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Mitt Romney Likes to Fire People

March 2nd, 2012

As always, headlines take ideas out of context and make them sound worse than they are. In the New Hampshire campaign this January, Mitt Romney said people should be free to change health insurers if they want. Obviously, if they are unhappy with the service, a free market will provide them with choices from competitors. Hopefully, if people act rationally and keep moving their business until they are satisfied with the quality of service, the bad providers will be forced to improve or end up bankrupt. When Romney said he “likes” to fire people, what he meant to say was he likes having the right or freedom to fire people who do not provide a good service. There’s nothing wrong with this. Even Ron Paul has come out to defend Romney. Yet, in a hotly contested primary, the other candidates have picked on this as further evidence Romney is an asset-stripping exploiter of labor. He buys up companies, terminates the loyal workers and sells on the assets for a quick profit. This is not the way you want to run a country. Unless, of course, it’s being run with too many workers in high-paying jobs who fail to contribute to the wealth of the nation. Perhaps it does need a hard-nosed capitalist to fire the overpaid civil servants who contribute little and slim down the private sector workforces by refusing earmarks and direct subsidies. For the record, Mitt Romney won New Hampshire with Ron Paul in second so it must be alright to talk about firing people who deserve to be fired.

Except, of course, there’s a world of difference between going into a shop or restaurant, finding poor service and expressing your unhappiness by walking out and never going back, and firing your insurance company. Everyone would want the right to terminate all services relationships for cause and, for the most part, this does apply to the short-term service relationships. But firing the insurance company that pays for your healthcare is a different ballgame. As more and more people find private health cover unaffordable, we are rapidly approaching the point where half the population are covered in health plans provided by employers. Although some employers do provide a choice between insurers, the vast majority only allow a choice between different health insurance plans offered by the same insurer. In practical terms, being employed means you have little or no control over the choice or continued “employment” of your insurer.

Why is there no choice? The reason is the present state of federal law and the tax system. There are no national insurers. Every state is sovereign and regulates its local insurance market. Except the employee health benefits are not taxed. This gives a direct financial incentive to employers and their employees to maximize the levels of health benefits available. It also explains why spending on health care has risen so fast over the last fifty years. Employees have been taking as much value as they can out of the system. The result is the collapse of the private health insurance market. It also means half the population are brainwashed into never changing their insurers. Cheap health insurance has therefore become increasingly hard to find. There’s no incentive for insurers to offer a better service because few people ever fire them.

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Calcium and Glucosamine for Bone and Arthritis Health

February 25th, 2012

Chhattisgarhvidhansabha.org – Awareness about the importance of calcium for bone health in the community began to grow.

This can be seen from the increasing awareness of the public to consume milk as calcium sources on a regular basis, ranging from children to the elderly. But to support optimal body movements, in addition to having a healthy bone should also be supported by healthy arthritis.

One disease that can attack the arthritis is osteoarthritis; a degenerative disease that causes chronic pain due to cartilage damage is located between the bones and arthritis. If the damage is not well handled, can result in missing a bearing on the arthritis so that the bones rub against each other. This will make the arthritis feel stiff and sore. Osteoarthritis is a chronic degenerative disease called because it usually occurs in a long time in the elderly as part of the aging process, although the cause may also be due to other factors.

When osteoarthritis has occurred in the severe stage, can lead to disability because there is no cure. Drugs that are used usually only to eliminate / reduce the symptoms are felt. Therefore, prevention is important to do, so as not affect by osteoarthritis.

One of the compounds is widely used for maintaining healthy arthritis is glucosamine. Glucosamine itself is building a compound in cartilage, which serves as a cushion on the ends of the bones and prevents fractures when moving. Glucosamine is not present in sufficient quantities in the diet and must be synthesized by the body. The body’s ability to synthesize glucosamine can also be reduced with age, therefore in the elderly; it is easier to get osteoarthritis.

Milk containing glucosamine can have multiple benefits, namely calcium content can maintain healthy bones and prevent osteoporosis, while its glucosamine content to maintain healthy arthritis and prevent osteoarthritis affected.

Noteworthy is that these supplements should be consumed regularly and orderly, because it is to maintain health and prevent disease. So in the old age, we can stay healthy and active without interruption, both on the bones and arthritis.

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Role of Women in Men’s Health

February 19th, 2012

Generally, men have poorer health status than women, this happens because of several factors, including culture which emphasizes the importance of achievement and competence. Besides the belief in manliness and courage make him more dangerous potential to do work and the tendency to not use a sufficient deterrent.

There are several facts that can be seen and associated with lower perceived health of men than women. The most obvious and most occurred in many countries in the world are the difference in life expectancy between men and women. Where male life expectancy tends to be shorter, ranging from 4 to 6 years shorter than women. When judging any further, it turns out that the death occurred (especially in men) many of which are premature and should be prevented. Related to this we also need to know and know well about the disease that often affects and cause of death in men and ultimately health promotion or preventive actions can be performed as early as possible.

Some diseases are the cause of death in men is heart disease, lung disease, stroke, hypertension, diabetes and cancer. It’s important for men to realize their vulnerability and take positive action to prevent the arrival of these diseases. And increased attention to yourself the existence of risk factors that may be present as a history of heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure in the family, obesity, poor lifestyle, smoking and stress

Another interesting thing to note is related to the nature of men’s health issues or feelings which are common in men, namely fear, shame and refused to budge. Fear of a doubt its existence as a man, ashamed to declare themselves sick always be identified as a weakness and try to show they capable of giving rise paced nature refused to budge. Not to mention the typical coping mechanism that occurs in men who are experiencing a state events are quite heavy, they generally do things that are not good for their own health, such as smoking, drinking alcohol etc. Looking at some of it is the involvement of other people / groups as a booster for the men pay more attention to health would be something to be done. In this case the woman can be very influential.