Gizmo is foot loose and fancy free. Enjoying life! I like the evolution of the caduceus! Created by the Harvard and Wharton MBA's that now run Big Pharma! Local bias paper ran a major article on how RFK Jr. is not qualified to run HHS. Durbin expressed his guided medical opinion confirming this. I guess Alex Azar who guided the Covid con…
Gizmo is foot loose and fancy free. Enjoying life! I like the evolution of the caduceus! Created by the Harvard and Wharton MBA's that now run Big Pharma! Local bias paper ran a major article on how RFK Jr. is not qualified to run HHS. Durbin expressed his guided medical opinion confirming this. I guess Alex Azar who guided the Covid con should be recalled! Time for Durbin to wake up and not be under the spell of Big Pharma.
What does not get much attention is,how all the fed intrusion into medicine has led to the expansion of the field of hosp admin which I believe was virtually nonexistent until the passage of medicare. Now those bozos are fully in charge and making big bucks
Completely agree with you here! Retired last year after 45 years working as an RN in open heart surgery and it was so different back in the day. Now I’ve talked to administration about problems and they are not interested in investigating problematic doctors and procedures that are borderline ethical (medical ethics has REALLY not kept up with medicine). Even our CEO, who was an excellent vascular surgeon, immediately adopted administration speak when he accepted the position. Between insurance and corporate it is impossible to advocate for your patients
And speaking of medicare (which I just signed up for)…why would you devise an insurance system for elderly individuals that is soooo convoluted that I believe that you will never find out which policy is a “best fit “ for you. Of course it is predominantly based on prescriptions with a footnote emphasis on fitness or diet. I really don’t know if someone will be able to unscramble this egg but I hope the new administration does something to help out.
Gee, do you think there could be some connection between the caduceus evolution and the United Health CEO hit this week? Their litigation record includes a fair amount of mendacity and deception to the general public particularly in the Medicare Advantage segment of their enterprise.
Well Bonnie you were well ahead of me, then. I had no clue, now you got me going down the 2nd rabbit hole . . . asclepius's rod. Heck that has a dang snake around it. . .
I'm not a doctor but, if so, I wouldn't choose either of these things.
How about a heart held in a fragile grasp with two hands in offering upwards? Perhaps just a bit more appropriate to combine with the Hippocrates oath of "First do no harm."
Yes, so much has changed in the health care field now days, & just trying to find a doctor, (or a NP in my case), that is on my “insurance carrier list”, has been difficult. But, the money that is made for carriers, is extremely profitable! The fees charged for services, and/or medical items/supplies used in hospitals or Urgent Care facilities is so expensive! I’m not surprised that someone took another’s life - someone that made so much money in the health care industry of course; but, that is not a reason to kill for. I’m sure the truth may come out as to why this happened, but, it may be a long wait for the truth. Very sad.
It all really started going downhill when the hospitals (corporations) started buying out the MD’s practices Now they are owned by corporate healthcare which is in bed with big pharma, big insurance and the government. This doesn’t make for the best care. You basically have to go outside the system, pay out of pocket and find an independent physician. Lots of MD’s have given up the rat race and practice independently. It costs, but ultimately it will keep you healthier.
Ned, gonna disagree - what we need is more "for profit" health care, less gummint interference, more private competition. If we want to subsidize HC for "the poor," etc., then provide them with a voucher for basic insurance to which they can add to themself or thru a 3rd party for Cadillac plans, etc.
Once you take the profit out of HC you’ll end up with maybe one MRI per state, in a large city of course, and the least capable or most pretentious going into medicine.
Gizmo is foot loose and fancy free. Enjoying life! I like the evolution of the caduceus! Created by the Harvard and Wharton MBA's that now run Big Pharma! Local bias paper ran a major article on how RFK Jr. is not qualified to run HHS. Durbin expressed his guided medical opinion confirming this. I guess Alex Azar who guided the Covid con should be recalled! Time for Durbin to wake up and not be under the spell of Big Pharma.
What does not get much attention is,how all the fed intrusion into medicine has led to the expansion of the field of hosp admin which I believe was virtually nonexistent until the passage of medicare. Now those bozos are fully in charge and making big bucks
Not to mention killing people with their horrible protocols.
Completely agree with you here! Retired last year after 45 years working as an RN in open heart surgery and it was so different back in the day. Now I’ve talked to administration about problems and they are not interested in investigating problematic doctors and procedures that are borderline ethical (medical ethics has REALLY not kept up with medicine). Even our CEO, who was an excellent vascular surgeon, immediately adopted administration speak when he accepted the position. Between insurance and corporate it is impossible to advocate for your patients
And speaking of medicare (which I just signed up for)…why would you devise an insurance system for elderly individuals that is soooo convoluted that I believe that you will never find out which policy is a “best fit “ for you. Of course it is predominantly based on prescriptions with a footnote emphasis on fitness or diet. I really don’t know if someone will be able to unscramble this egg but I hope the new administration does something to help out.
Gee, do you think there could be some connection between the caduceus evolution and the United Health CEO hit this week? Their litigation record includes a fair amount of mendacity and deception to the general public particularly in the Medicare Advantage segment of their enterprise.
hmmm. learned a new word today.
I had to look it up! I know what the caduceus is, but as far as evolution...thst lost me! This site lays it out pretty clearly the difference between the caduceus and the rod of asclepius. https://sites.google.com/stu.clcillinois.edu/history-on-ancient-medicine/ancient-greek/the-caduceus-vs-rod-of-asclepius
Well Bonnie you were well ahead of me, then. I had no clue, now you got me going down the 2nd rabbit hole . . . asclepius's rod. Heck that has a dang snake around it. . .
I'm not a doctor but, if so, I wouldn't choose either of these things.
How about a heart held in a fragile grasp with two hands in offering upwards? Perhaps just a bit more appropriate to combine with the Hippocrates oath of "First do no harm."
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Me too!
Yes, so much has changed in the health care field now days, & just trying to find a doctor, (or a NP in my case), that is on my “insurance carrier list”, has been difficult. But, the money that is made for carriers, is extremely profitable! The fees charged for services, and/or medical items/supplies used in hospitals or Urgent Care facilities is so expensive! I’m not surprised that someone took another’s life - someone that made so much money in the health care industry of course; but, that is not a reason to kill for. I’m sure the truth may come out as to why this happened, but, it may be a long wait for the truth. Very sad.
It all really started going downhill when the hospitals (corporations) started buying out the MD’s practices Now they are owned by corporate healthcare which is in bed with big pharma, big insurance and the government. This doesn’t make for the best care. You basically have to go outside the system, pay out of pocket and find an independent physician. Lots of MD’s have given up the rat race and practice independently. It costs, but ultimately it will keep you healthier.
It is worth it, considering the alternative.
This graphic shows the end-stage evolution of the caduces to dollar signs:
https://nedb.substack.com/p/for-profit-healthcare
"For-profit healthcare makes ill-gotten gains."
Ned, gonna disagree - what we need is more "for profit" health care, less gummint interference, more private competition. If we want to subsidize HC for "the poor," etc., then provide them with a voucher for basic insurance to which they can add to themself or thru a 3rd party for Cadillac plans, etc.
Once you take the profit out of HC you’ll end up with maybe one MRI per state, in a large city of course, and the least capable or most pretentious going into medicine.