Archive for the 'Health Care' Category

The Food and Drug Administration – after telling us Vioxx was “safe” until it killed thousands along with other travesties – now wants to assume god like powers to ”regulate” vitamins, minerals, herbs, and natural substances like fruit juices and water if they’re used to “treat disease”.
Ever since I’ve been around nutritional MLMs there has always been [...]

The other day I was writing about my experience finding I have many “ADD” traits.
Here’s an interesting discussion I found on ADHD and Entrepreneurship
I think they did a good job summarizing how the traits commonly called “ADHD” are really entrepreneurial assets:
ADHD Distracted-Seems to always have something new to think about.
Entrepreneur – Constantly has [...]

I just ran across this because I have been giving up most of my caffeine. I still manage to get some each day, but I was consuming lots of it.
At the beginning of Lent, I stopped drinking carbonated drinks. I was drinking water, sugar free lemonade and iced tea (with caffeine).
Just the other day I [...]

I didn’t post yesterday because I was in bed sick.
I started coming down with something that I noticed Sunday PM.
I had an appointment with my physician for Monday anyway. I went there, got some prescriptions for this bug I have and am hopefully on the mend.
But while I was there, I asked if he thought [...]

One of the barriers to working full time at home or in a small business is the cost of health insurance. One of the biggest factors in the soaring costs is the price of medication. The system for approving drugs for certain diseases is rigged to favor deep pocket, patentable players. Things you buy now [...]

I think, overall, that Bush’s health insurance deductibility plan is a good move to make competition enter the field. But it may end up raising taxes for some.
Right now, the cost of health insurance isn’t taxable to employees. Under the new plan, everything your employer pays for you will become taxable income. People whose employer [...]

One of the benefits of telecommuting or working at home is being free from the “epidemics” that can sweep through an office building or school (some schools near me are using “snow days” to shut down as “flu days” since we have no snow problems but massive flu problems this year!)
But everybody has to go [...]

Consumer Reports Best Buy Drug site is online to help consumers just in time for President Bush’s State of the Union message where he’s trying to spur market reform to help halt skyrocketing health care prices. Small business, home business, and other folks grappling with these costs should welcome this information.
On the site, consumers get [...]

The health insurance-government complex may not be able to keep costs low, but in the time worn model of business “if you can’t beat them, sue them” they tried to get the government to clamp down on a private association of individuals who voluntarily helped each other with their health insurance expenses. The monthly cost [...]

President Bush is proposing a new Health Insurance Tax Deduction … up to $7,500 for individuals an $15,000 for families to help bridge the gap between those who have health insurance already paid for by an employer and those on Medicare, Medicaid, and other government funded plans.
It’s designed to make coverage more universal by encouraging [...]