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With apologies to the late Frank Zappa… even though we are going through the dog days of summer, the parade of health care troubles in the news is never ending, so I thought I would recap some of the more interesting issues discussed by some of my fellow health care skeptic bloggers.
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A fellow in the organizational structure of healthcare has been in the business over 
20 years and only know about having a board and having meetings, priceless!!
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The Wall Street Journal reported on a study in Health Affairs entitled “A Progress Report On Electronic Health Records In U.S. Hospitals” by Harvard researcher Ashish Jha and colleagues.
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The size of the award may be reduced as the article sates and one of their facilities 
in northern California was found negligent and short handed on staff with not meeting the guidelines and rules as set in California. The company operates 22 nursing facilities in the state.
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Two recent stories from two different parts of the US continue the theme of ever increasing concentration of power in our health care system.
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The article states that talks broke off and thus the workers went on strike and as we are seeing today, hardly anybody strikes over wages any more, its all benefits.
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In the Battle of Britain in WW2, the Royal Air Force (RAF) heroically repelled a foreign invasion of the UK.
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I love my dog a lot and I guess this is a good thing but human health insurance is far more important in my book and I hope this bill didnt take up too much administrative time for the Legislature to hash over. 
With some policies they have to deal with pre-existing conditions too, depending on age and when the dog or cat is enrolled.
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The hospital agreed to the payment without admitting any guilt or wrong doing. The 
charges were in excess of what is considered normal inpatient fees. There are not additional details here.