Health junction

Up close and personal with the U.S. Health Care Trauma System October 16, 5:17 P.M. I received the call, �Your son has been hit by a car. �At this point everything slowed down inside my head and all noise from the outside world was muffled. First, I breathe and then ask, is he conscious? Thankfully, he was alert according to the paramedic on the scene. He was being transferred to the local hospital emergency room for further treatment. By this time it is too late to make it down to the 5:30 ferry, so I was relegated to the 6:45, which means I wasn�t on the beach to see my son until 7:45P.M. I gave the paramedic my information and called the hospital giving them my E.T.A. Traumatic Brain Injury 8:00 P.M. I arrive at the local hospital, a 262 bed facility with a Level III Trauma Center, and immediately found my teenager in the E.R. The treating physician informed me that he had multiple fractures, on his head and leg, the most worrisome of which was the skull fracture. (My son had just ...

A few months ago I wrote an article entitled Why We Don�t Want to Get Rid of Medicare, Our Best Tool For Health Care Reform which alluded to Republican attempts to �block grant� both Medicare and Medicaid programs and Mitt Romney, Republican Presidential Candidate stated as much in his debate with Presidential Obama last night. To the one person who questioned the validity of my previous article, please feel free to eat crow now. This piece reviews the 2010 health care reforms that Mr. Romney would eradicate, based on his debate comments. Medicaid Romney indicated there is broad based support to have the federal government just give state governments money to administer their own Medicaid programs for low income residents, without government mandates. Sure, who wouldn�t want more money to meet a social need, without strings attached? The problem with this is the federal government is funded by all states and all residents and not merely a few, though as Mr. Romney has suggested 47% of...

Supreme Court Ruling on Health Care Reform-Impact on the 47% Presidential Candidate,   Mitt Romney has identified the 47% of the country�s population which he doesn�t care about and this article addresses how the Supreme Court rulings on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will impact �their� access to Medicaid and subsidized health care through the insurance exchanges in 2012. This article will also inform health care administrators in various government and nonprofit agencies who will be implementing the law. Additionally, business owners should have an understanding of the eligibility rules for the subsidized insurance plans, as, unbeknownst to Mr. Romney; people in the �47%� can actually have jobs and not have any health insurance. So, to all of you people out there who are working either part-time or full-time or unemployed, read on to learn what your options will be in 2014, assuming the health care reforms are not dismantled. Supreme Court Ruling on Health Care R...

Assault on Women�s Health Revisited with Senator Akin, leaving the Republican Party Belly-aching Though the memory of the 2011 Republican attempts to redefine the rape of an unconscious woman as a noncriminal activity and thus not rape, are still etched in my memory, the party continues to horrify the nation with its Neanderthal postulations. The latest assertion came from Senator Akin from Missouri, who stated that women are unlikely to get pregnant in a true rape situation, because the woman�s Zen warrior vagina is able to battle the offending sperm from penetrating her nubile eggs.   OK, Akin didn�t say that part, but I thought I would add some humor to the situation.   Once again we seem to have a Republican senatorial candidate who still wants to redefine rape, so this ugly issue has not been vanquished.    In the interest of refining the conversation by adding some facts, this article will address actual data on rape, biology, and national data on abortion se...