Following is from AARP by Jim toedtman: The Big Picture Expensive health care. The United States spends $2.3 trillion a year—17 percent of the national economy—on health care. That amounts to $6,714 per American compared with the per capita costs in Canada ($3,678), Germany ($3,371), Britain ($2,760) and Japan ($2,578). Poor return. At the same [...]

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Reuters did an article on how Canadians are tired of hearing Canada’s healthcare system cast as boogeyman in the vitriolic US political debate over healthcare reform. It has become quite a fashion, including here on THT some readers have done that, to beat up the Canadian system.  Irony is most of these comments are based [...]

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Today, feds arrested about 30 people including doctors and were looking for many more in a major medicare fraud prevention program.  AP reports that 200 agents worked on the $16 million bust that included 12 search warrants at healtcare businesses and homes across the Houston area where bulk of the arrests were made. The healthcare [...]

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In a study conducted by M1F1, a market research firm, it has been found that ‘herbivore’ boys shun sex and job. They are not much into flesh, that is women and sex.  They are part of a rapidly growing group in Japan called ‘herbivore boys’. Almost half of the men surveyed by M1F1, a marketing [...]

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One growing source of dietary phosphorous and potassium can is through ‘enhance’ fresh meat.  These foods are injected with sodium and potassium salt solutions. The level of potassium and sodium is not on the food labels and there is not requirement to do so.  These chemicals can be harmful to those with kidney disease.  However, [...]

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