Big Medical Benefits are Dead. What’s next? Smart Choices YOU Can Make!

B'SD

3 Tamuz, 5773

Patients and disability advocates worldwide are making their complicated way through medical reforms, unaffordable healthcare acts and denials of care. And worse.

Doctors are either leaving their professions or innovating them.

Smart people are shoring up their defenses 
to protect their health. 

One way they do it is by reading

The E-book and print edition are filled with soothing content, can-do exercises and tips for organizing a hectic medical or disability life. 

There's even an entire Global Resources section to clue readers in to worldwide charitable organizations willing to pay part or all of your specific medical bills. 

All you have to do is to ask for the assistance!

Who praises the book on and inside the cover?

• Dr. Judith Guedalia Head of Neuropsychiatry at Shaarei Zedek Hospital, 
• Addiction Rehabilitation professional Rabbi Dr. Avraham Twerski, 
• psychologist Dr. Lisa Aiken, 
• Dr. Al Musella of the Musella Brain Tumor Research and Information Foundation
• New York University Associate Professor Shiela Strauss, PhD

and

• Medical ethicist Dr. Daniel Eisenberg 

among other public figures. 

Need to Soothe Someone Sick or Disabled? Yourself?

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BIG Healthcare benefits are dead or dying, sometimes hard to secure. 

Buy the E-book or print edition today. Click on the words EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.  

Face Your Medical Problems - or someone else's - with Dignity. 

Face Your Future with Optimism. 

Find out what those medical and mental health professionals, plus the readers who bought it, like about the book.

 

Lower Your Health Care Costs

(a side note: I had intended to to publish this blogpost update
on Sunday. But instincts tell me that you're as worried about
finances as can be. So I've released my update early, to ease
your weekend and mind)

B'SD

19 Elul 5770


Are we in a Recession? A Depression? The tailspin of an economic mess history has never seen before?

Google the phrase "Hindenberg Omen." You'll get a fast education on why the US and world economies are in severe turmoil. Reports such as

Gov't Set to Confirm What Many Feel:
Economy at a Standstill

Bernanke under pressure
to prop it up!

and

'RECOVERY SUMMER' ENDS SICK

are only the visible parts of the deteriorating situation.

Reduce your medical costs by learning of organizations that will pay your bills or provide your quality medical care for relatively modest fees. Many are listed in the Global Resources section of It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

You need to buy




TODAY.

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.

If Your Health Depends on US Social Security Benefits, You Need a Plan B

B'SD

21 Av 5770

If your retirement plans include reliance on Social Security Funds - even Supplemental Social Security funds - for paying retirement health care or ANY retirement expenses, talk to your accountant, friends and family about creating a Plan B. Plan A is not likely to work out.

Click on Your Money - Nervous About Social Security? Better Prepare Now - NYTimes.com

Good luck and pray hard. We need the Heavenly Help to survive the hellish mess in the White House. Obama did not reform health care. He deformed it.

EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.

Where's the Outrage?

B'SD


10 Tamuz 5770


Americans face alarmingly dangerous health risks on many fronts: the BP oil spill ruining its shores and wildlife, food recalls (are the FDA and food service industries hiring people who care and can read or not?) and an increasingly obvious sleight-of-hand Healthcare Reform Act robbing victims of the very healthcare they desperately need.

This "Healthcare Reform Act" crime against humanity was enacted March 23 2010. I have yet to learn of someone's life being improved by it.

I have learned, however, of thousands of people losing vitally needed Medicare privileges, and of doctors going broke or choosing to go out of business for lack of sufficient reimbursement.

Read this editorial from the internationally repected publication The New England Journal of Medicine: Where's the Outrage?

I was in the USA during winter holiday season 2008. It was depressing due to one horrific financial scandal after another. News shows tallied mounting losses of homes, businesses, marriages and lives. Americans voted for a president promising "Hope" and "Change."

The only change we've witnessed is the increasingly rapid, downward spiral of the US economy and public welfare.

