Comments on: Medical roundup

By: Black Death

Black Death — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 06:57:51 +0000

Generic BCP’s cost less than $10/month. The whole problem with insurance coverage and religious objections goes away if BCP’s are available OTC.

By: SPO

SPO — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 18:03:55 +0000

Re: Dismissal of surgeon. It’s hard to tell from the article, but was termination authorized by the failure to notify? If not expressly authorized, I could see how an arbitrator could be influenced here. (Not that arbitrators shouldn’t have to follow the law, but often times arbitrators do deliberately avoid the letter of the law to avoid giving windfalls.)

Award seems excessive.

By: cc

cc — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 15:37:17 +0000

On the calorie reduction, I would first point out that elephants only eat salad and look how big they are. Seriously, they are assuming that people only buy single serving pizza? People buy pizza for the whole family or for a party. Now they will have to buy multiple smaller pizzas? Will they need special permission? For burgers, I will sometimes buy the giant burger or two smaller sandwiches–will I not be allowed to buy 2? This is way overboard nannyism. Obesity can sneak up on you. If you only gain 1 lb/yr (1/365th per day) you will eventually be obese, but the daily effect is too small to notice. Portion control was tried under Obama’s school lunch program, and not only was the food inedible, but larger athletes, who burn 3000 calories/day, were starving. This is all frankly none of their business. This is what happens when you get socialized medicine–suddenly the government owns you.

By: jimc5499

jimc5499 — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 13:52:47 +0000

Mr. Singer is on the money. I don’t know about contraceptives but, a few weeks ago I got into some poison ivy and had a reaction to it. My Doctor proscribed a steroid cream for it. My insurance co-pay was $15. After paying for the cream I found out that it was only $8 if I would not have used my insurance.