Election-Year Patient Rights or Prescription Drug Legislation?
In both patient rights and drug benefits for seniors, the congressional Republican leadership is being driven farther than they want to be by the presidential election and the positions their candidates are finding they have to take in order to be responsive to voters.
Medicare and Pharmacy Benefits for Seniors
The same principles are true regarding the growing debate about adding a prescription drug benefit to Medicare.
Recent polls indicate that the No. 1 senior healthcare issue is the growing cost of prescription drugs. The average 15-percent-per-year increases in prescription drug costs for seniors, who do not have outpatient drug coverage under the traditional Medicare program, are adding up to become a real burden.
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Congress is now back to work just as the presidential election campaign moves to the first ballot boxes.
Healthcare is proving to be a top presidential issue with Congress facing increased pressure to do more than just kill a patient rights bill.
To make group exercise safer and more effective,and to avoid drivingparticipants to intensities beyond their capabilities, incorporate heart rate monitoring into your group programs. Continue reading
Back at Camp Church Social, the Red Berets are still busy doing their thing. One of them is out in the water all by himself fishing or searching for something. (If I were there, I wouldn’t allow them a moment alone. I would watch every single thing they did so I could learn and learn and learn.) The other is fixing the leak in their boat. Continue reading
In June 1998, the National Institutes of Health released the first ever federal guidelines for obesity. The Clinical Guidelines on the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity is the product of several years of review and discussion of more than 750 scientific studies on obesity. Continue reading
What’s the best way to make members happy? Ask them what they want, and give it to them. At least, that’s the philosophy of the Peggy and Philip B. Crosby Wellness Center in Winter Park, Fla. As a result of member input, the fitness center has decreased attrition by 21 percent, increased personal training from 116 to 360 sessions per month, and boosted average monthly attendance by 500. Continue reading
The most beloved person in the world right now will finally begin the talk show circuit. I wonder how David Letterman (who resents being forced to feature the Survivors even though he has no interest in the show) will handle her. Maybe he’ll force her to wear that little tank top again just for thrills. Continue reading
Well kids, after this episode we have only one more week of Survivor. The world’s biggest secret will be revealed in this last two-hour episode and thousands upon thousands of people will begin to experience Survivor withdrawal symptoms. Continue reading