I beg of you: let your neighbors know of

It is full of

Information on how to calm down,
get Perspective so you can
plan for your medical needs sensibly,

PLUS

Pages listing free and low-cost
QUALITY health care resources.

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Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.

To your optimal health, Yojeved

Boiling the Frog in the Health Care Bog

B'SD

23 Nisan 5770


I'm sorry I don't have warm, fuzzy reassuring news to share with you, today. Instead, I offer a wisely considered essay about the poorly crafted Health Care Reform legislation now haunting the USA. The remarks are by world-class public speaker and businessman Randy Gage: Boiling the Frog in the Health Care Bog.

Yep, "Unfortunately for the administration, they omitted to deal with one pesky little chink in the armor... That is the Security and Exchange Commissions rule requiring companies to restate their earnings to reflect present value of long-term health plan liabilities."

I won't be surprised, but I will be quite sad, to learn of Americans dying or suffering otherwise avoidable harm because of this poorly considered legislation. The wool has been pulled over American eyes.

It could kill or severely harm you.

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End Your Anxiety about Health Care Legislation

B'SD

14 Nisan 5770


Pesach/Passover begins tonight, several hours ahead of US time (Israel went into Daylight Savings Time last week). I'll be taking a weeklong blog break to savor the holiday with celebrations, hikes and quality time with friends.

Meanwhile, read the NY Times Wellness blogpost Doctors Offer Thoughts on Cutting Health Care Costs.

The problem with those otherwise life-saving ideas is that it will take too much time for relevant legislation to pass. Who knows if they can hang on until 2014???

Here's an immediate solution to the problem!

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Coping with a Medical Crisis?
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What the Medical World Wants

B'SD

2 Shvat 5770


Readers, there are exceptions to the rules written below, but not enough.

Medicine has morphed into a much-different world in the last 45 years. Lifestyles and health risks have also changed dramatically. Increased workloads, fast food and time restraints have had negative effects on the aging and health process. Poor diet, stress, and environmental chemicals, let alone industrial poisonings affect us in ways the human body never dealt with before.

Conventional Medical Professionals are too often trapped, telling ill people to obey expensive commands and perspectives, and then frustrated when compliance doesn't happen or doesn't work.

It's easy to lose sight of what the patients want and need.

Too many medical institutions and practitioners don't want successful self-help and holistic healing methods, because although selling synthetic medicines and dangerous procedures is expensive and often worsens physical, spiritual or emotional health, it keeps them in business.

On the other hand, they love industry-wide consensus and brand-name products because they bring in reimbursement, plus they have promotional support from drug manufacturers and treatment sites that need to pay for expensive purchases that fill desperate people with hope.

The pharmaceutical (drug) industry doesn't want tried-and-true remedies that don't change from year to year. That's not going to build drug sales. The conventional medical world thrives on BREAKTHROUGH discoveries and ever-changing rationales about why one medication or treatment method is preferable to another. That's how they make a living.

Governments have an at-odds-with-itself investment in supporting medical advances and treatment (the USA seems to excel at this). They're focused on cost-effective ways of keeping citizens nominally healthy but are uninterested in respecting individual needs or in respecting cost-effective preventative measures. Passing prohibitive laws that limit healthcare and healthcare insurance options gives them agendas. And all that media attention!

The trips, the bribes, the personal power ...

If the medical world prescribed lifestyle changes, whole foods or natural cures along with effective conventinal medical practices, they'd have to face some cost-effective realities and lose lots of potential scare-mongering income.

If the medical industry can't make money selling complementary/alternative healing methods in addition to lucrative conventional medical practices, why would its members recommend non-conventional methods to you?

You can view these realities as mysteries too big for mortals to solve. Or you can see them as parts of the system as enduring and as central as the groupthink on which the conventional medical world largely relies...

Pledge allegiance to the system and you might forget the patient. And we know how poorly that's working out over time.

