Maryland Heights residents fight proposed rehab center
(KSDK) – The fight is on in Maryland Heights to keep a psychiatric and substance abuse treatment facility from opening. That center has a famous name attached to it. A healthcare company from Florida is partnering with former baseball star Darryl …
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Folsom man fights for clinical cancer drug trial to keep his wife alive
"We've kind of known there's no chance of her surviving," Mikaela's husband, Keith, said. Besides being by her side, Keith has spent the months since the diagnosis asking major drug companies to include Mikaela in clinical trials for new cancer treatments.
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Question by Taylor: Are there many unanswered questions about a Health Care bill that’s about to become ” Law “?
Will the current Bill do any of the following:
1. Allow me to build my own policy and not have to pay for things I don’t need or will never use?
( My sons and I will never need a pap smear, nor give birth, don’t want a hair transplant and will never use the alcohol/drug rehab plan) Yet I am forced to pay for that coverage because of law makers. This vastly increases costs)
2. Do anythin at all to lower the cost of Malpractic Insurance (One of my Dr pays 70,000 / year for liability coverage which is covered by his fees) ( Trial lawyers have nothing to lose. Most cases get settled no matter how ridiculous because the lawyers never have to pay court or legal fees. Easy Fix = Loser Pays all court and legal fees of both parties) That 70,000 will be drastically reduced, and the cost savings passed on.)
3. Lower my monthly premium ?
How can it when Ins companies are now required to cover more people, even with pre-existing conditions. Premiums can only go up. And they are forced to cover basic stuff like minor doctors visits when people should be able to pay for that out of pocket.
Other questions about this “reform”
4. If they are required to cover pre-existing conditions, what prevents people from canceling coverage all together and using the money saved for basic medical care? Then get the insurance only when/if you need major medical care?
5. What will happen when Ins companies go out of business? ( See above question) Will the Gov option be the only option?
6. When the gov has control of how much a doctor or a hospital can make per procedure, what will that do to the number of people willing to enter the Medical field as a profession.
6-B God Forbid, but what if Doctors are forced to join a Gov Union like the SEIU ?
7. (Combined with above) When adding 30 million more people to the system thereby vastly increasing demand, how will the supply side look?
8. When supply gets overwhelmed with demand,how can rationing be avoided?
9. What will happen to our coverage when the government decides it needs to “reign in costs”.
10. What “life-style laws” will be passed in the name of “protecting us” from ourselves?
11. Why can’t people “shop for the best price” like they would anything else.
12. Why will we begin paying for this “reform” next year, but the “benefits” won’t be available until 2013?
Best answer:
Answer by towwwdothello
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/warcrimetrials/comment_post.php
Answer by Milk Cow
13. Where will some of the Insurance Executives be working if they get laid off or fire……. ?
New Jersey's heroin crisis worsens
In 2012, there were more than 8,300 admissions to state-certified substance abuse treatment programs for prescription drug abuse — an increase of nearly 700 percent over the past decade. The Governor's Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse received the …
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Colts owner enters treatment center following arrest
A three-sentence statement released Tuesday said Irsay on Monday had "voluntarily checked into a highly-respected health care facility and is committed to undergoing the treatment and care necessary to help him meet his challenges head-on." Irsay was …
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Blumenthal, Murphy call for action on heroin deaths
The pair announced their ideas to tackle the state's dramatic increase in heroin-related overdose deaths during a press conference at a substance abuse treatment center in Hartford. Other parts of their five-point plan include supporting increased …
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Presciption drug abuse 'prep school for heroin'
A. Thomas McLellan, CEO and co-founder of the Treatment Research Institute, said prescription drug abuse is “now recognized as a national epidemic.” McLellan, the former science adviser and deputy director of the White House Office of National Drug …
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Battling the beast at the door
Getting him into a methadone treatment facility was nearly impossible, with months' long waiting lists and high costs. In July 2011, he tried to … Sally Kalb also detailed her daughter's fight to overcome drug abuse and treatment options. “I …
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Is substance abuse coverage as equal as required?
Insurance plans that cover substance abuse treatment must provide the same level of care and cost sharing as they do for other medical issues, but treatment centers say disagreement over what this means leaves many alcoholics and drug addicts without …
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Addiction begins easily; recovery takes effort
“Methadone treatment is 100 percent voluntary,” said Victoria Charleston, director of addiction at Edgewater Systems at The Turning Point building, which is the organization's addiction services center, at 1110 W. 5th Ave. in Gary. “Addiction is a …
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State unveils easier access to overdose-reversing drug
In addition, officials plan to distribute that drug, naloxone, at opiate addiction treatment centers and make it available on ambulances. Eventually the state wants to allow doctors to prescribe Narcan to patients who would be able to pick it up at the …
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Hazelden-Betty Ford Center Psychologist Tapped to Lead Colorado Treatment …
… Hazelden-Betty Ford Foundation and Hazelden Graduate School of Addiction Studies, has been chosen as the new Chief Clinical Officer (CCO) of Harmony Foundation, Colorado's longest running residential alcohol and drug addiction treatment center.
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Pregnant women's rights under attack? Legislation, conference address concerns
Three of those states — Wisconsin, Minnesota, and South Dakota — allow pregnant women to be forced into mental health or substance abuse treatment facilities. “It's absolutely insane what happened to her,” Taylor said. “They treated her like a criminal.
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Mercer to treat criminals for substance abuse
PRINCETON — Mercer County is among 10 localities to be included in a new select program that will offer community-based substance abuse treatment to people on probation, parole and supervised release. Phase 1 of the pilot program seeks to engage …
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Substance abuse: Pilot initiative will help Mercer
That's why we welcome the recent announcement of a new pilot program that will offer community-based substance abuse treatment to people on probation, parole and supervised release in nine southern West Virginia counties, including Mercer. Phase 1 of …
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West Virginia prepares to offer community-based substance abuse treatment
West Virginia is preparing to launch a select program that will offer community-based substance abuse treatment to people on probation, parole and supervised release. Starting in nine counties, this pilot comes from the Justice Reinvestment Act of 2013 …
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