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Doctors dump health insurance plans, charge patients less, charging cash

A Kansas physician says he makes the same income and offers better quality care to his patients after he dumped all health insurance companies.


Thirty-two-year old family physician Doug Nunamaker of Wichita, Kan., said after five years of dealing with the red tape of health insurance companies and the high overhead for the staff he hired just to deal with paperwork, he switched to a system of charging his patients a monthly fee plus the price of an office visit or test, CNN/Money reported.


For example, under Nunamaker's membership plan -- also known as "concierge" medicine or "direct primary care" practices -- each patient pays a flat monthly fee to have unlimited access to the doctors and any medical service they can provide in the practice, such as stitches or an EKG.


For adults up to age 44, Nunamaker charges $50 a month, pediatric services are $10 a month, and for adults age 44 and older it costs $100 a month. Although Nunamaker calls the practice "cash-only," he accepts credit and debit cards for the fees and services.


Nunamaker and his partner negotiated deals for services outside the office. A cholesterol test costs the patient for $3, versus the $90 or more billed to insurance companies; an MRI can cost $400, compared with $2,000 or more billed to insurance companies.  (continue reading at Breitbart)

 

On a side note:

Despite a shortage of U.S. primary care doctors, less than 25 percent of new doctors go into this field, and fewer still work in rural areas, researchers say.  (continue at Breitbart)

 

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Eyeball-licking fetish causing eye-chlamydia and conjunctivitis

Eyeball-licking, a/k/a worming, or oculolinctus, is an eye-licking fetish that is currently sweeping across the schools of Japan like, well, like a great big dirty bacteria-coated tongue sweeping across a horrific number of adolescent eyeballs, writes Shortcuts Blog at the Guardian.  Here's an excerpt:

 

The popularity of the bizarre practice, sometimes called 'worming', has been blamed for a rise in cases of conjunctivitis. 

And it freaks us out just to think about it.

Sometimes known as "worming" – which somehow makes this whole thing worse – oculolinctus is being blamed for a significant rise in Japanese cases of conjunctivitis and eye-chlamydia, which is actually a thing. It's apparently seen as a new second-base; the thing you graduate to when kissing gets boring.

The craze is thought to stem from a music video by Japanese emo band Born (there's a chance that the eyeball-licking scene was only included to distract everyone from the fact that the song sounds like it belongs on a menu screen for an EA Sports game about snowboarding from a decade ago, but at this point that's just speculation).

Tumblr, inevitably, is filling up with drawings and unnecessarily close-up photographs of the act, and YouTube is no stranger either. One theory about why it has taken off so spectacularly is down to the sheer number of nerve endings in the cornea. The eyeballs are incredibly sensitive because they need to detect grit and other small particles, and the sensation of oculolinctus is supposedly akin to that of toesucking.

Unwilling to try it myself – because my tongue isn't long enough, I don't want eye-chlamydia and just writing about this has made me retch...

Continue reading the article at the Shortcuts Blog at the Guardian.

 

More from ABC:

Dr. Robert Cykiert,  an associate professor in the department of ophthalmology at the New York University Langone Medical Center, said the surface of a healthy eye is normal mostly sterile, while the mouth is filled with bacteria and food particles.  [snip]

“[People] may have scarring of the cornea that can be permanent depending on the bacteria in germs … it may cause a perforation or hole to develop,” said Cykiert, who has had to give some patients with corneal ulcers a cornea transplant.

 

Eyeball Licking can really be scary:

(image via Cheezburger).

 

 

Intersex

 The Australian government has announced new guidelines on gender recognition which state that individuals should be given the option of selecting "male", "female" or "intersex" on their personal documents, according to reports.

I'm reminded of the Saturday Night Live character Pat, who when asked in an application for sex, Pat responded, "Please!"

However there are problems with using the term 'intersex', rather than Lesbian, Bi-sexual, Gay, Transgender, whatever.  Intersex is defined as anatomical anomaly, a birth defect one might say:

 

“Intersex” is a general term used for a variety of conditions in which a person is born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t seem to fit the typical definitions of female or male. For example, a person might be born appearing to be female on the outside, but having mostly male-typical anatomy on the inside. Or a person may be born with genitals that seem to be in-between the usual male and female types—for example, a girl may be born with a noticeably large clitoris, or lacking a vaginal opening, or a boy may be born with a notably small penis, or with a scrotum that is divided so that it has formed more like labia. Or a person may be born with mosaic genetics, so that some of her cells have XX chromosomes and some of them have XY.

