Virginia adopted my health insurance reform plan
Coronavirus March 21
Posted on 03/21/2020 in misc • Tagged with Health, Coronavirus
Like everybody else, the pandemic is "top of mind" 24 x 7 for me. I'm writing to help myself not internalize all of it. You can find other posts in the series at https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/tag/coronavirus.html
Weekends don't just hold the same appeal when you literally …
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Your cavalier attitude about Coronavirus is pissing me off
Posted on 03/08/2020 in misc • Tagged with Health, Coronavirus
Like everybody else, the pandemic is "top of mind" 24 x 7 for me. I'm writing to help myself not internalize all of it. You can find other posts in the series at https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/tag/coronavirus.html
In my travels around the Internet and Facebook (not the …
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The Body by Bill Bryson
In The Body, Bryson does for human biology what he did for science in A Short History of Everything. In about 400 pages he attempts to provide a college 101 level understanding of pretty much everything you might want to know about your body. He mostly succeeds, although given the …
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Wellness is not rocket science
Wellness is a $4 trillion dollar market. Most of that money is wasted. All of the money going to Goop is wasted. As a dude whose almost certainly over 50% done with life I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to maximize the odds that I’ll be …
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Price Gouging By Eli Lilly
We stopped by the pharmacy today to pick up a new Glucagon shot for my wife. Her old one was about 3 years past the expiration date and her doctor said they really do start to lose effectiveness after 3 years.
The retail price is $443.00
Glucagon is a …
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Carelink macOS High Sierra Workaround
Posted on 12/21/2017 in misc • Tagged with Medtronic, Health, Technology
This evening I attempted to help my wife upload data from her $9000 insulin pump to the crappy Java driven web app on Carelink.medtronic.com that she has to use to extract her data from the pump. I was greeted with the error screen above..
Medtronic is blocking the …
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A sneak peek at intelligent healthcare reform
My imaginary Internet friend Paul McAleer wrote a blog post about the pain of simple health care tasks like using your FSA account. Been there, done that, have the scars from bashing my head against my desk. However, it sparked a connection in my brain. Due the the high cost …
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Healthcare for America
I want to be that guy when I'm 70
Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond by Chris Crowley and Henry Lodge
This was a $1.99 Kindle special. It's targeted at guys my age, and since I was starting up my annual attempt to exercise regularly and eat better, I thought I …
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Carefirst II: Carefirst redeems itself, sort of
With the blood strip issue taken care of it was time for my wife to make an appointment with a new endocrinologist, as her existing doctor in Richmond is out of territory and thus out-of-network. I'm not sure why having more doctors to choose from should dramatically raises the price …
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Carefirst: The Comcast of Health Insurance
With my wife's adventure into startup land, we moved the family health insurance over to my company's coverage with Carefirst. It took me 12 whole days to hate Carefirst with the passion I usually reserve for the New York Yankees or Indiana University.
On about June 12 she called in …
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Why hasn't diabetes gotten cheaper?
20 years after the introduction of the insulin pump and nothing has gotten less expensive
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Medtronic Insulin Pumps
Posted on 05/20/2010 in misc • Tagged with Health, Medtronic