Remedy Is Elusive as Metallic Hips Fail at a Fast Rate
By BARRY MEIER
BOSTON — As surgeons here sliced through tissue surrounding a failed artificial hip in a 53-year-old man, they discovered what looked like a biological dead zone. There were matted strands of tissue stained gray and black; a large strip of muscle near the hip no longer contracted.
Dr. Young-Min Kwon, the lead orthopedic surgeon on the operation, said the damage was more extensive than tests had indicated and might be permanent. “The prognosis is guarded,” Dr. Kwon said.
For Small Business, Bad News on Health Care Costs Isn’t as Bad
By ROBB MANDELBAUMTHE AGENDA
How small-business issues are shaping politics and policy.
There’s bad news from the workplace: as The New York Times reported on Tuesday, the cost of health insurance rose sharply in 2011 after several years of relatively slow growth. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation’s annual survey on employer health benefits, the average premium to insure a family of four grew 9 percent, to just over $15,073. For single coverage, premiums rose 8 percent, to $5,429.
Calling the Nurse ‘Doctor,’ a Title Physicians Oppose
By GARDINER HARRIS
NASHVILLE — With pain in her right ear, Sue Cassidy went to a clinic. The doctor, wearing a white lab coat with a stethoscope in one pocket, introduced herself.
“Hi. I’m Dr. Patti McCarver, and I’m your nurse,” she said. And with that, Dr. McCarver stuck a scope in Ms. Cassidy’s ear, noticed a buildup of fluid and prescribed an allergy medicine.
Stuck in Bed for 19 Months, at Hospital’s Expense
By JOHN LELAND
ON Jan. 4, 2010, Raymond Fok was changing trains on his way to kidney dialysis treatment when he collapsed on the Canal Street subway platform. Emergency medical technicians examined him and took him by ambulance to the nearest hospital, New York Downtown, near the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge. Workers in the emergency room recorded that Mr. Fok’s speech was slurred and that he was lurching from side to side when he walked.
Schweitzer calls for universal health care
Associated Press | Posted: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 1:39 pmHELENA - Gov. Brian Schweitzer said Wednesday he will ask the U.S. government to let Montana set up its own universal health care program, taking his rhetorical fight over health care to another level.
Like Republicans who object to the federal health care law, the Democratic governor also argues it doesn't do enough to control costs and says his state should have more flexibility than the law allows. But Schweitzer has completely different plans for the Medicare and Medicaid money the federal government gives the state to administer those programs.
The popular second-term Democrat would like to create a state-run system that borrows from the program used in Saskatchewan. He said the Canadian province controls cost by negotiating drug prices and limiting nonemergency procedures such as MRIs.
http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_cf63727a-ea09-11e0-85fd-001cc4c03286.html?print=1
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