Though we speak of intersex as an inborn condition, intersex anatomy doesn’t always show up at birth. Sometimes a person isn’t found to have intersex anatomy until she or he reaches the age of puberty, or finds himself an infertile adult, or dies of old age and is autopsied. Some people live and die with intersex anatomy without anyone (including themselves) ever knowing.  (Intersex Society of North America)

 

I'm not sure if the United States will follow Australia's lead on this.  Perhaps having a box where an individual could check "male", "female" or "other" would be best?  Just asking.  I realize that the majority of citizens in the world are being forced to go along with all these gender-related immoran changes in society, whether we want to or not.  Majority does not rule any longer, especially here in the U.S.

 

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said the new guidelines, which come into operation from July 1, will make it simpler for people to establish or change their sex or gender in personal records held by federal government departments and agencies.

"We recognise individuals may identify, and be recognised within the community, as a gender other than the gender they were assigned at birth or during infancy, or as an indeterminate gender," Dreyfus said in a statement Thursday.  (more at France24)

 

I think the Left is pushing the LGBTQ and now Intersex agenda onto the majority of this nation, including indoctrinating our children from their earliest years onward.  This is a very scary situation.

Nine year-old twins Zea and Luna introduce President Barack Obama at the White House's LGBT Pride Month celebration Thursday, June 13.  What were 9 year old children doing at an LGBT Pride celebration at the White House in the first place?  Using children as props again for their vile agenda.  Video and comments at Breitbart.

 

 

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Spreading From Saudi Arabia

World Health Organization concerned about a new SARS-like virus,  Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus [MERS-CoV],  with an unofficial tally of 50 cases with 30 deaths, for a case-fatality rate of 60%,  while countries, organizations, and businesses bicker over ownership of virus -- regarding sample sharing, patents, and profits from products derived from viral discovery.

Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, closed the annual World Health Assembly this week [May 27] sounding alarm about a new SARS-like virus circulating primarily in Saudi Arabia.

"My greatest concern right now is the novel coronavirus," Chan warned the representatives of two hundred nations gathered in Geneva. "We do not know where the virus hides in nature. We do not know how people are getting infected. Until we answer these questions, we are empty-handed when it comes to prevention."

But impeding an effective response is a dispute over rights to develop a treatment for the virus. The case brings to the fore a growing debate over International Health Regulations, interpretations of patent rights, and the free exchange of scientific samples and information. Meanwhile, the epidemic has already caused forty-nine cases in seven countries, killing twenty-seven of them.

At the center of the dispute is a Dutch laboratory that claims all rights to the genetic sequence of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus [MERS-CoV]. Saudi Arabia's deputy health minister, Ziad Memish, told the WHO meeting that "someone"--a reference to Egyptian virologist Ali Zaki--mailed a sample of the new SARS-like virus out of his country without government consent in June 2012, giving it to Dutch virologist Ron Fouchier of Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam.

"The virus was sent out of the country and it was patented, contracts were signed with vaccine companies and anti-viral drug companies, and that's why they have a MTA [Material Transfer Agreement] to be signed by anybody who can utilize that virus, and that should not happen," Memish said.

Though Memish referred to a "patent," the Dutch team has not patented the viral genetic sequence but has placed it under an MTA, which requires sample recipients to contractually agree not to develop products or share the sample without the permission of Erasmus and the Fouchier laboratory. Memish said that the Dutch MTA was preventing Saudi Arabia from stopping the MERS-CoV outbreak, which appears to have started eleven months ago in the Eastern part of his country. The Dutch team denies the MTA is slowing work on the outbreak, saying it has given virus samples to any lab that has requested it.

Courts in North America and Europe have ruled that it is possible to patent life forms or their genetic sequences, spurring the practice of claiming patent control on newly identified microoganisms.

 (continue reading at Council on Foreign Relations, Author: Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health)

 

Rationing or denial of health care coverage for pre-existing conditions begins...

And so it begins:

(CNSNews.com) – A pre-existing condition health insurance program established by Obamacare is already straining its own budget and, to control costs, the administration’s Health and Human Services Department (HHS) has stopped enrolling any new people in the program, according to an audit by the General Accountability Office (GAO).

In addition, to further control spending, HHS has directed the program to shift more of the costs onto the current enrollees, thus raising the out-of-pocket health care expenses for the people with pre-existing conditions.

