Free Health Care Not Free

Heath Care Costs Money, Always Has And Always Will.

Of course it does. Anything worth having is worth paying for. Anything you get for free you are apt to abuse. It is just human nature. I do not for the life of me understand when someone refers to health care in this way. " I get free health care" How do you figure that can be possible. Many times I hear the Canadian Health Care System as being free. Some times even the Canadians make the mistake of calling it free.  More often than not they hesitate and then say. "Well it isn't really free". Of course it is not free.  You may think it is free to you.  If you do not work. Well think again.You pay in some way. Perhaps you pay in a way that is not apparent to you. Like higher prices at the store. Or increased mass transit fares. Some way you pay. Well that's ok I mean everyone should pay their fair share. Perhaps though when it is over used and abused. The extra cost could be used in some way to help you with another need.  So get set America for abuse and waste. Oh yes they do have a cure for that. It is called rules and regulations. The more it is abused the more it is regulated. Not in favor of more care but of less. It is simple arithmetic. I know I do not have to go into detail.  So now that we have Obama Care what do you think could quite possibly result. More care or less care?  

Hospital Strikes Not Good For Your Health

Is this what you want while you are laying in the hospital

 Health Care Unions Not So Good For Patients


While sitting in a local pizzeria one day I came across a couple who came in for a bite to eat. I continued to eat what ever it was I was having. The owner started up a conversation with the gentleman and his wife.  before you know it it got to the point that the owner asked what the man did for a living. The man answered that he was no from the local area and indeed he was from out of state. I can't recall what state he was from but was definitely from the north east.  He explained that he was on an assignment and semi vacation.  He was a union organizer sent to organize health workers. I could not hold off a remark which was stuck between my bite of pizza and my trachea. I didn't want to aspirate so I exclaimed, " oh that's not good ".  His wife ready for a confrontation replied. "Why not "?  "I belong to the union and it has been very good for me".

Her answer showed why organizing health workers would not be good. The operative word here is, me.  I listened  as she continued to list and enumerate the benefits afforded to her by belonging to a union. She was an RN.  She was a good talker and adamant as to the good things the union has provided for her and the membership.  The gentleman whom I presumed earlier to be her husband was kind of reserved and did not say much.  It was then I realized that they in fact were a team.  She continued and I wanted to hear what she had to say.  I heard words like I, we, our, us.  Finally the conversation which was one sided at best came to a conclusion. It was then that I asked,  " tell me how does union membership help the profession and most of all the patient." At that point there was silence. The question was never answered.

Medical Field for a Great Future

Medical Field Is A Great Future


Looking for a job? The best place to go is the medical field. There are schools abound for technical skills used in today's health care field.  Doctors can't and won't do everything. The Obama care legislation is forcing the implementation of more and more auxiliary help. Diagnostic tools that require more individuals to administer those many tests.  Then there is nursing. Nurses are also needed for quality care . You can become an RN which you can earn with 2 years of schooling.  There are LPNs which is a licenced  practical nurse.  Nurses that are limited in their responsibilities and sphere of treatment and care. There are also Certified Nursing Assistants. Who assist nurses with the day to day of patients. In addition you can become a PCT or patient care technician. Duties are similar to those of a CDT except that they also have phlebotomy skills as well.  There are also x ray technicians, MRI technicians, respiratory therapists and others.

The medical field will not make you rich but the chances of you ever being out of work are slim. If you have any kind of interest in these fields the opportunities are endless. You can always go on to bigger and better positions with schooling that is readily available in most cities and towns. Obama care adds many more individuals to the patient rolls.  You will notice that more and more of the people you see are not doctors but patient care techs and nurse practitioners. It is a respected profession that gives you the opportunity to care for those needing care.  It is satisfying and rewarding. It gives you a chance to make a difference in someones life or a community. 

Good Medicine for Pain

Good Medicine 

Aleve is a great product for what hurts. My mother bowled on a sanctioned league. Until the age of 89. Her secret was one Aleve in the morning as soon as she got up. The next youngest bowler was 52 years old. Any and all discomfort she had that comes with the territory of that age was alleviated. In her life pain did not exist. She was the oldest bowler on record at the time in Albermarle,  V.A.  A distinction that she proudly pointed to holding a newspaper article that heralded her as such.  If that means anything to you then you have been let in on her secret.  I too have found it works for me as well. She would always say take Aleve, to anyone who complained about pain from arthritis to a headache.  Take Aleve and you will thank me for telling you. My mother passed away at the age of 94. The only reason for her not continuing at her career was that she took up a new sport.  Golf, she thought she might be able to meet Tiger Woods one day on the course.  I might add she passed away pain free.

Who Has Access to Medical Records .

Been To A Hospital Lately ?

