Browsing the archives for the health care tag

Group Death Cooperative

I’ve written about the American Health System before: http://theromaniandream.com/blog/2010/02/01/taboo-%E2%80%93-american-health-system/ It’s not that my naivety level has suffered any major changes lately, but my experience with my health care “provider” (aka Group Health Cooperative)  is a surreal one. Lately I have been having some mild pain in my right hip and I went to have it [...]

Taboo – American Health System

Introduction here: http://theromaniandream.com/blog/2009/07/17/taboo/ Today’s topic: American Health System To put it short the system is as crappy as it seems viewed from outside the US. Even crappier. Health care is a business in the US. It’s not about the patient anymore. It’s about the profits of the Health Care “Provider”. Anything and everything will be [...]

Getting Well: It’s About Time

As I was idle yesterday, waiting for something I happened to find a Wall Street Journal near by. I started browsing it and one article caught my attention. It was called: “Getting Well: It’s About Time”. Here is an on-line version of it: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204488304574427111102858016.html It caught my attention because the health care here in the [...]