“Finally, due to growing concerns about the rate of PCIP [Pre-existing Condition Insurance Program] spending, in February 2013, CCIIO [under HHS] suspended PCIP enrollment to ensure the appropriated funding would be sufficient to cover claims for current enrollees through the end of the program,” states the GAO report, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Enrollment and Spending in the Early Retiree Reinsurance and Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan Programs.

The rationing or denial of health care coverage in the marketplace for people with pre-existing conditions, or insurers charging higher premiums to people with pre-existing conditions were among the reasons cited by President Barack Obama and most congressional Democrats for implementing Obamacare, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.  (hat tip Weasle Zippers)

 

 

Grinding up fetus parts in garbage disposal gets you ... probation

Via LifeNews:

Abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell’s sister-in-law was sentenced in court today for her role in the House of Horrors abortion clinic that eventually resulted in Gosnell’s conviction on multiple murder counts.

The gruesomeness of what happened at the clinic was not limited to Gosnell, but extended to his staff — some of whom were family members.

Elizabeth Hampton testified that it was it was part of her cleaning duties to dispose of the large bottle on the suction machine that would fill with blood and fetal remains. She would pour the blood and baby parts into the sink and grind them up using the garbage disposal.

Hampton was intimately involved the night Gosnell killed Karnamaya Mongar in a botched abortion. But, as Philadelphia Inquirer courts reporter Joseph Slobodzian reports today, she merely received probation for perjury and was praised by the judge in the case for testifying against Gosnell himself.

Keep reading…

Via Weasle Zippers, who says "One day she’ll answer to a higher authority".

Keep in mind that there are laws that deal with the disposal of any human tissue, blood, etc. and under those laws an aborted fetus is considered medical waste.  Yet those working with Gosnell ground up this 'medical waste' in the kitchen sink, which means it and all the rest of the medical waste from his clinic probably (eventually) ended up in the public water supply.

The Gosnell clinic is located in Philadelphia (via DeathRoe)

Tissues obtained from abortions not subject to paragraph (8) shall be refrigerated, frozen, submersed in a proper preservative solution, and transported to a hospital, laboratory or incinerator on a regular basis for disposition. -- Pennsylvania Code , 28 Pa. Code §  29.38

 

From the National Abortion Federation (NAF) (via DeathRoe)

Fetal Tissue Disposal,  NAF 2006 Clinical Policy Guidelines

The improper disposal of tissue can lead to spread of infectious disease, and can increase the risk of theft or misplacement of tissue. Because of the possible infectious nature of tissue removed during the abortion procedure, guidelines for proper fetal tissue disposal are established.

Standard 1:

All surgically removed tissue must be considered biohazardous and be disposed of in accordance with applicable local, state, and federal regulations. A proper protocol for tissue disposal must be in place.

 Who knew there was such an organization as the NationL Abortion Federation? 

As to Gosnell's wife and other employees, USAToday reports that Pearl Gosnell was like "Mrs. Frankenstein", yet she too may get away with only probation.

Pearl Gosnell, 51, has spent two years on house arrest and could be sent to prison Wednesday for racketeering and performing an illegal abortion. Her husband, Dr. Kermit Gosnell, had turned down a plea offer that would have let her keep their house and stay home on probation with their teenage daughter. [snip]

 

Lynda Williams, 44, was trying to raise four children after her husband was killed. Sherry West, 53, had been waiting more than a year for disability after contracting hepatitis C at a Veterans Administration Hospital, where she had been a medical assistant for 20 years.

And Adrienne Moton, 36, had moved in with the Gosnells in high school because of family problems, then gone to work at the clinic for about $10 an hour.

Each woman faces up to 20 to 40 years in prison for third-degree murder but could get far less time after testifying against Gosnell.

"He had a bit of Svengali control over these women," said lawyer Michael Wallace, who represents West. "She was doing about 100 different things for this guy. It was such a hectic operation."

Gosnell had West and Williams — both medical assistants suffering from depression — and a teenager on duty delivering anesthesia the night the patient died of an overdose of painkillers, according to trial testimony. Gosnell was also charged with violating federal drug laws, and is scheduled to plead guilty to those charges June 6.

"He preyed upon them, too, just as he did his patients," Assistant District Attorney Joanne Pescatore said last week. "They were used and abused."

