The first figures showing the results of Obamacare.
I know a lot of people who now try to avoid all doctors if possible. They have insurance, but the care is too expensive, so they stay home and just hope problems don’t get bad. A decline in life expectancy is no surprise to me.
Yes. Results of Obamacare. The big lie is that people’s health will be improved if they have health insurance. That was the presumption behind the wringing of hands that 49 million were uninsured.
Well, health insurance is really medical care insurance, not health insurance. And it has almost no correlation with the amount or quality of medical care a person receives. eg, Veterans with total coverage receive some of the worst quantity and quality care, but only when they depend on VA facilities.
Health is determined by parentage. If your biological parents were on tobacco/alcohol/drugs-TAD when you were conceived it impacts your health. If your pregnant mom used TAD or had other bad lifestyle, it impacts your health. If your childhood diet, exercise, etc was part of a bad lifestyle it impacts your health. If your adult lifestyle makes bad choices it impacts your health.
According to some doctors, the 3d leading cause of death is mistakes by healthcare workers. Based on that, we should avoid health care workers.
IBM Watson Health released a blurb. If it comes from IBM Watson Health, the smartest computer in the world, then we should believe it, right?
Wrong. The Watson blurb claimed flu vaccine is cost effective. But an accurate look at the facts reveals that in the population Watson studied, avoiding the flu vaccine gives you slightly better odds of avoiding subsequent flue disease and treatment for the flu.
As health reform is not up in the air, watch for every lobbyist and special interest (on both the right and left) to sling bogus statistics around to prove that they deserve a special place in the new health care reform.