I have and it is still the best place to be when you are sick. Surrounded by health care workers and professionals that can act on your behalf. That care for your every need while there. Yes it is a very safe and secure place to be. That is good and we are lucky that we have such a place to care for us. Especially at a time when you need others most.


You may be surprised to note that the R.N.s now sit at computers most of the time. It is most obvious to all that the pen is as important as a thermometer.. It has been for a long time. Records and charts must be kept to continue to give care that is based on good records. So that the treatment team can accurately diagnose and  treat based on documented history of the patient.  RNs now appear like order entry clerks putting in information and getting information. From a technological network that the staff has access to.

The question that remains. Do many others that do not have a right to know, have access to this information? Your health records may be helpful to you in the hospital and doctors office. But it can also become a two edged sword that can slice the other way. Will the accessibility to these records be injurious to you in other ways. Let's face it, the same way identity thieves steal your financial information. They can steal your most personal information.  Why would anyone want that information you may ask . I don't really know. It is just that as we all know, " knowledge is power ".  We will  just have to wait and see? Are the new Obama care mandates good for your individual right of privacy?  

The recent scandal involving the IRS has been shown it to be as corrupt as an agency as can be imagined.  Obama acolytes  targeting those that give the policies of the Obama administration a hard time.  Now the IRS will have the ability to get into records that have a direct connection to your health.  To boot, they will also have the ability to share information with other government agencies. Especially when it comes to monetary subsidies.  Or, in the case of deferments.  The IRS has shown in recent weeks they are not to be trusted when it comes to being independent of the administration and politics.

Your medical information can be used against you and will be.  It may affect your ability to get a job.  Or, to join a group or stigmatize you  in society. I don't think that is something anyone would want to worry about. Would you ?

There is Big Money In Dentistry

 So You Went To The Dentist

You went to the dentist and low and behold that pain that you were suffering with. You know, the pain that had you on your knees begging for mama. Well it turns out the cavity that you were neglecting. Has eaten through your enamel and has continued through the dentin and now has invaded the pulp. Where all those little nerve endings are and tiny blood vessels are. It is called the pulp chamber. The root of the tooth is now infected and all the gases that develop from the bacteria is creating pressure. That is making you want to cut off your own head.  I know you have tried an aspirin or two or four or more.  Or maybe another analgesic sold over the counter. Dental pain has been described as the most excruciating of all trauma.  It is truly amazing how a small area can give you so much discomfort. Well I have been there and I can sympathize with you.  It is truly a pain in,  "the what have you".  You will do anything to get rid of it.  Including cutting off your own head.

Before any thing is done you will have to subdue that " hot tooth". Which means that anti-biotics will be in the treatment plan and in order to nullify the pain you will go home with a prescription that will do just that. It usually takes a week and you return to the dentist. 

The dentist may send you to a specialist called an endodontist.  Or it may be done there. By your general dentist.  They will give you a choice, many are capable of doing it for you and will do a good job.  They will make that decision based upon what they see as mutual best interests.  It makes no sense to tackle something that will cause them problems later on. Litigation is runaway and it is a litigious society after all. "Blow ups" of the tooth are not good business.

Ok, so they inform you that a crown or commonly known as cap is necessary.  A porcelain to metal replacement is the preferred  and the best restoration in your particular case. So the little dental assistant enters and gives you some options. At one time a dental assistant was the gal that assisted the dentist.  In the past 15 years or so they have made a transition. They have been turned into a sales agent. They explain that your choices consist of a porcelain  bonded to non precious metal, porcelain bonded to semi precious alloy which contains some nobel metal. Last but not least and most expensive, porcelain to precious metal.  Meaning  in almost every case, gold.  As we all know the cost of gold has sky rocketed in recent years. So no doubt it will increase the cost of the restoration.

All things being equal a price will be quoted to you that reflects that. However the amount of increased cost will not be relative to the extra cost incurred by the dental office.  Laboratory fees will only reflect the cost of the metal used. It will be by weight and keeping in mind that the substructure or metal will be in all cases 3 tenths of a millimeter in thickness. The cost will increased by very little when the fee is billed for the construction by the dental laboratory.  You will however notice the cost in the increase to you is in the ball park of hundreds of dollars. Now every one has a right to make a living.  Also to  pass along the cost plus a bit more on product and material used in a process.  In other words the multiplier is way out of line with what is a reasonable profit margin because one or another materials is used. You will ask what the advantage might be versus one or the other.  They will answer and tell you.  Beleive it or not. There is only one true answer as to why the non precious metal is not "as good", as the other more expensive materials. There is a distinct and rare possiblity that you are allergic to the metal.  Hinting that perhaps you would not want to take a chance on that possibility.  Well you can know right away. Right in the dentist chair.  It is a simple matter of rubbing an exposed part of skin with the metal itself. If a reaction is observed it is a determind that the material is not for you.  Therefore you will have to go for the extra bucks.  As far as the other metal is concerned they leave it to your imagination.  Along with the proding of it being a precious metal so it must be better. Well in many cases it is not and is contra indicated. 

