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Vinnie's avatar

Ex's father-in law...

a self-made millionaire. He NEVER agreed with insurance. Carried the MINIMUM required to own a business, carried Workers Comp. insurance for his employees etc. For personal healthcare insurance he retained a separate bank account. He would comment on how his peers were wasting money vacationing, cruising, saying they need save that money for their health. He paid cash for his heart surgery and meds, always negotiating with Dr.'s, pharmacies, hospitals and the like.

Sadly those days are gone...

soon, all will be electronic digitized monetary system negotiating prices for services a passing dream....

One will either get healt-care or be left at a curb...

These great conglomerate Holistic Health- Care 'Malls" will be shut down on pretense...

HUGE potential for quacks, sorcery, and witchdoctors for the young and uninitiated....

Make a personal healthcare library...mom ALWAYS had a medical book handy...

As a youth brothers and sisters and I were allowed to take it off the shelf if home sick...

Our generation has no idea how to negotiate or fight battles, most folks I befriend are working iin careers and for companies they don't enjoy because they need...'Insurance'...

Healthcare insurance for the medciatons they all firmly believe they NEED because a person in a white coat says they do. They trust without question, grow offended and angry at a practicioner that tells them they are obese, overweight, unhappy...SO...

Give them what they WANT...

A pill, a shot, another pill, another shot...

new name for the 'common cold'...

another name for the common cold...

a new injection to really prevent illnesss, well no, not that one...but an additional one, no wait...

P.T. Barnum: "A sucker is born every minute."

Has Mr. Barnums observation changed one iota?

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BetterOffRed's avatar

Merck Manual was always handy in my mom's library growing up. Bought a used one (Physicians Desk Reference) from my doctor three years ago when he bought a newer edition. (2010 edition; it's still revelent with proper drug-class-family listings for treating which particular condition e.g. fungi-parasite-bacteria-viral, so i can use trade names to search generics. Then the YUGE five minute alloted APPT to discuss my illness w/doc is meaningful to me, to avoid racking up extra screening tests)

or, you can check booksellers for Home edition of Merck manual.

My newest self-ed is learning more naturopath solutions.

MY DOCTOR knows less about WuFlu, the jab, testing, published studies, and statisical world repercussions than I. He's too busy. *sigh*

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