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...would be a brilliant idea to grow apart from - but he's also the impetus for the reunion. After a sodden night on the town, Lou passes out in his own garage behind the wheel of his running muscle car - an incident interpreted as a suicide attempt - and the doctor insists that someone keep an eye on him for a few days. (See the top 10 movie wimps...
Mothers who outsource the care of their sons to other women may be inadvertently raising adulterers. Or so claims Dr. Dennis Friedman in a book that has kicked up a bit of a ruckus in Britain. A Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the doctor argues that men become womanizers because their mothers left them with nannies...
...failing government-run Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program rolls. That is, half of the 32 million Americans that the bill’s proponents claim will be covered are dumped into a government-run program that America already cannot afford. While 87 percent of doctors reported accepting all or most new privately insured patients in 2008, only 53 percent of doctors reported accepting all or most new Medicaid patients, because Medicaid reimburses doctors below market rates. What good is Medicaid coverage if a doctor refuses to see you because...
...medical care - and regularly vote them out of office when they fail to deliver. Taxes may be slightly higher in Europe, but medical fees are heavily subsidized by governments and are drastically cheaper than they are in the U.S. The French, for example, pay a fixed $30 for a doctor's visit - and proposals to raise that fee even a few cents can ignite national protests. And in most of Europe, insurance companies are barred from rejecting applicants because of pre-existing conditions. (See pictures of immigration in Europe...
...artistic life as an indulgence he has underwritten and doesn't think she stands a chance against her illness, but what is he going to do - stop subsidizing her will to survive? Health care in the 21st century is cruel territory, and sometimes, as Shep points out to Glynis' doctor, a positive attitude is the cruelest: "Nobody in this biz is ever sup posed to throw up their hands and call it quits, so long as there's any last teensy weensy, teeny-tiny smidgeon of a chance that some new therapy will eke out a few extra days...