tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503957686158274288.comments2024-03-12T12:32:15.598-05:00On Health Care Tech & PolicyMargalit Gur-Ariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08777722834145614546noreply@blogger.comBlogger891125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503957686158274288.post-18618110003760255582019-06-11T10:54:12.704-05:002019-06-11T10:54:12.704-05:00This comment has been hidden from the blog.BobbyGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03807934795994985233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503957686158274288.post-56260762211097010102019-06-11T09:42:35.358-05:002019-06-11T09:42:35.358-05:00This comment has been hidden from the blog.Margalit Gur-Ariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08777722834145614546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503957686158274288.post-38782992312359201042019-06-11T08:40:35.940-05:002019-06-11T08:40:35.940-05:00This comment has been hidden from the blog.BobbyGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03807934795994985233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503957686158274288.post-46283625390042220072019-06-06T07:29:10.552-05:002019-06-06T07:29:10.552-05:00You're hardly alone in that sentiment. :(You're hardly alone in that sentiment. :(BobbyGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03807934795994985233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503957686158274288.post-14046200736831266082019-06-05T20:36:02.306-05:002019-06-05T20:36:02.306-05:00:-) Feeling dark lately.....:-) Feeling dark lately.....Margalit Gur-Ariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08777722834145614546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503957686158274288.post-77023121094634940692019-06-05T19:25:37.849-05:002019-06-05T19:25:37.849-05:00Yikes.Yikes.BobbyGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03807934795994985233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503957686158274288.post-73197375083227410162019-05-23T21:31:16.283-05:002019-05-23T21:31:16.283-05:00You say, "We don’t know how to cure Alzheimer...You say, "We don’t know how to cure Alzheimer’s. We don’t know how to cure diabetes, kidney disease, heart disease and most cancers." Ah, but we do know how to prevent these diseases. Problem is, the science that identifies the causes is being ignored. For example, "Eicosanoids are major players in the pathogenesis of several common diseases, with either overproduction or imbalance (e.g. between thromboxanes and prostacyclins) often leading to worsening of disease symptoms. Both the total rate of eicosanoid production and the balance between eicosanoids with opposite effects are strongly dependent on dietary factors, such as the daily intakes of various eicosanoid precursor fatty acids, and also on the intakes of several antioxidant nutrients including selenium and sulphur amino acids. Even though the underlying biochemical mechanisms have been thoroughly studied for more than 30 years, neither the agricultural sector nor medical practitioners have shown much interest in making practical use of the abundant high-quality research data now available. In this article, we discuss some specific examples of the interactions between diet and drugs in the pathogenesis and therapy of various common diseases. We also discuss, using common pain conditions and cancer as specific examples, how a better integration between agricultural science, nutrition and pharmacology could lead to improved treatment for important diseases (with improved overall therapeutic effect at the same time as negative side effects and therapy costs can be strongly reduced). It is shown how an unnaturally high omega-6/omega-3 fatty acid concentration ratio in meat, offal and eggs (because the omega-6/omega-3 ratio of the animal diet is unnaturally high) directly leads to exacerbation of pain conditions, cardiovascular disease and probably most cancers. It should be technologically easy and fairly inexpensive to produce poultry and pork meat with much more long-chain omega-3 fatty acids and less arachidonic acid than now, at the same time as they could also have a similar selenium concentration as is common in marine fish. The health economic benefits of such products for society as a whole must be expected vastly to outweigh the direct costs for the farming sector." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3031257/<br /><br />There's good science out there that needs to be translated into practical usefulness. <br /><br /> <br /><br />David Brownhttp://nutritionscienceanalyst.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503957686158274288.post-23022368632847645792019-05-06T17:53:27.609-05:002019-05-06T17:53:27.609-05:00Thank you kindly, sir. :-)Thank you kindly, sir. :-)Margalit Gur-Ariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08777722834145614546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503957686158274288.post-16741843381851013042019-05-06T09:38:33.358-05:002019-05-06T09:38:33.358-05:00Wow. Just wow. Will be citing/linking at KHIT.org ...Wow. Just wow. Will be citing/linking at KHIT.org ASAP.BobbyGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03807934795994985233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503957686158274288.post-25126326757428226392019-04-27T16:24:06.600-05:002019-04-27T16:24:06.600-05:00Excellent!Excellent!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07382484521207927028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503957686158274288.post-2623559408873017222019-04-04T09:51:58.620-05:002019-04-04T09:51:58.620-05:00Arvind: If Medicaid paid docs like Medicare does, ...Arvind: If Medicaid paid docs like Medicare does, and if Medicaid were not only for the (undeserving) poor, Medicaid would be fine. My personal preference for "institutional reform" is more Medicaid-ish (locally managed group plans for counties or whatever geographical measures make sense) than Medicare-ish (continental scale, zero local responsibility -- which makes it much-loved by local politicians who want to avoid responsibility).<br /><br />Margalit: Somebody's got to supervise docs, and docs won't supervise each other as they used to. I've sometimes thought local medical schools should serve as the Medical Guilds -- a doc can choose one to be in, but s/he must be in one. There is such a thing as "too local" given fallen human nature: the old AMA/County Medical Association arrangement was abused, which is why it's gone. And you can't bill for running it.<br /><br />It's very good to see you writing again.Tom Leithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07787957132459123765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503957686158274288.post-79733996246694752682019-04-03T11:01:19.190-05:002019-04-03T11:01:19.190-05:00What if we restore Medicaid to what it used to be,...What if we restore Medicaid to what it used to be, without managed care take a piece out of every dollar for no good reason?