Gosnell had taught Moton and others to "snip" the necks of babies delivered during unorthodox abortions, often before he arrived for work. Moton thought it was standard procedure, and performed the technique at least 10 times, according to her testimony.

"I kept doing whatever I was told," Moton told the jury.

 

 

New Poll: Gosnell Trial Shifted Public Opinion Toward Pro-Life

Via Jeff Dunetz, The Lid:

The good news is that those who saw media reports of the Gosnell trial lean more pro-life than before, the bad news is that thanks to media bias not many people saw a media report.

According to an Investors Business Daily/TIPP poll only 24% of total adults saw news coverage of the trial of Kermit Gosnell but 42% of those who saw news stories regarding the trial of the Abortionist say they now lean more toward pro-life views than pro-choice views.

"The media's downplaying of this story was clearly reflected in the poll results," according to Raghavan Mayur, president of TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence, which conducted the survey.

Those who did see or read media reports of the trial were far likelier to be affected in the pro-life direction. Only 14% said that because of the trial, they now lean more toward pro-choice views.

Those whose view was not changed one way or the other by the Gosnell trial totaled a sizable 41% — almost as many as those affected in the pro-life direction.

Interestingly the poll showed very little difference between Men (43%) and Women (40%) shifting toward pro life.

A majority of those with some college — 57% — lean more toward pro-life because of the trial, while 33% of those holding a degree swerved in that direction.

Perhaps some of the future investigations will will receive more coverage, for example Houston abortionist Douglas Karpen 

Houston doctor Douglas Karpen is accused by four former employees of delivering live fetuses during third-trimester abortions and killing them by either snipping their spinal cord, stabbing a surgical instrument into their heads or 'twisting their heads off their necks with his own bare hands'.

Other times the fetus was so big he would have to pull it out of the womb in pieces, Karpen's ex-assistant, Deborah Edge, said in an Operation Rescue video, which has prompted a criminal investigation into the doctor.

'Sometimes he couldn't get the fetus out... he would yank pieces – piece by piece – when they were oversize,' Edge explained.

Karpen and others like him are being investigated. Sadly there are many more Like Karpen and  Gosnell to help sway public opinion.

(posted with permission, see other fine articles by Jeff here)

 

Gosnell guilty of murder

A jury has found abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell guilty of three counts of first degree murder of babies after deliberating for 10 days on the case.

Prosecutors are expected to now seek the death penalty for Gosnell.

The 72 year old was charged with killing four premature babies by severing their spinal cords after they were born alive in his Philadelphia clinic. He was acquitted of one of those charges and convicted in three. Gosnell was also found guilty in the accidental death of a patient who died after receiving an abortion, and a lethal mix of sedatives and painkillers at his clinic.  (continue at Yahoo)

‘Rot in hell’: Gosnell found guilty of first-degree murder, citizens applaud justice served

Disgraceful NYT on Gosnell’s living, breathing victims: ‘Fetuses … removed from their mothers’

 

UN solution to starvation: Eat more bugs

 A U.N. food agency is pushing a new kind of diet for a hungry world. It ranks high in nutritional value and gets good grades for protecting the environment: edible insects.

The Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization on Monday hailed the likes of grasshoppers, ants and other members of the insect world as an underutilized food for people, livestock and pets.

(continue at Fox News, see video)

Senate Democrats Block Resolution Condemning Gosnell Abortion Murders…

Via Weasel Zippers:

Abortion being the closest thing the left has to religion.

Via Daily Caller:

Democratic senators offered objections to Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee’s Gosnell resolution Wednesday, responding with their own resolution to condemn illegal activities in all health-care settings.

Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee attempted to bring his resolution to express “the sense of the Senate that Congress and the States should investigate and correct abusive, unsanitary, and illegal abortion practices” to the floor Wednesday afternoon for consideration under unanimous consent.

Lee’s resolution highlights the alleged crimes of Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell, currently awaiting judgment on more than 250 charges, including first-degree murder in the deaths of four babies born alive in attempted abortions and third-degree murder for the death of a woman from a drug overdose during an abortion.

Connecticut Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal objected to Lee’s resolution, which focuses on abortion crimes, and offered his own resolution with California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer and New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen condemning “all incidents of abusive, unsanitary, or illegal healthcare practices.”

“I believe this problem is broader than the one cited in [Lee's] resolution,” Blumenthal said.

Keep reading…

 

Also see: 

Media Stories On Gay NBA Player Outnumber Gosnell Trial 20-To-1…