, a premonition of possible break-up, is common to both polities.

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Minority Women, Hormone Replacement Therapy & Breast Cancer; Does Health Insurance Improve Health?

MINORITY WOMEN, BREAST CANCER & HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY In 2002, the landmark Women’s Health Initiative Study reported that the long-term use of hormone replacement medications, consisting of two female hormones in pill form, was associated with a 26% increase in the relative risk of breast cancer (among other serious diseases as well, I might...

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