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Yocheved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

7 Solutions for Reducing Health Care Costs & Confusion!

B'SD

6 Tishrei 5770

Readers, today's message is simple. Here are Seven Solutions for Reducing Health Care Costs & Confusion:

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Save Money on that Medical Problem! Here's How.

B'SD


22 Elul 5769



Seriously ill? Can't cope with the economic downturn? Need medical treatment, medications & more to make it through your illness but can't afford them?

THIS BOOK can SAVE you lots of money!

It lists free and low-cost sources - regionally and around the world - for PC software, free medical transport by air and land, medication plus medical treatment, medical insurance and medical appliances for seriously ill people who can't afford what they need (usually due to unemployment and/or high costs of those goods/services) and a whole lot more.

The book also teaches you how to calm down from the fear, pain and confusion that seem to be such a BIG part of medical problems.

Medical and mental health professionals recommend
It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To:
EMPOWER Yourself to Cope
with a Medical Challenge.

Some of them use it in their practices.

Benefit by reading this book that comes
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Save money when you EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

Keep the change and spend it on a treat that lifts your spirits.

Yocheved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

Coming SOON! To a Monitor Near You!

B'SD

7 Elul 5769

The E-book version of It's MY Crisis And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge is being digitized. You'll soon be able to learn of helpful strategies for managing medically-related stress. You'll find out about many global resources for low-cost, sometimes free, Quality Medical Care that's available to you and/or your loved ones.

Here are just some endorsements of the book by medical and mental health professionals:

UPDATE: I realized that you might have trouble reading the text above. Here are a few approbations from the back cover and inside the book:

"… a powerful 'can-do' message to those most in need of it… It could save your life or the life of your loved one. This combination of positive attitude and positive action makes this guide useful and complete. Its lessons extend far beyond the medical sphere to life challenges whatever they may be: lessons we can't afford to ignore." – Life Coach Y. Ives, England

"...Filled with treasures of knowledge, information and approaches that can be invaluable to anyone going through a medical crisis, even you. This book is a blessing. It can help many people to cope with their medical problems, filling them with hope and faith." - Lilliane Ritchie, Refuah Institute Professional Counselor Training Instructor, Israel

"The first edition of It's MY Crisis! has held the #2 spot at http://virtualtrials.com/books.cfm since November 2 2008. I've read and added EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge to our Recommended Reading list, too." – Al Musella, DPM, Musella Foundation for Brain Tumor Research and Information http://virtualtrials.com/index.cfm

"I received EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge one week after I suffered my own medical crisis and found it very helpful. [It] will be of great benefit both in dealing with the fragile emotional health of sick patients and the stressful situation of the patient's caregiver… [with] very practical comprehensive information for dealing with a health-related crisis that is so seldom available to someone who is ill and preoccupied with their own troubles. Ill people are often compromised and often don't know where to look for guidance. Putting so much useful information at their fingertips will help them navigate the difficulties of a confusing medical system. Combined with [the author's] encouragement to never give up hope, the book will be of great aid to anyone with a sudden serious medical emergency." - Daniel Eisenberg, MD, Department of Radiology at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA; Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Imaging at Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine; Medical Ethicist http://www.daneisenberg.com/

"This is a helpful, informative text that can bring hope, help and humor to someone experiencing a medical crisis." - Dr. Lisa Aiken, Psychologist

"... This book is lifesaving, emotionally rewarding, spiritual, funny and helpful… " - Judith Guedalia, PhD. Director, Neuropsychology Unit and Chief Medical Psychologist ER Trauma (MCE)Team at Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Wishing you the best in your coping efforts,

Yocheved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

Is it Health Care "Reform" or Health Care "Neglect"?

B'SD

4 Elul 5769


Why aren't black breast cancer patients over age 65 faring well if they're on Medicare?

Why is the America Dental Association disappointed with alleged health care reform efforts? How much would those efforts fail to help Medicaid recipients and to provide preventative care to the wider population?

Read these interesting and troubling headlines in the medical world today:

Hospital Might Explain Cancer Outcome Disparities

ADA: No Smiles for Health Reform Bills

Hoping that my book and blog will lead you to solutions ;^ )

Stand by for publication news.

