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I get a newsletter from a group called SeniorAdvice.com.

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And now for an early report on what may be the latest fashion in the ongoing commercialization of US health care in the US.  In the last few weeks we spotted three stories that appear to be closely related.  (And thanks to one of our ever vigilant scouts for finding the first of these.)

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We have lost the way to look at situations as humans any longer, could things have been done differently?  The Utopia of risk free living is just that.  Doctors are afraid to speak up.  Schools are drowning in law.  He says people are acting like idiots among some other great informative topics. 

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Something awful happened to your loved one. A mistake. An error. Malpractice? You want to know whether you have a case, what their rights are, how to proceed.

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I have not written much about the seemingly endless health care reform debate in the US, because much of it has not been relevant to the issues we discuss on Health Care Renewal.  Now that the current phase of the debate is done, and legislation has been passed, let me offer my opinions on the few aspects that do seem relevant to this blog.

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Currently some of these types of screws are being used, but when they disintegrate over a couple years, holes are left, but this new process is supposed to fix that.   This is work in progress and the screws are made of composite material close to the properties of real bones so they mesh I believe.  It certainly beats a second surgery to remove the pins and screws put in place.  BD   

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I stumbled upon a very interesting group today, Health Care Without Harm - www.noharm.org

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DR. PANGLOSS AS NIH INSTITUTE DIRECTOR

JAMA is out today with a Commentary by Dr. Thomas Insel, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health. Using indirection, Dr. Insel has risen to the defense of seven academic psychiatrists on whom an ethical searchlight has been trained for the past several years by Senator Grassley and others. With ludicrous optimism and a series of straw man discussions, Dr. Insel makes the case that things are not really as bad as they seemed to be or, if they were, then other specialty physicians were doing much the same things. Dr. Insel needs to recalibrate his ethical compass.

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It certainly could come to fruition if we keep seeing the agreeing to disagree that have been on public display for the last year.  There are a lot of good things in the healthcare reform bill and what is odd is that the states under GOP leadership are protesting the mandatory insurance that came from the Senate originally. 

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Here is what I predict the the National Program for Healthcare IT in the United States will likely resemble in 2015 - namely, the National Programme for IT in the NHS in 2010:

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