<br /><br />We need to come to grips with the fact that a large segment of the population cannot afford to buy insurance, even when sponsored by employers, and some have no employers. What do we do with those folks? I am genuinely open to new ideas, and I agree that Medicaid as it is now, is an unmitigated disaster....Margalit Gur-Ariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08777722834145614546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503957686158274288.post-23697203500106745592019-04-02T21:01:46.207-05:002019-04-02T21:01:46.207-05:00Good thoughts. Sadly, Medicaid as currently implem...Good thoughts. Sadly, Medicaid as currently implemented, is an unmitigated disaster-most Medicaid enrollees don't have access to routine care. Expanding this Medicaid would be worse than throwing money down the gutter. The simplest solutions are 1) expand HRA's to all employers, 2) Allow AHP's or other group purchasing of insurance/medical care. Tax free money in individuals' pocket is the best way to bring transparency and competitiveness to the system. I agree with the rest of the ideas.Arvindhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05089988211202001835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503957686158274288.post-61053404610741369752019-03-17T15:50:10.375-05:002019-03-17T15:50:10.375-05:00Thanks, Bobby and thanks for the references. I wil...Thanks, Bobby and thanks for the references. I will certainly take a good look at them.<br /><br />And yes obviously you can cross post anytime... it's an honor. Thank you.Margalit Gur-Ariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08777722834145614546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503957686158274288.post-82772114994942868762019-03-17T15:37:48.312-05:002019-03-17T15:37:48.312-05:00Well, it was worth the wait. May I cross-post? I w...Well, it was worth the wait. May I cross-post? I will be otherwise spreading it far and wide.<br /><br />I'm starting to fret that NONE of this shit matters. None of it. Read Wallace-Wells'"The Uninhabitable Earth" and Frase's "Four Futures" -- in the latter of which Quadrant Four is "Scarcity + Hierarchy = Exterminism."<br /><br />BTW, jus' fer grins, I recently finished at review Seamus O'Mahony's "Can Medicine Be Cured?" You certainly punch at his level.BobbyGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03807934795994985233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503957686158274288.post-80088132284483386472019-03-15T01:50:05.597-05:002019-03-15T01:50:05.597-05:00Really good articleReally good articleGlamcrazzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14860710245079175109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503957686158274288.post-5922691306166514012019-03-14T23:17:16.437-05:002019-03-14T23:17:16.437-05:00You're starting to sound like Chesterton.
For...You're starting to sound like Chesterton.<br /><br />For each of us though, we're going to have to be in the same boat as at least 100,000 other people to make it work, and membership in one of these groups cannot be optional. The power won't be unlimited, but from your point of view when you're sick, it might as well be.Tom Leithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07787957132459123765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503957686158274288.post-48244913159704790362019-03-14T10:00:09.947-05:002019-03-14T10:00:09.947-05:00Perhaps.... But I don't think so. I have faith...Perhaps.... But I don't think so. I have faith that individuals want to do the right thing and will do the right thing as long as they lack the tools and temptation provided by unlimited power.<br /><br />I don't see any compelling reason to concentrate ever increasing power in fewer and fewer hands, that by definition are increasingly corrupt.Margalit Gur-Ariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08777722834145614546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503957686158274288.post-66123775934788954512019-03-14T08:55:22.933-05:002019-03-14T08:55:22.933-05:00Which means, I think, you've lost faith in peo...Which means, I think, you've lost faith in people to do the right thing for other people.<br /><br />There's no agreement now about what people are, hence no agreement about what the right thing to do for them is. It's a conundrum.Tom Leithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07787957132459123765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503957686158274288.post-38916757503986701122019-03-12T16:41:36.201-05:002019-03-12T16:41:36.201-05:00Give me a few more weeks. This was written a while...Give me a few more weeks. This was written a while ago. I do have plenty more to say.... It's coming.... :-)<br /><br />Essentially, I lost my trust in government to do the right thing for people. I mean just look around you.... Do you want these people to have a complete, irrevocable, monopoly on health care. Any of them???Margalit Gur-Ariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08777722834145614546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503957686158274288.post-91697752258507779912019-03-12T16:21:12.577-05:002019-03-12T16:21:12.577-05:00What happened to " We tried everything else, ...What happened to " We tried everything else, and now it’s time to do the right thing. It’s the American way."tooearlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17768562174718446511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503957686158274288.post-87115923881032125242019-03-11T22:20:18.337-05:002019-03-11T22:20:18.337-05:00Oh I don't know.... It's out of order. The...Oh I don't know.... It's out of order. The one coming tomorrow should have been first.<br />And I'll do what I think lies between burning and doing nothing :-)Margalit Gur-Ariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08777722834145614546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503957686158274288.post-54085427087450450412019-03-05T18:00:26.269-06:002019-03-05T18:00:26.269-06:00No, the CEO's interests are emphatically not a...No, the CEO's interests are emphatically not aligned with his secretary's interests. He gets a job that pays him enough to afford his family's $7,500 annual out of pocket by making sure she can't get one, and that the medical coverage she can get requires it anyway. There's nothing egalitarian about it.<br /><br />No, we can't burn it all down. No, we can't leave it as is.<br /><br />It's good to see you writing something again, but what prompted this, Margalit?Tom Leithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07787957132459123765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503957686158274288.post-8743244381759888842018-02-09T16:49:38.320-06:002018-02-09T16:49:38.320-06:00Thank you, sir... :-)Thank you, sir... :-)Margalit Gur-Ariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08777722834145614546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503957686158274288.post-48956998535304882032018-02-09T14:43:02.143-06:002018-02-09T14:43:02.143-06:00This post Wins the Internets.This post Wins the Internets.BobbyGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03807934795994985233noreply@blogger.com