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Video: Glenn Beck Attacks Barbara Duck
Oh the marvels of technology, just sign in to Facebook and you can have Glenn Beck attack you too. The pictures are classic! Be sure you have a Facebook picture on your profile that you like as this is how it shows up.
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Again, I thank ScrubsGallery.com for advertising with the Medical Quack.
This month they are offering a discount on Baby Phat Scrubs with the special code below. BD
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We are back to the same 3 companies again, Johnson and Johnson, Boston Scientific and Abbott, same questions over patents and more legal expenses to pass 
along to consumers in the price of a stent. If these 3 could settle their differences and make some donations for charity instead of all these legal battles, that would really be nice.
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This is how one country is doing it, with the Government jumping in for relief. Granted Australia is not quite as bad in the economic hurt area as the US is right now so they have some additional positives going in their direction. What is being emphasized here too is standards and better healthcare IT integration. 
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This was a survey taken before the big consumer electronics show in Hanover, Germany started. I guess this could mean some potential sales for the folks at PositiveID who manufacture the chip and the software that now allows reporting to personal health records. Im not ready for a chip yet myself. BD
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This week we have a 30 day extension on the Medicare/Tri-Care cuts and this meeting occurs about one week before the next deadline hits again. The pay cut 
situation has gone on for way too many years without a permanent solution.
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This is the latest request from MedPac and with trying to equal out what is being paid out. Reports like this normally send panic to those who are participants in the Advantage plans. From one side of the coin there are many pharmacy benefit managers and insurance HMO type of companies making a lot of money from handling only Medicare Advantage plans. 
Today, coincidentally, Medicare suspended marketing and adding new members to an insurance company for failure to provide services and adding extra imposing therapy authorization requirements not approved by CMS.
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Once again many thanks to Acumed Scrubs for advertising with the Medical Quack. The new Spring Scrubs are still on sale. 
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In healthcare insurance we all certainly know what this is all about and the fact that it came to head the way it has had a lot to do with attitudes and running algorithmic codes with automation and leaving out this one little element called communication, not data, human. We still need this.
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One good thing about this senator, Jim Bunning, is the fact that he is retiring and perhaps not soon enough. His big battle was not wanting to add to the deficit, but its there anyway for all to work on, so lets dig a deeper grave here for the unemployed who are also someones patient and make life a little more difficult right now. In addition when they get sick, there needs to be a physician who will see them and with the Medicare cuts and some of those individuals maybe getting close to qualify for Medicare, we are not accomplishing anything here. 