The Senate Health Bill: Federal Micromanagement of Health Insurance

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) giant new health care bill contains the same provisions as the other House and Senate bills to establish Federal micromanagement of all private health insurance. Like the others, the Reid bill would subject all private health insurance — whether purchased from an insurance company by employer groups or individuals, or provided through an employer or union self-insured plan — to detailed Federal regulation. These so called “insurance reform” provisions amount to a de facto nationalization of health insurance and they would produce that effect regardless of whether or not Congress creates another, new government-run health insurance plan. Benefit Control. Of particular concern to patients should be that the detailed benefits in their health insurance...

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Women's Orgasmic Capability

I've often written about the various orgasms women have: clitoral, g-spot, vaginal (general, with no pinpointed target zone) and anal. I've made a mission of conveying that there is no "better" or more "normal" orgasm; the one/s you have, however you have them, are normal  and the ones you aspire to are also exciting so long as you don't get hung up on judging the way you come, or don't. Still, even women with the best attitudes about pleasure sometimes wonder why she can have a vaginal orgasm just like that!  without needing extra stimulation from hands or vibes or fairy dust. They ask: what makes her so different from me? And I don't always have the answer. To many women's frustration, what we do know is that women are wired slightly differently from one another, built differently,...

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Obama, Democrats reassess health care

WASHINGTON — Abandoning the health care overhaul is not an option, a senior White House official said Wednesday, after President Barack Obama's top domestic initiative took a devastating hit with the Democratic loss of the Senate seat in the state of Massachusetts. Obama adviser David Axelrod said administration officials will take into account the message voters delivered Tuesday in electing Republican Scott Brown but declined to go farther. Questioned about the fate of health care legislation, Axelrod said, "It's not an option simply to walk away from a problem that's only going to get worse." The stinging loss Tuesday cost Obama the 60-vote Senate majority he was counting on to pass the far-reaching legislation. The outcome splintered the rank and file on how to salvage the bill, energized...

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Need for N95 respirators in H1N1 prevention uncertain

PHILADELPHIA -- A revised analysis of data on the ability of N95 respirators to prevent transmission of viral infections, including influenza, to health care workers raised new doubts about the appropriateness of recent guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on N95 use for influenza protection. The new analysis of results from an Australian and Chinese study that compared the efficacy of N95 respirators and surgical masks in blocking transmission of influenza and other viruses to health care workers showed that the relatively expensive and uncomfortable respirators were not significantly better than surgical masks for preventing transmission, Holly Seale, Ph.D., reported at the annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). The report by Dr. Seale...

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Sex After Herpes - Yes You Can Still Have a Fulfilling Sex Life If You Have Genital Herpes

When you first get diagnosed with herpes, it can feel like the end of the world. You may feel like life as you know it is over, and one of the most common misconceptions about genital herpes is that you'll never have a normal sex life again. Well, I'm here to tell you that simply isn't true. With a few precautions and a lot of common sense, you'll find that you can have sex after herpes, and a varied and fulfilling sex life at that. The first thing you have to realise is things are going to be a bit different from now on, and you are probably going to have to be a bit more careful than you were in the past. The first thing to know is you'll absolutely need to avoid penetrative sex if you or your partner is currently experiencing a herpes outbreak on your genitals. This is the main unfortunate...

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What Kind of Gout Medicine Can Relieve Gout Pain?

Gout pain can be very debilitating and can often restrict your movement. How do you get rid of this pain or what kind of gout medicine should you take to get some relief? Here is a list of gout medicines to take so that you can get relief from gout pain. A popular gout medicine used to treat gout patients is colchicines, this medicine works by restricting the function of white blood cells, they can't move from one site to another. The patient is recommended 0.6 mg tablet every two hours till the pain subsides. Stop the medicine if you start feeling nauseous or have diarrhea. This medicine also functions as a prophylactic drug, in other words it acts as a preventive medicine. During the initial six months of treatment when the medicine will work to reduce the uric acid level in blood, the...

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Eliminating Gout Forever

Gout is a type of arthritis that is characterized by sudden burning pain, stiffness and swelling in a joint, often the big toe. The disease is hallmarked by elevated levels of uric acid in the bloodstream, caused by deposits of monosodium urate crystals which accumulate in the joints. It is normal for some uric acid to be present in the blood stream because the body is continually breaking down cells and forming new ones. The risk of gout is higher if the individual is overweight, drinks alcohol or eats food high in purines consistently. Familiar foods such as fish or meats can be high in purines and are precursors of uric acid. Purines are the colorless crystals which metabolize into uric acid, and when the kidneys cannot eliminate enough in the urine, the uric acid level becomes abnormally...

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