Now other than for the fact that you making a decision to get the more expensive metal. Which they make a hefty profit on. Considering the fact that the labor and administration costs to prepare and deliver the restoration is the same.  I have been told the little dental assistant who has no knowlege or training to recommend any restoration.  Gets a nice little cut or shall we say commission.  The most aggregious factor is that the metal should be prescribed according to what is applicable for the best results possible. In most cases the non precious alloy is the  more  appropriate material.  It gives better results for a longer period of time. 

Gastric By-Pass Surgery's Down Side

 By-Pass Surgery Pros and Cons

 Don't Let Pooping in Your Pants at The White House Happen To You

Everyone should check out the dangers of by-pass gastric surgery.  Al Roker former "fat bastard" of ABC's Today Show, tells how he pooped his pants in the White House. I don't think it something to be ashamed of.  No one noticed anyway. The poop is that the whole place smells like a barn now. Pooping is a great thing to do. The famous atheist Madalaine Murry Ohair. once said on the Johnny Carson show, the best thing in life is a good BM.  I don't think that applies to doing it in your pants. Al said when he asked if he could get some underwear the staff at the news briefing told him no one would notice. After all this place was full of poop.

Now that's living

Al points out in his book that there are consequences for finding quick fixes to your problems. Like eating as if you have two freaking ass holes. Al is a good guy that wants you all to know that pooping in your pants can be avoided with other means of weight control and weight loss. Like going on a diet, like everyone else does. Or trying a twelve step program like AA or NA.  It is necessary to understand that obesity is a problem that many in the U.S. have. It can be the result of OCD or just the fact that you don't know when to stop stuffing your pie hole. You should start your adventure of weight loss by not trying to eat the whole table after you have eaten everything on it.  Give someone else a chance and leave some for the dumpster divers. They have to eat too.

There is a lot of panic right now because it was announced that we are only able to use 30 percent of the corn we grow in America for food. The rest is used for fuel and exported.  Now they want to use sugar in the same way. The anxiety among the obese is palpable.

Oh lordy! However I do think that Michell should consider by-pass as a possibility in the future if she continues to eat fries after midnight and continues to keep ribs in her purse just in case. Last week I was told by an anonymous source that the first lady went to pull out her Blackberry and instead pulled out a Yankee Doodle packaged cake. Very unusual because she previously pulled out a Twinkie. Before they were closed down by the unions.

So if you don't want to poop in your pants at the White House do not get by-pass surgery. Poop may be accepted there. But you take your chances every where else.

Your Intimate Secrets Exposed

Semantics, Use of  Words to Mislead You Then Abuse You

              Brought to you by your friendly Government 

Ever look in the paper or on the Internet for a job. Now they classify everyone as a technician. If you wash and wax a floor you are a "floor technician". It's a joke. If you wash hair, you are a technician. Detail a car, you are a technician. Cut paper dolls all day. You are now  a technician. Pretty soon they will be calling strippers technicians. Or how about a prostitute. Will they soon be called a "flute technician".  Well I guess they are technicians. If they have a technique they are technicians. It is so bogus. What a crock of crap. Semantics is just as bad as a lie. Worse in fact. The biggest violators of truth are politicians and their snot nose staffs that think these misleading titles up. Like "The Affordable Care Act", you know Obama Care. You tell me what the hell is affordable about that act? It is going to cost us trillions. Mr. Obama does not give a hoot and a holler about you. Or how affordable health care is. It is just a gimmick to control 60 % of the American economy and extend big government until they are looking and probing right up your rectum. It does not stop there. After they get up your rectum real deep. I mean really up there good. Then they will probe around for a while to see if they missed anything. Then along will come the IRS. To make sure they didn't. Oh,  you can trust them to keep it secret. Yeah, and pigs fly and haven't you heard, the Pope is getting married.   

"This is Your Life"
After they do all that probing they will put that info into a computer data base and make it public. So that every thing you do will be based on your health. You don't think so. Well your job will know because when the companies rates go up because of your health issues. They will justify the increases by indicating that your heath expenses are the cause. Your hemorrhoids will be exposed to the world.  Got a STD 20 years ago. Hey, don't try to get a date with a girl in the office. You will be wasting your time. Oh your penis bends to the right or left like Clintons. No secret. Pretty soon the guys will skip the urinal next to you. After all you may piss on their shoe. HIPA the act that was supposed to keep your health care history private is in the trash. Forget it,your medical history will be a well read biography.  The government now has the most powerful tool that they can use. To mess you up big time.They now control everything you say or do by having information on you that can prevent you from getting a good job.  Running for office. Or anything else you may want to do they don't agree with. You are their slave...... So get those social security numbers inked into your forearm.  You wanted a tattoo well you are going to get your wish.