MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'boom'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:22:38 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4512391&cid=t_158404_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fconsumer-driven-healthcare-why-it-will-fail%2F2011.02.23 With the creation of consumer-driven health plans and health insurance policies with high deductibles linked to a savings option, more financial responsibility shouldered by patients and employees and less by employers was completely inevitable. The American public likes to have everything, whether consumer electronics or other services, as cheap as possible. With escalating healthcare expenses rising far more rapidly than wages or inflation, it’s not surprising employers needed a way to manage this increasingly-costly business expense. In the past, companies faced a similar dilemma. It wasn’t about medical costs, but managing increasingly expensive retirement and pension plan obligations. Years ago, companies moved from these defined benefit plans to defined contribution plan... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4512391 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:00:00 +0100 4512391 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4314007&cid=t_158404_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fnew-year-begins-with-a-baby-boom%2F2011.01.05 On January 1, Kathleen Casey-Kirschling became the first of the baby-boom generation to qualify for Medicare. She’s hardly alone: The baby-boom generation will cause enrollment in Medicare to soar. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, Medicare enrollment will increase from 47 million today to 64 million in 2020 to 80 million people by 2030. At the same time, the ratio of workers paying into the program to support each Medicare enrollee will drop from 3.4 (2010) to 2.8 (2020) and then to 2.3 workers per beneficiary in 2030, denying the program the tax revenue needed to sustain it. What happens then? Well, the President and Congress would have a dismal menu of political and policy choices. They could impose huge tax increases, inflicting great harm on working families and the economy... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4314007 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:00:00 +0100 4314007 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3453898&cid=t_158404_87_f&fid=38368&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDisruptiveWomenInHealthCare%2F%7E3%2FCe9YgSAtJTg%2F By Phyllis Kritek. When I hear a story repeated in different parts of the country by persons who differ, one from another, in striking ways, I pay attention: This is no longer a story, it is a pattern. The stories preoccupying me these days are ones where parents of recent college graduates tell me that their son or daughter successfully completed college but was unable to find a job, and thus became a waitperson, the politically correct term for one who serves food in a restaurant. Usually waitpersons do not have health care coverage through their employer.  We can find these same young people in the health care insurance reform legislation: they can now stay covered by their parents’ insurance policies until the age of 26. I think this is supposed to be good news. Watching the unfoldi... Disruptive Women in Health Care blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3453898 Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:26:40 +0100 3453898 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2876022&cid=t_158404_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fc18y9pP9fp8%2F Many commentators have argued that if the Federal Reserve had followed a stricter monetary policy earlier this decade when the housing bubble was forming, and if Congress had not deregulated banking but had imposed tighter financial standards, the housing boom and bust—and the subsequent financial crisis and recession—would have been averted. In a new study, Cato scholars Jagadeesh Gokhale and Peter Van Doren investigate those claims and dispute them. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2876022 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:05:50 +0100 2876022 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1911499&cid=t_158404_109_f&fid=35677&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBrainBasedBusiness%2F%7E3%2F433057287%2Fbrainpower_eludes_victims.html Two forces powerfully at work in global markets also work within each workplace, so that an urgency exists for a human response. People line up on either side of these two divides, creating a sort of mental tug-a-war between courage and fear. It's also combat between seritonin and cortisol. On one side you'll find progressive innovators and on the other side, victims vent. Two polar ends remain at odds, in that innovators stand courageously and take new risks, while victims create anxiety and spread victimhood within their words. Have you heard it lately?Victims tell how some  pollute the planet. Innovators seek sustainability plans. Victims describe poorly met health needs. Innovators seek healthcare change. Victims dwell on who caused market to crash. Innovators re-invest fo... BrainBasedBusiness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1911499 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:04:20 +0100 1911499 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1739073&cid=t_158404_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F08%2F27%2Fdown-economy-therapy-boom%2F The Star Tribune brings us a piece earlier this week on the “boom” in psychotherapy practices, ostensibly because of the down economy: Schoener is, again, seeing more of those things. “We’re busier than ever, and we haven’t had any recent publicity or visibility,” said Schoener, executive director of the Walk-In Counseling Center in Minneapolis. “It’s quite striking.” He