Category: The Medical Services Industrial Complex

Occupational and Physical Therapists: What Do they Do and Which is Which?

Baby boomers with elder parents rejoice! I am pulling elder parent duty this week, with lots of time on my hands (here and there anyway), and can answer some simple questions that will come up the first time you ever find yourself in a similar position. *  *  * After […]

Our Healthcare System is Full of Traps for the Unwary, and Needn’t Be: Medicare Observation Status

If you should ever find yourself thinking that you know everything there is to know about a given part of our healthcare system, please, think again. Think again because, at that very point in time, just when you least expect it and are at your most ultra-hubristic max, you just […]

Our Healthcare System is a Battlefield, and Needn’t Be: Dying from Cancer in the U.S. vs. Dying from Cancer in France

Making the blogosphere rounds this past week was a very interesting article by Anya Schiffrin. The article compares what it’s like having stage 4 pancreatic cancer in the U.S. healthcare system vs. what it’s like having stage 4 pancreatic cancer in the French healthcare system (for those who always have […]

Job Lock: It’s Real, and Obamacare Reduces It a Lot

How many people do you know who truly love their work? My hunch is that your answer to that question is, at most, something in the neighborhood of “oh, maybe a few.” And of those few, how many do you think would continue in their work if they had some […]

Free Money: How the Free Money of Medicaid Expansion is Better than the Free Money of a 401k Match

Never turn down free money, you hear people sometimes say, right? And if free money were a more common thing, why, then you’d hear it said a whole lot more, but it ain’t (because, you know, TANSTAAFL and if-it-looks-too-good-to-be-true and such) so you don’t. But free money does in fact […]

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