Does your health care provider offer credit as a solution to the medical costs you already can’t afford? It may well be that your provider knows more about health than finance while offering a simple solution or perhaps, the health care industry and finance industry make a great team each…
Most of the spices consumed in America come from foreign sources, in fact, much of our food does. But spices are twice as likely to bear contamination than other types of imported foods due to a number of factors. Spices tend to come from smaller farms and therefore a much…
Houston Chronicle Columnist Patricia Kilday Hart reports how legislative “reforms” that favored insurance companies have gone too far. Delays in response to doctors’ recommendations led to the premature fatal condition of a Harrison County deputy sheriff who was injured in a high speed chase. Read this compelling article from the…
How many lives are lost each year as a result of mistakes made by the medical profession? Over ten years ago, the number reported by the Institute of Medicine was 98,000. That was in the organization’s famous report known as the “To Err is Human” report. Originally desputed, that number…
The 2011 Texas Supreme Court ruling, Texas Mutual vs. Ruttiger, states that injured workers no longer can seek damages against insurance companies who deny claims “in bad faith.” Since this ruling, denials to workers comp claims have skyrocketed while claimants’ efforts in desputing denials has fallen to a success rate of…
Although rare, allergic skin reactions to acetaminophen can lead to hospitalization, even death. The Food and Drug Administration recommends that those who experience skin reactions should halt usage of the drug. Despite the rarity percentage-wise, acetaminophen is the most commonly taken drug on the market and therefore public awareness of…
200,000 people a year – that’s what some estimates say. Politico.Com reports that Captain Chesney Sullenberger, airlines pilot known for the “Miracle on the Hudson”, now campaigns for awareness of this staggering figure that is the equivalent of “20 Airline Crashes a Week”. What if the airlines collectively were responsible…
After years of reported neglect going unaddressed, after years of reported fraudulent charges to the government form falsified documentation of treatment, after directing employees to alter information in insurance claims, after adding conditions to patients’ charts whom the doctor had never seen…. After at least three patient deaths as per…
Facility owners often fail to report while state, county, and local emergency management agencies fail to verify their reporting. Hazardous chemicals are often mis-identified or their locations are mis-reported. This lax oversight and scant reporting is the target of an exclusive report from Reuters. Read the article From Reuters or…
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