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syl, I am a people
extel, it actually isnt. for injury problems look at TBI's
CDC says there are 2 million head injuries a year. over thirty years thats 60 million people have difficulty living and voting and making decisions.
a lot of these are sports related. it costs a fortune
and that doenst include knees backs elbows shoulders etc.
could gary lose weight and stop his diabetes. theoretically, but in practice it just doesnt happen. it seems to be a mostly one way street unless caught real early. would it be better for him to go on a 1500 calorie diet, probably, but for a lot of reasons its real tought to keep it up
diabetics make up 5-7 percent of the population even in places like malaysia. so its a lot trickier than to think its just yoru weight
ordinary, be careful. the guy witht he finger bit off was not aginst health reform, he was against hr3200.
one suggestion: remove the 7.5 percent AGI cap on medical expenses.
overnight you will have helped people enormously
at no administrative expense at all
then allow interstate commerce in insurance to occur, so you can pick a plan without acupuncture benefits
another big win for everyone, no adminstrative cost.
then eliminate docotr billing boondoggles, boom taht is 25 percent of yoru doctors bill, which is about 20 to 25 percent of the cost overall
then cap tort damages
if you did these 4 things, none of which the oboma anti health cre bill does, you will have gone a long way to help the nation at virtually no expense and no bigger govt
no syl, i am not french, german or italian. i am an american.
you have no training in making comparisons. i have tried to guide you, but you just will not listen.
you have to compare equivalent populations. like compare sweden with northern minnesota.
you cant just compare western europe to the usa. you could just as correctly compare the usa to argentina or uzbekistan
In fiscal year 2008, Medicaid outpatient drug spending was $9.3 billion
going to 2005, assuming a 10 percnet a year hike, this means spending in 2005 was around 7-8 billion
that means hiv drugs were 25 to 30 percent of the total medicaid prescriptiond drug bill
the amazing thing is that it is paid for by insurance.
the reason health insurance is so high is taht all sorts of things are passed by state and federal law to mandate that such and such must be paid for.
all innocuous.
but my health plan pays for massages, acupuncture, chiropracters, physical rehabilitation from sports injuries and all sorts fo things liek faith healing, aromatherapy and transvestites, and hiv. I can not buy a plan that doesnt cover these things.
hiv now costs the usa about 30,000 times 2 million or 60 billion dollars a year.
The total payment for antiretroviral drugs in the U.S. Medicaid Program increased from US$ 30.6 million in 1991 to US$ 1.6 billion in 2005, a 49.8-fold increase. In 2005, NRTIs as a class had the highest payment market share. These drugs alone accounted for US$ 787.9 million in Medicaid spending (50.8 percent of spending on antiretrovirals).
so what does obama do? blame the greedy companies who make a percentage of profits
paid for by the government and your health insurance premiums
education budgets are large becaue of federal and state regulation.
remove the regulations.
go back to a budget found in 1968 in adjusted dollars. that is the budget which produced the smartest schoolkids
syl, go talk to people. do what i said to do. If you have no connections seek out docotors and people on medicare. do some research. you could find a poll on the internet of people who still think elvis is alive or that cheney exploded planes into the pentagon . heck you could even find people in the whitehouse that think that
syl, do you have any old folks? do you have any doctors who practice in the family?
if you knew either grup of people, go talk to them about your suppositions about medicare. by the way obama just sliced out a huge chunk of medicare money.
what triggered the move at two oclock?
syl, most of the people in my town of ten thousand have never been active politically
but this year, almost all have been to local tea parties.
these are the facist morons you are talking about.
I am afraid that obama astroturfed all the people who came to his speeches theya re so aware of political trickery, that they can not see the truth
syl, that is just silly and you know it
or how about health care like at Cornell
guy goes to er, drops dead, they put him in the big freeze, remove the clot, and restart his heart. 45 minutes no pulse? story unclear, without brain damage
i wonder what his life year score was
syl, its your interpretations , its what you see and what others see. we both dont want an over the top, invasive federal government that controls every aspect of peoples lives. ask yourself if voting for your man all the time is going to get you there, and ask yourself if some of the facts the evil wingers present to you are true or not.
here is one: bush took away your freedom with the patriot act by spying on phone calls
Obama:
removed this horrible bush thing
or
made it worse.
which is correct?
z, you need to do some work. go to pubmed before you make any pronouncments about biology and medicine. i have given you many leads, follow them up.
see how much you know. test yourself. allow yourself to say that you can learn more
syl, did it ever occur to you that many of us hold the same beliefs as you do, the same desires for people, but we dont think of it as an us against them thing?
