After a “series of setbacks,” former President George H. W. Bush continues to battle illness, now in a Houston hospital’s Intensive Care Unit. Doctors are “cautiously optimistic” but the 88-year-old’s worsening condition has many worried that his days may be numbered… that is, except for the cold & barbarous trolls on Twitter who seem to be… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Health
Supreme Court denies Hobby Lobby request for reprieve from health care mandate
The Supreme Court has denied a request by Hobby Lobby to shield the company from the so-called contraceptive mandate while its legal battle plays out, after a federal court last week similarly ruled against the Christian-owned company. Source: FOXNews.com
Five ways your health care will change in 2013
The Affordable Care Act’s biggest year is, without a doubt, 2014: That’s when the federal subsidies to purchase health insurance roll out. It’s also when penalties for not buying coverage kick in. But many of the big changes will start gradually in 2013. They range from increasing payments to Medicaid doctors to upping Medicare taxes… Read more »
Earn an average salary? Covering your health spending will take 58.3 workdays
We usually think about the growth in health care spending in straight dollars, the number put toward medicine from one year to the next. Chris Conover has another way of going about it: He recently graphed the number of work days, paid at average wage, necessary to buy an average amount of health care. Right… Read more »