303- Patient Advocacy in the Era of Roughshod Health Care (Free)

In an era where it is suddenly OK for hospitals to bar entrance or refuse access to loved ones, patient advocates are being employed to defend rights. Consider someone who is in no shape to make medical decisions and without their family who have been barred from entrance by the hospital. Consider the elderly in (more…)

288- Medical Insurance, Sign of the Times – long-haired freaky people need not apply (Free)

    In the 70s it was still possible to find doctors practicing medicine. Health care was then privatized and the slow creep of the medical insurance takeover was under way. Currently, it seems, the quality and level of medical care available is determined by insurance companies who make dictates based on spreadsheets and bottom (more…)