Published: 22 Aug 10 12:07 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Mother-of-two Elin Andersson has highlighted staffing shortage problems at a maternity ward in Sundsvall in northern Sweden after she was asked to clean out her own hospital room just two days after giving birth by caesarean section.
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Every time Andersson required medicine she had to call staff to remind them, she told local newspaper Sundsvalls Tidning. The new baby's father meanwhile was requested to aid in the care of his partner.
Two days after the operation, the recovering mum decided she was ready to go home.
”That was when the midwife said I had one final task to perform. Then she went and got a big white laundry bag and asked me to clean out the room and the bed where I had lain,” she told the newspaper.
Two midwives at the Sundsvall maternity ward admitted that Elin Andersson painted an accurate picture of their workplace.
”She describes precisely those bits that we don't have time for,” said Gunnel Westerlund.
”Medical safety always comes first and you can't leave a mother while she's giving birth. It's true that we sometimes need to make use of the parents and that doesn't feel good at all.”
five GOP officials who joined the lawsuit challenging the Affordable Care Act, ran for governor this year. Four of the Five lost their primary.
~Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum lost his primary for Governor last night. Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons, South Carolina's Henry McMaster, Michigan's Mike Cox who joined the suit against Obama care also lost primaries. Only Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett who ran virtually unopposed won the Governor's primary
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
More than 3M seniors may have to switch drug plans
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR (AP) – 13 hours ago
WASHINGTON — A plan by Medicare to try to make it simpler for consumers to pick drug coverage could force 3 million seniors to switch plans next year whether they like it or not, says an independent analysis.
That risks undercutting President Barack Obama's promise that people can keep their health plans if they like them.
And it could be an unwelcome surprise for many seniors who hadn't intended to make a change during Medicare's open enrollment season this fall.
The analysis by Avalere Health, a leading private research firm, estimated that more than 3 million beneficiaries will see their prescription plan eliminated as part of a new effort by Medicare to winnow down duplicative coverage and offer consumers more meaningful choices.
Seniors would not lose coverage, but they could see changes in their premiums and copayments.
Medicare officials dismissed the Avalere estimate without offering their own number. "Anybody who is producing that kind of analysis is simply guessing," said Jonathan Blum, deputy administrator for Medicare.
But Bonnie Washington, a senior analyst with Avalere, said the company's analysis used Medicare's specifications.
For example, Medicare has already notified insurers they will no longer be able to offer more than one "basic" drug plan in any given location. Several major prescription plans, including CVS-Caremark and AARP, offered two basic options throughout the country this year, Washington said. Eliminating that particular form of duplication among the top plans would force 2.75 million beneficiaries to find new coverage, according to Avalere's estimate.
When other changes are taken into account, as many as 3.7 million Medicare recipients may have to switch, the analysis concluded. That amounts to about 20 percent of the 17.5 million enrolled in stand-alone drug plans.
Avalere serves industry and government clients with in-depth research on Medicare and Medicaid. The company's president was a health care budget analyst in the Clinton White House.
Former Medicare administrator Leslie Norwalk said the change might make things easier for people signing up for Medicare but harder for those already in the program.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Half of the items you list Box are lies and you know it, it won't reduce cost, it doesn't insure health-care for all Americans, it doesn't guarantee your choice of doctors and health plans, patient safety and quality care are still in question, and it doesn't prevent bankruptcy or debt as cost of health-care is going to rise. There are unforeseen consequences that haven't even come to light yet that will not be good for many people as well.
but no one will define the difference between HEALTHCARE AND HEALTH INSURANCE......not to mention our public school system refuses to teach the PERSONAL responsibility required for healthcare....so now the government will make that decision for us via national healthcare...
Mr/Mrs.Smith....since you decided to foregoe your yearly physical we will not treat you Mrs/Mr Smith....since you decided to foregoe your medication we will not treat you
READ BETWEEN THE LINES FOLKS......the government lawyers are.......
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Paranoia (par·a·noi·a) –noun baseless or excessive suspicion of the motives of others.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
California insurance regulators cleared the way Wednesday for Anthem Blue Cross to implement scaled-back rate hikes after a previous increase was canceled amid an uproar over its size.
Anthem said it intends to put the new rates — averaging 14% and as high as 20% — into effect Oct. 1 for nearly 800,000 individual California policyholders.
Regulators also allowed one of Anthem's nonprofit competitors, Blue Shield of California, to move ahead with rate increases — averaging 19% and as high as 29% — for 250,000 individual policyholders.
Paranoia (par·a·noi·a) –noun baseless or excessive suspicion of the motives of others.
Really?....I know a whole bunch of ready to retire folks who are paranoid they will loose their 'guaranteed' pensions and benefits.....hurry up and vote someone in to change that lingo.....
do you work in healthcare????? I do.....and I know the conversations the MD/Nurse has with families and patients.....THAT IS HOW F'EN PERSONAL IT IS.....ask why WHY!!! THE GOVERNMENT OF NYS REQUIRES(IN LAW) MD'S TO TELL PATIENT'S THEY ARE DYING.......PARANOID???? HOW OLD ARE YOU? AND WHAT ARE YOUR CO-MORBIDITIES-- this is how you shall be weighed against the pressure of the taxpayers not wanting to pay for your issues.....Paranoid?....you should be.....
IF THE GOVERNMENT SAYS IT'S A BETTER CAR OR FREE......THEY ARE F'EN LYING......I'm not paranoid, just not trusting.......
BTW....here is your medicine(sure it's yours or the one the government will allow you to have based on cost to the taxpayers)....trust me...I am now the next biggest government union next to the teachers union.....trust me? paranoid? you will be weighed out and meted out......how much weight do you think little old you will carry??????
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
POLL: Dislike of healthcare law crosses party lines, 1 in 4 Dems want repeal By Bob Cusack - 10/06/10 05:55 AM ET
Healthcare reform is hurting the reelection chances of freshman Democrats in the House, according to The Hill/ANGA poll.
A majority of voters in key battleground districts favor repeal of the legislative overhaul Congress passed this year.
President Obama predicted in the spring that the new law would become popular as people learned more about it. But the poll shows Republicans strongly oppose it, independents are wary of it and a surprising number of Democrats also want it overturned. Republicans have vowed to repeal the law if they take control of Congress, and the findings of Mark Penn, who led Penn Schoen Berland’s polling team, show that healthcare is a major issue for voters this year.
When asked if they wanted the legislation repealed, 56 percent of voters in the surveyed districts said yes. “Only Democrats were opposed to repeal (23 percent to 64 percent),” Penn said. “Undecided voters wanted the healthcare law repealed by 49 percent to 27 percent.”
Obama administration has handed out 111 waivers, up from 33 last month for Obamacare, meaning companies will not be bound by the conditions - for various reasons:
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