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Doctors Are Overtesting & Overtreating – A spate of recent reports suggest that too many Americans are being overtested and overtreated.
Doctors are doing too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many cesarean sections, etc. Is it doctors practicing defensive medicine? Or are patients so accustomed to a culture of medical technology that they [...]
Page 145 Line 15-17: An employer must auto-enroll employees into a public option plan.
Page 126 Lines 22-25: Employers must provide an approved level of partial payment for health care for part-time employees and their families.
Page 149 Lines 16-24: Any employer with payroll above $401k who does not provide public option health care coverage [...]
Gram-negative Bacteria Infections Deadly – While much research has focused on MRSA infections, gram-negative bacteria are just as deadly and only have two risky treatment options.
The deadly bacteria, classified as Gram-negative because of their reaction to the so-called Gram stain test, can cause severe pneumonia and infections of the urinary tract, bloodstream and other parts [...]