Month: October 2023

Hospitals, doctors drop private Medicare plans over payment disputes

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

One large health system with hospitals in Virginia and Ohio this year cut off in-network access to consumers enrolled in some Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare and Medicaid health insurance plans.

Hospitals, doctors drop private Medicare plans over payment disputes

Related:

Vanderbilt Health to drop some Medicare Advantage plans

H/T: Christopher Westfall | Senior Savings Network (this is not an endorsement)

Dr Faiz Discusses the Israel-Palestine Conflict, says ‘New Class of Weapons Used’

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

In the heart of conflict-ridden Gaza, Dr. Khamis Al-Assi Momen Faiz, a distinguished neurologist and pain medicine consultant at the Turkish Hospital, bears witness to the deadly toll of the ongoing Israel-Palestine war. As the number of Palestinian deaths escalates to 7,500, with a significant proportion being women and children, Dr. Faiz gives a harrowing account of a new class of weapons causing extensive damage and burns.

Dr Faiz Discusses the Israel-Palestine Conflict, says ‘New Class of Weapons Used’

Lao Tzu: In war man sinks from his higher to his lower nature

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts

Lao Tzu

The Way of Life

Translated by Witter Bynner (Thanks to Ken Freeland)

One who would guide a leader of men in the uses of life
Will warn him against the use of arms for conquest.
Weapons often turn upon the wielder,
An army’s harvest is a waste of thorns,
Conscription of a multitude of men
Drains the next year dry.

Lao Tzu: In war man sinks from his higher to his lower nature