The BG Health Care Thread: Decreasing the Surplus Population

[Fiye]

The first guy looks like he'd beat his woman the moment he botched a soccer match and the second guy looks like he handles wood better than anything else.

[Niiro]

The first guy looks like he'd beat his woman the moment he botched a soccer match

Good intuition, it's Nixon.

second guy looks like he handles wood better than anything else.

gay

[Dotsudoku]

shit young Nixon could get it

[kuronosan]

"You were wrong about something years ago so there's no way you've learned something" says every ignorant person ever.

Done. Got more important things to do and take care of.

[Dotsudoku]

indeed, if that was your takeaway then you haven't learned much

[Fondue]

well that was disappointing

[Gredival]

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/...watch-tv?93042

I love me some lean and cheap insurance customers that won't actually cost me money to cover.

[archibaldcrane]

Sure did take a lot of paragraphs to get to this:

The Affordable Care Act prohibits insurers from denying people coverage based on pre-existing health conditions or charging sick people more for individual or small group plans.

[Gredival]

Sure did take a lot of paragraphs to get to this:

The ACA Repeal attempts come back to life more than Jean Grey. The GOP will definitely get rid of it if they can.

[Talint]

I wanted to see more. If LexisNexis had health risk scores on me, I wanted to see how they were calculated and, more importantly, whether they were accurate. But the company told me that if it had calculated my scores it would have done so on behalf of their client, my insurance company. So, I couldn’t have them.

When the hell did LexisNexis become so evil lol.

I remember them being a fucking search service for libraries.

[Gredival]

When the hell did LexisNexis become so evil lol.

I remember them being a fucking search service for libraries.

I mean they are the primary resource for lawyers so...

[Talint]

Alright. Fair play. I laughed at that.

[Fiye]

https://twitter.com/GideonResnick/st...39214346145792

62+ House Members joining in the Medicare for All caucus.

[Yuri-G]

I'd do young Richard Nixon, but a lot of the young awful leaders of our time were hot so IDK that's not surprising

Spoiler: show

I mean look at this shit right here come on now

[6souls]

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/26/63201...-health-crisis

On average, there are 60 suicides a day in the U.S. and up to 80% of all gun deaths are suicides.

[Fiye]

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/ne...fety/546889002

The vast majority of women in America give birth without incident. But each year, more than 50,000 are severely injured. About 700 mothers die. The best estimates say that half of these deaths could be prevented and half the injuries reduced or eliminated with better care.

Instead, the U.S. continues to watch other countries improve as it falls behind. Today, this is the most dangerous place in the developed world to give birth.

[Boyiee]

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/ne...fety/546889002

Thanks, wife's due in December with our first.

Friend of ours had a kid last year, she's extremely petite and under 115lbs. The epideral didn't take thinking it was due to anatomy or dosage so they tried it again, she lost feeling from her waist down for the rest of the day and her BP spiked super high. She's a nurse too and was freaking out.

[archibaldcrane]

The libertarian/Koch brothers-funded think tank Mercatus published a study on Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All plan, and found that it would save Americans over 2 trillion dollars over the next 10 years while covering everybody.

Spoiler: show

of course, that conclusion isn't what they are going to tout about the report

https://jacobinmag.com/2018/07/medic...-center-report

[zoobernut]

The libertarian/Koch brothers-funded think tank Mercatus published a study on Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All plan, and found that it would save Americans over 2 trillion dollars over the next 10 years while covering everybody.

https://jacobinmag.com/2018/07/medic...-center-report

Thats kind of a big deal for the support of a single payer system isn't it? I mean the Koch Bro's are GOP donors number 1? Seems like this could change the conversation.

Edit: Just read the whole article now I get it. They are burying the enormous positive aspect and showcasing the cost to the federal government as a negative while also ignoring increased revenue due to increased taxes specifically for health care. Still though the amount that everyone would save on health care is not trivial and it would increase the spending power of everyone in the country without increasing wages and costs to businesses. Seems like that would be a pretty big boost to quality of life and the economy.

[6souls]

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/0...ct-like-opioid

Ketamine found to contain the same effects of fentanyl and oxycodone in early tests. Still not conclusive.

"We think ketamine is acting as an opioid," says Alan Schatzberg, one of the study's authors and a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford. "That's why you're getting these rapid effects."

The new study's findings suggests that taking ketamine for depression could lead to abuse or addiction, says Schatzberg, who has financial ties to several drug companies. Ketamine has a less potent effect on opioid receptors than drugs like fentanyl or oxycodone, he says, "but that doesn't mean it's safer."

"The results are quite intriguing," says Carlos Zarate, an investigator at the National Institute of Mental Health who has been studying ketamine's effects on depression for more than a decade. "However, this study is preliminary and its results need to be replicated."

The new study is "interesting and exciting," says Ronald Duman, a professor of psychiatry and neurobiology at Yale who has published research showing how ketamine causes brain cells to form new connections.