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Category Archives: Health Care
COVID-19 disease modelling
Excellent article in the NY Times: Worst-Case Estimates for U.S. Coronavirus Deaths By Sheri Fink March 13, 2020Updated 5:02 p.m. ET Projections based on C.D.C. scenarios show a potentially vast toll. But those numbers don’t account for interventions now underway. … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Health Care, Uncategorized
Tagged disease modeling, predictions
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Still no COVID testing available?
THIS REPORT IS RIGHT ON – Here is the real problem. After Trump promised ‘anybody’ can get coronavirus testing, patients and doctors still complain of roadblocks – By Shawn Boburg, Emma Brown, Derek Hawkins and Amy Goldstein March 12, 2020 … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Health Care, Trump, Uncategorized
Tagged COVID, COVID-19, testing
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COVID-19 is here!
We now have a confirmed case admitted at Southampton Hospital. It is time to reassess. Although there is but a single patient confirmed on the South Fork of Long Island, suspicion is running high. (update 3/11: 6 cases in Suffolk … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, East Hampton, Health Care, long island, Medicaid, medicare, Trump, trumpcare, Uncategorized
Tagged cost of test, COVID-19, economy, pandemic, testing
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Sanders’ Vaporware
Published as an LTE in the East Hampton Star. Vaporware Springs, February 24, 2020 Why doesn’t Bernie Sanders level with voters as to how he plans to pay for his flagship “Medicare for All” plan? The answer is simple: He … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, Medicaid, medicare, Uncategorized
Tagged bernie, green mountain plan, M4A, sanders, vermont
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Exposing Lee Zeldin’s Record on Healthcare
Remember the Graham Cassidy bill? By Perry Gershon Representative Lee Zeldin (R-NY1) is a master at telling half-truths. He goes to great lengths to tell his constituents that he supports healthcare coverage for people with pre-existing conditions and lowering … Continue reading
Posted in drug costs, Health Care, Medicaid, medicare, perry gershon, Trump, Uncategorized, Zeldin
Tagged appropriations, NIH
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COVID-19: just a bad flu?
Last night Pres. Trump spoke to the nation about the Corona virus epidemic. Quotes: “I am shocked by the number of people who die from the common flu annually. ” The gist being this cannot be much worse than the … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, Trump, Uncategorized, Zeldin
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Trump’s Sabotage of Healthcare
In spite of Trump’s SOTU lies, healthcare disinformation (with Lee Zeldin’s complicity), here is where we are on health care: A recent poll shows Americans disapprove of President Trump’s handling of the Affordable Care Act by 56 to 35 percent … Continue reading
Posted in ACA, Health Care, Trump, Uncategorized, Zeldin
Tagged dismantling, healthcare, lies, obamacare
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Curb Drug Costs: Makes Sense For All
By Mike Anthony, on page A10 of the Southampton Press: http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/ODN/SouthamptonEast/ Makes Sense For All Dr. David Posnett’s informative letter about House of Representative bill HR3 [“Choosing Sides,” Letters, January 9], see prior post herein, details key elements of Congress’s … Continue reading
Posted in drug costs, drug epidemic, Health Care, Medicaid, medicare, Opiod, Opioid, Uncategorized, veterans, Zeldin
Tagged drug costs, HR3, pharma, Zeldin
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Debunking Anti-Vaxxers
Posted in Health Care, science, Trump, Uncategorized, vaccines
Tagged anti-vaxxers, myths
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Trump: I will “Negotiate Like Crazy”
https://www.27east.com/east-hampton-press/choosing-sides-1666846/ Letter printed in the East Hampton and Southampton Press, Jan 6, 2020: Choosing Sides Donald Trump has repeatedly proposed to allow Medicare to “negotiate like crazy” on prescription drugs. Now, he is backtracking. Was this all showmanship? He … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, Medicaid, medicare, Uncategorized
Tagged big pharma, drug, Drug Prices, negotiate, pharma
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