medications

I had to pick up some medications for the dog this morning, so I drove my car to work. I passed five gas stations in Bellevue - all without gasoline. The Exxon across the street from my office has gas. The cars resemble vultures circling a fresh kill.

"You don't need an appointment — just walk up.

As we all know, Bill Hobbs is on his great crusade to defund Planned Parenthood and instead move all that money into government-run services, because the TNGOP loves government-run healthcare, except when it’s proposed by Democrats.

No, wait, that can’t be it.

Back in Buffalo, there's a lot of hype about this little experiment.

Two days - and they fail. Two days where there's no utility worker turning you off. Two days with no real danger of losing your home.

Vegas figures out that Housing First works, and works well....

Premiums have continued to go up for your health insurance, and now we find that co-pays for certain drugs have changed from a standard fixed payment to a percentage payment for “Tier 4″ drugs.

And this is what she wrote:
According to Dr. Harvey Gilbert of the Gilbert Guide, there are several factors to consider in the assessment includes functional status, other illnesses, social support, medications and more.
Though the length of survival and quality of life depends on the type of cancer and the treatment, there are some factors that [...]

In what is becoming a tradition, I'm offering up a LOST theory after last night's show. I won't take credit for doing anything other than stumbling across this theory, but it is a pretty good one...

Knoxville is the nation's asthma capital . . . again:

For the third time in five years, Knoxville has been ranked as the #1 Asthma Capital, a distinction it also had in the 2004 and 2005 rankings. The factors that have helped to lift Knoxville to the top spot again include higher than average annual pollen levels, high air pollution, lack of “100% smoke-free” laws, patient over-use of asthma rescue medications

R. Neal yesterday told a sad story about his wife watching a woman discuss her prescription drug prices with her pharmacist so as to eliminate those she needed least because she couldn’t afford them.