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 'free health care'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:33:54 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4105840&cid=t_247862_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2FzhPYbx7FCjA%2F Malpractice Methodology (New York Times OpEd by Peter Orszag) Right now, health care is more evidence-free than you might think. And even where evidence-based clinical guidelines exist, research suggests that doctors follow them only about half of the time. One estimate suggests that it takes 17 years on average to incorporate new research findings into widespread practice. As a result, any clinical guidelines that exist often have limited impact. How might we encourage doctors to adopt new evidence more quickly? If this is the case with health care overall, despite much progress over the last 30–40 years, imagine how worse it may be when we talk about brain health, when neuroscience and cognitive neuroscience are relatively more recent disciplines. This is a key insight to keep in m... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4105840 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:09:04 +0100 4105840 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4086254&cid=t_247862_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FIv2rif1wiEE%2F By Neal McCluskeyWhile politicians probably support many policies for college students in part because they think the policies will be educationally or otherwise beneficial, vote buying is no doubt also important. Of course, it’s hard to find a politician who will actually cop to the latter. On this morning’s Today show, however, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine came about as close to doing that as you could possibly hope for.  Responding to interviewer Ann Curry’s observation that President Obama has aimed a lot of campaigning at college students lately, Kaine noted that young people voted for Obama in record numbers in 2008, and “the message to young voters is pretty simple… we’ve done the largest expansion of the student loa... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4086254 Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:14:15 +0100 4086254 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3403866&cid=t_247862_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FpxjZUAbo3NU%2F By Juan Carlos HidalgoCosta Rica – my home country – has suddenly become part of the health care debate after celebrity radio talk show host, Rush Limbaugh said that he would move to Costa Rica go to Costa Rica for health care if  ObamaCare were approved by Congress the federal government gets too involved in health care in the next few years. Soon after Sunday’s vote in the House of Representatives, a website was set up to buy Limbaugh a one-way, first-class ticket to Costa Rica. Liberals were quick to point out that my country has a socialized health care system that is among the best in Latin America. People claim that in Costa Rica health care is a right, not a commodity. The problem surfaces when you actually need to exercise your “right.” Last July, La Nación newspaper ca... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3403866 Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:29:23 +0100 3403866 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2512258&cid=t_247862_129_f&fid=36035&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.everydayhealth.com%2Fblog%2Flife-with-chronic-pain%2Fthis-health-care-stuff-is-giving-me-a-headache%2F John Wayne, where are you when we need you? We’re in a mess over the health care in this here town. We could use you in any of your vast array of personas. Mclintock would be perfect in this situation, or possibly Marshal Rooster Cogburn.  Our little old western town is in an awful fix. A new mayor has come to town and wants to change everything. The problem we’re having is, first of all, to figure out what he’s saying. Then, just when we get it figured out, some of those other politicians that he’s always hanging out with demand things to be done their way. The old town hall was rockin’ yesterday when the new mayor gathered the doctor’s in the territory into one room and said, “We’re gonna fix this mess. I’m gonna make sure all the bad guys are run out of town. Then I�... Life with Chronic Pain blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2512258 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:06:45 +0100 2512258