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[unable to retrieve full-text content]The Government made it possible for people to choose between Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage for their care at 65. An alternative was provided under the guise of commercial healthcare providing better healthcare and other services to those who qualify for Medicare at a lesser cost. There are superficial and also meaningful pluses that are […] The post Difference in Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage Care appeared first on Angry...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Robert Devereaux, MD wrote a piece on upcoding at MedPage. “The Trouble With Upcoding Extends Far Beyond Ethics.” This is a topic I have touched upon a couple of times and have experienced myself. Fix the issue I am telling you about if you can or pass me along to someone who can. “The practice […] The post Upcoding and Ethical Behavior appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Recent articles I have been reading suggest Medicare Advantage provides healthcare at a lesser cost than Traditional Medicare. Or maybe it would be better to qualify this as individuals claim MA plans do so? I do not know whether such takes into consideration the cost of a Supplemental Plan or not and also Part D […] The post Authorization Requests appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]This week’s Covid coverage includes the most common variants … currently circulating – by r. j. Sigmund Briefly, since the CDC’s Covid demographic metrics continue to recede, albeit slowly. Among the “early indicators” “test positivity”, or the percentage of tests for Covid that were positive, fell to 4.8% during the week ending November 2nd, down […] The post Covid coverage includes the most common...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]In 2020, I enrolled in the Moderna clinical trial of their mRNA vaccine. I got the first jab in August 2020, and it turns out I was in the vaccine arm of the trial, not the placebo arm. I’ve now had seven vaccinations, as the vaccine has been updated. I contracted COVID once. Of course, […] The post Idaho public health to Idahoans: suffer and die appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]My parents retired to rural upstate NY, where they lived happily for 20 years. But naturally, as they aged, their health declined. At one point, my mom had a pulmonary embolism, and landed in a community hospital in Bennington VT, about 30 miles away. She got the care she needed, but when she was later […] The post The economics of healthcare is sick in Vermont appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]I have two dental implants, the first of which was done nearly ten years ago. They were both done after a tooth broke and the dentist told me he couldn’t save the tooth. I could have just left the hole, but elected to fill it with an implant, which was done in each case by […] The post The business of dental implants appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Republicans have long objected to the ACA, and Trump tried several times to have it overturned; he’s claimed he’ll replace it with something better, but in eight years, he’s never come up with even a rudiment of a proposal. And here’s Speaker Johnson at a campaign stop yesterday: “No Obamacare?” an attendee asked Johnson, referring […] The post Healthcare and the 2024 presidential election appeared first on Angry...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]The issue here? A Woman’s right to decide for herself what care she needs without threats of legal action or hindrance to healthcare. As can be seen in the first map, Illinois is centrally located amongst many states which ban or time-limit getting an abortion. Hence many patients go to Illinois as it is closer […] The post A Woman’s Right to Decide . . . appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]You are going to hear a lot from Vance saying, “Trump would, Trump says, Trump did, etc. Vance has little foundation to support his commentary. It will always be they said and not I believe or say . . . That is the Republican version of a vice president. Feet made of sand . . […] The post Vance . . . Trump administration would end funding to Planned Parenthood appeared first on Angry Bear.