estimates that the number of clients is 20 percent higher than just three years ago. Calls are coming from stressed-out couples who can’t stop fighting, from people worried about losing their jobs, from parents whose adult children have been forced to move home. “And we haven’t seen the full bore of the housing crisis,” he said. The article ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1739073 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:03:38 +0100 1739073 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1055787&cid=t_158404_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F191854181%2F They called it Boom! and marketed it online as an herbal supplement used to enhance sexual performance - one that was less expensive and “probably far safer” than prescription Viagra. But the two New Jersey men who sold Boom! in the US and around the world never mentioned the formula contained the active ingredient of Viagra, according to federal authorities in Manhattan, who arrested the men yesterday. Tibor Liska, 47, and Blake Bohinc, 50, were charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan said. They are scheduled to appear in federal court today, reports The Star-Ledger of New Jersey (which owns Pharmalot). From early 2006 to earlier this month, the men marketed the supplement without informing customers it contained sildenafil ... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1055787 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:16:41 +0100 1055787 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2511109&cid=t_158404_109_f&fid=34793&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FOkSoImNotReallyACowboy%2F%7E3%2Fx2qMylielVM%2F I’ve been arguing with anti-gunnies for a few years now. And the one thing that strikes me about these people is they have no fear of being violently attacked. Whether or not this fear is rational is beside the point. The thing is that they are unable to understand why others don’t feel that way. But more importantly they see no need for others to have a means of self defense. I’ve made the confession several times before that carrying is not one of my top priorities. Because like those anti-gunnies with their heads in the clouds, I too have almost no fear of being attacked. The closest I ever came was while in England, fearing not being mugged, but the legal and criminal repercussions of defending myself against the mugger. Like the silver spoon leftists I went to school... OK so I'm not really a cowboy. blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2511109 Mon, 18 Dec 2006 21:05:54 +0100 2511109 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2511110&cid=t_158404_109_f&fid=34793&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FOkSoImNotReallyACowboy%2F%7E3%2Fk8Y9hqza2-I%2F With the growing popularity of concealed carry licenses has also come a ballooning number of establishments that prohibit firearms upon their premises. Employee and customer alike must obey these dictates. And–often angrily–they wonder why their ‘right to bear arms’ doesn’t extend to these places of business. The answer of course is that this is the essence of the right to own property. What good is owning something if you have no control over it? Much like the 1st amendment, you can criticize their position, but not their right to hold said position. And just as entertainers and celebrities often pay a price for opening their mouths a bit too wide, these proprietors may pay a price for the positions they take. A guy on Kim du Toit’s forum shared a lette... OK so I'm not really a cowboy. blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2511110 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:43:01 +0100 2511110 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2511123&cid=t_158404_109_f&fid=34793&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FOkSoImNotReallyACowboy%2F%7E3%2FGYbnNZdB2eE%2F If you’re a firearms enthusiast you’ve probably heard of Norinco. They’re a chinese manufacturer of a lot of weapon-related tech. What makes buying Norinco different from buying other Chinese stuff is that they are a profit center for the People’s Liberation Army. Who they’re liberating and who they’ve kept liberated I don’t know. But there you have it. Buying exports sucks, but we all do it. But when you buy Norinco, you are directly increasing the coffers of the army of the world’s next big–probably inimical–threat. What makes it so tempting is that in several cases, Norinco offers clones of some interesting and highly sought after weapons. They make the only forged M14/M1A receivers, Springfield et al. use cast receivers. And w... OK so I'm not really a cowboy. blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2511123 Wed, 11 Oct 2006 21:24:21 +0100 2511123 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=468474&cid=t_158404_109_f&fid=34793&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FOkSoImNotReallyACowboy%2F%7E3%2F31794341%2F For people who are more nuanced and intellectual than men like me, with our benighted concepts of individual liberty, leftists sure seem unable to understand that a weapon is never solely an instrument of offense. In fact, many of the most popular martial art forms began as a form of defense. Kung Fu, brought to China by the Indian buddhist monk Bodhidharma, was intended as a defensive art which would confer upon them some immunity from the predations of Taoist militants then in power. And martial artists are generally known for their reserve and unwillingness to escalate the situation, this despite the fact that their bodies themselves are weapons. Just this past weekend I found myself in a situation involving a guy who pretty much needed an ass kicking–mistreating and harassing fem... OK so I'm not really a cowboy. blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=468474 Tue, 03 Oct 2006 16:15:51 +0100 468474