Health Care And The Economy–Always Changing

A New President’s Healthcare Plan
It has been more than 60 days since the President Obama took office and the focus has turned toward from the auto industry to the health of the overall economy. So where does that leave the Obama-Biden healthcare plan? Will there be some movement in this year to begin to solve this healthcare puzzle [...]

What Is Medicaid?

According to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Medicaid is for people who cannot afford medical insurance. The rules and regulations that govern Medicaid, whether you are eligible, are determined by each state. In other words, states determine what is a “needy” group and who would be eligible for Medicaid assistance. [Type in [...]

A Handwritten Note No More

What if you knew what your prescription said and so did your pharmacist? What if they didn’t have to call your doctor to confirm? What if you could have the prescription forwarded to your pharmacy before you even get there and the drug you were actually prescribed was waiting for you or a generic equivalent [...]

Health Insurance, Questions, Neighborhoods, Diets? What do they have in common?

Can Health Insurance be affordable? Are there ways to keep your costs down? The answer to both of these questions is yes and no.  Sometimes it is as simple as losing weight–not that losing weight is ever simple–and yes you can actually lower your monthly health insurance costs by losing weight and getting closer to or [...]

Changes…

Today President Obama made federal funds available for embryonic stem cell research. This change overturns former President Bush’s policy that the National Institutes of Health could only provide research funding to the existing 60 cell lines, which were currently available when Bush signed the executive order in 2001.
This could possibly mean both a lot of battles [...]