Archive for the 'Health Care' Category

One reason there’s not more entrepreneurship and economic mobility into self employment is the area of health care. Dan Pink, author of Free Agent Nation and former Clinton White House dude suggested nationalized health care as the cure for that. Is that a cure or not? Here’s another perspective on that… a short film (@ [...]

Ergonomics was for wimps I thought until today. Then I found out why my neck was hurting so much! Evidently my computer screen is positioned too low. If I can raise the height of the screen so that I’m not tilting my head downwards most of the time, my neck will be alot better. My [...]

Want a simple way to keep fit while working at home? Don’t want to pay for a gym or job outside? If you’re a guy and want to keep some muscle mass after age 40, you may want to check out this simple system called, SimpleFit. Can’t do regular pull ups and push ups? There [...]

Sell honey from your family farm? Here’s some interesting news about the Honey business in general. From Honey Makes A Comeback As A Disease Fighter Called Medihoney, it is made from a highly absorbent seaweed-based material, saturated with manuka honey, a particularly potent type that experts say kills germs and speeds healing. Also called Leptospermum [...]

This blog post has a terrible title. I read it and thought… “I already don’t hate sugar!” But that’s not what it means of course. It’s really about how to cut down on sugar and not go crazy doing it. It’s important for everybody, but can especially be an issue if you work at home [...]

Sometimes people would leave the cubicle if their health allowed. They’re locked in because working for themselves would mean – at first – not having health insurance. As people age, High Blood Pressure is one of those frightening things that creep up on people. Any medication can be super expensive, but I was amazed to [...]

I know in our neck of the woods, pharmacies close at about 6 PM. So where do you go for medicine?  Given the fact that yesterday we went to one during normal business hours and could barely get the right prescription issued after hours of messing around, this sounded pretty neat. This system provides 24 [...]

One of the problems people have when trying to get out of the “health insurance system” is the misbelief that they can save money by “paying cash”. In most business that’s true -  paying up front in cash instead of having to argue with an insurance company should logically  warrant a discount. But that’s not [...]

The young and healthy don’t buy health insurance. So an insurance company is trying to coax them into the system by offering less coverage for lower premiums and giving them the option to buy more later. According to the story though, young people are better off with Health Savings Accounts and high deductible policies “in [...]

The free market may do what all the Presidential candidates only wish they could do: help lower health care costs. Already Wal Mart started offering $4 prescriptions on generics. Now Publix is offering free prescriptions on certain medications. The plan is being tested in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina. From Sun-Sentinal.com Publix supermarket chain [...]