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Our medical insurance policy is with Cigna. We’re on the Open Access Plus plan. After I renewed my Cigna policy recently, I got our new insurance cards, and noticed that the premiums and copays increased as follows:
PCP Visit ($20 vs $15)
Specialist ($40 vs $30)
Hospital ER ($100 vs $50)
Urgent Care ($50 vs $25)
Rx ($10/25/50 vs $10/20/45)
Those [...]
» Go to this postIt’s my grandfather’s birthday today. He died just a couple of weeks ago after a painful struggle with mesothelioma, a form of cancer caused by asbestos exposure.
He’d been coughing for a few years. It was a persistent cough, but it wasn’t a severe cough. He coughed here and there, and especially after he came into [...]
When it launched a few weeks ago, Google Health received fairly lackluster reviews. Privacy issues and lack of features were the main complaints. Well, I’m here to tell you those initial views are wrong.
Even if you’re a long-time reader of my site, you may not know what qualifies me to make that statement, so let [...]
I have a cold. I’ve battled it through the weekend. It started to get to me on Friday, and it really hit me on Sunday morning. It’s now Tuesday evening, and while the fevers, sweating and malaise are on their way out, I’ve got a nasty cough, which is only getting worse. The only thing [...]
» Go to this postThe following open letter from Dr. Sanford Siegel, President of the Chesapeake Urology Associates, to Rep. Henry Waxman (R-CA), was pointed out to me this morning. I asked Dr. Siegel’s permission to post it in its entirety on ComeAcross, and he agreed. I’m struck by how true this letter rings. My father is a doctor. [...]
» Go to this postWith the world population expected to reach 9 billion by 2050, many countries, in particular the developing ones, are facing a big budget shortage when it comes to providing adequate healthcare for their citizens. Most of the population increase is projected in the countries where healthcare is already a problem, and this, coupled with the [...]
» Go to this postMonster.com has an article which details the pitfalls that await patients and healthcare workers when personal beliefs intersect with medical care. Some state laws are widening this intersection as well. The article offers potential solutions to the problem.
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The seller was going to send it by priority mail but I requested...