z4, i will bet you know absolutly nothing about what controls fat cells. most people dont.
go look up the following in pub med
thyroid
insulin
glucagon
ppar alpha
ppar beta
ppar gamma
bile acids
this is just a tiny start. the tiniest smidgen of knowledge.
when you are done, start showing how all of the above are interrelated by finding more papers.
edit yes, and he outlawed guns, had his media say a group wwere rabble rousers, and took over the banks and had socialized medical care, initiated a youth corp to do national service, summoned artists to make hitler art to help him, bussed in agitators that worked for him to cause trouble,, used his political office to make propaganda for him and support his causes.....
anything i am leaving out?
oh yes, he was a socialist who beleived in control of information
once again, it looks like we are running out of oil
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a44RUTBIl_3Q
many papers are open source now, you can read the actual studies and think about exptl design, whether the conclusions are accurate and aslo think about the findings
that is a very good suggestion
z4, if you want to know, follow my suggestions and go to pubmed
the answer:
http://www.fatburningfurnace.com/order.php
obama should make this a high priority
right, so now its health care spending that is the problem, or health care insurance companies, or illegal immigrants who dont have health care because everybody is selfish?
what is the problem? and the gubbermint can do it better, whatever the problem is?
dont you ahve to know the problem before you can fix it?
if youa re worried about bankrupting theusa, why not allow drilling in alaska and along the coasts so we can get more oil here and stop exporting 400 billion dollars a year.
dick appears to be the only one concerned with the united states and not the fierce moral urgency about the process of the united states as interpreted by charlie manson and bill ayers and his followers
you concerned with the usa?
some divergence on dailies on the short etf's. not changing any positions yet thogh
we are at a breaking point on indu
i think market will be slightly up tomorrow
z, you got to do the research at pub med, not on internet blogs. the more you resist, the more i think you dont want to know
z4, writing a college paper means you know absolutely nothing.
spending twenty hours searching for the answers to my questions to you will mean you will begin to learn something.
first you have to beleive you know nothing, like socrates said
start work. its not an easy subject.
20 years ago, a drug company paid 16 million dollars for the rights to leptin. the data was so good. they thought they knew a lot.
but they didnt realize that the animal model had a defect in the sodium transporter.
why not. because by that time the system will naturally adjust
z4 that is a cop out. I cant make you do the work though.
i dare you to find 3-4 studies with at least 100 pateints that say 90 percent of diabetics who are aged 50 to 65 who lose weight so that they are 90 percent of their obese BMI stop having diabetes for a period of 4 years.
and if you cant find them, how does that compute to you?
so its up to you to find out and test whether you are right. its all there before you: its at pubmed
syl, you want more data, look up hospital administrator salaries for your local hospitals. they have nothing to do with insurance, but often get paid ten times your local internist
pleaase go to pub med, start searching. you need to read and see for yourself. there are thousands of studies with no clear answers, depending on trial design. try looking for the studies that i suggested which might support your common wisdom
BUT, given common wisdom, wouldnt you think that these studies would be easy to do and would prove what you say?
that is what i am trying to get you to see and in order to understand you have to do the work.
for starters, what group of people have massively high cholesterosl, but do not get heart disease? what group of people eat fat all the time but are neither massively obese or get heart disease?
what group of people gets diabetes before weight gain?
its not data. its a political study with guesses. look at actual clinical data from studies in pubmed.
i think you will be surprised.
first thing for you to do. find studies that show the percentage of diabetics who lose significant amount of weight and have improved outcomes overa five year period.
find studies that show that diabetics who stop being obese stop having diabetes or the metabolic syndrome and who have followed these pateints for two years or more ( in percentages)
now look up life expectancy for the mildly obese, what does it protect.
syl, go look up ethnic data for europe vs the usa. this is really something to goes right to the heart of your brain. you just cant accept hard physical reality.
then look up average commute times and life style differences
i am asking you to honestly try to answer the question without making it up according to what is commonly thought. do the research, see what you find.
first off how do you define obesity: how have the insurance tables changed in thelast 60 years?
what differences between genetic body type are made in caclulation of BMI?
for obesity, what is the impact of race on effects such as the metabolic syndrome and obesity and cardiovascular disease. show me a good study that shows exercise is helpful for weightloss
i know these things seem against common wisdom, that is why its important to ask what appears to be true and why
are you kidding me? the genetic mix of the usa is completely different from western europe, and the lifestyle in terms of things like average commute time are completely different