The Smell of Quackery

I’ll post the last part of The Healthcare Meltdown later this week, but meanwhile a quick post that deserves your attention. What’s worse than a product that has never been shown to have any benefit whatsoever?  A product that has never been shown to have any benefit whatsoever and has serious side-effects. Last week the FDA warned that Zicam zinc-containing nasal cold-remedies have been implicated in over 130 cases of long lasting or permanent loss of smell.  (Here’s a fun new word for you.  ...
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The Healthcare Meltdown – Part I

How Insurance Works For many families healthcare is increasingly expensive while simultaneously increasingly mediocre.  A recent study in the American Journal of Medicine found that two thirds of bankruptcies were due in part to medical expenses, and surprisingly, over three quarters of the individuals going bankrupt had health insurance.  There is no denying that the American healthcare marketplace is broken.  The problem for many of us is that we don’t know enough hi...
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