Yocheved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

Staying Alive: Medically, Financially and MORALLY

B'SD


7 Menachem Av 5769


Read Star Lawrence's comment on yesterday's post, then What Happened to the Moral Case for Health-Care Reform?

Now check out this Tweet from USA Today reporter Liz Szabo:

LizSzaboFriend w/ #preemie
just got her NICU bill
-- $3200/day.
And the #baby needs to stay 2 mos.
What does this say
about #healthcare?
Thoughts?

Here's what I've been thinking for a few years already: Staying alive has become a medical and financial nightmare. As Star pointed out yesterday, some folks are considering euthanasia, killing off the sick to save money.

The moral, social

and personal expense

of THAT is the stuff of

novels and nightmares.

The end of life's purpose.

I'm trying to reverse course for the defenseless victims of out-of-control medical costs, overbearing and immoral governance. The strategically, emotionally and financially draining spectrum of illness further endangers human health.

"It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To: A Life Book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears and to Cope with a Medical Challenge" addressed those issue on a global basis. The book sold modestly around the world.

The revised, updated edition is about to be released.

has MORE money-saving

and psychologically

soothing options

than the first edition!

EMPOWER Yourself

to Cope with a Medical Challenge

is filled with MORE exercises

for building inner strengths

plus NEWER information

about low-cost or free

global resources for getting

the care you need, including:

Affordable Insurance
Financial Assistance
Medical Air Flights
and Other forms of
Transportation,
Medical Care,
Medication,
Medical Appliances
and MORE!

Wait until you read the cover praise from a medical ethicist!

The publication date is set to coincide with the first edition's anniversary. That's the last weekend in August/first weekend of September, known as Labor Day Weekend in the USA. Possibly sooner.

To YOUR Patient Empowerment,

Yocheved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

How 20-Somethings Can Protect Their Health. Affordably. You, Too!

B'SD

1 Menachem Av 5769

Sad news in the USA. Obama claims that he isn't familiar with the present health bill passing through White House auspices.

And 20-somethings fresh out of college can't afford minimal health insurance.

No Jobs, No Insurance:
Hard Times for Young Adults

America, this is not your typical hard work = success story. And it is hurting people across the USA's social spectrum.

Good news, though. The "It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To: A Life Book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears and to Cope with a Medical Challenge" book holds lots of information about free and low-cost health care options. It has stories and exercises for making you feel better, too.

It costs less than some tranquilizers.
Feel better. Affordably.

BUY IT TODAY!

To your good health,

Yocheved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

Community Health Centers Can Endanger Your Life

B'SD

7 Adar 5769

Either the new American president doesn't comprehend the necessity of excellent health care and the means of delivering it, or he simply wants more cost-cutting at the expense of US citizens. That is, at the expense of voters' lives and the decreasing quality of those lives while those voters still breathe.

If you live in the USA then you probably know how increasingly hard it is to get hold of some medicines and medical treatments, let alone quality time with a doctor who follows your case over time.

If you've ever been to a college health center, a Medicare office or other bureaucratic medical institution and suffered significant lack of health care there, you can imagine the outcome of Obama's new "hinted at" health-care proposal for solving overcrowded emergency room problems.

True, hospital emergency rooms have long been overburdened by people who use them for primary medical care. But Obama's health care reform concept is NOT designed to cure the problem no matter how much he insists otherwise.

Bureaucracy only disables medical professionals from delivering quality health care. Government intervention is designed to limit, as in repress, prohibit and prevent, necessary medical care that is expensive or used for frail indivuals with statistically poor chances of recovery.

Consider how all of the above is going to become dramatically worse when you read this news clipping:

"...2 Mar 2009 ... Obama pushes centers as one focus of health reform ... provided a hint on Monday of one direction he could take -- community health centers..."

Read the rest of this appalling story at Obama Pushes Health Care Centers as One Focus of Health Reform Deals ...


Click here to remind yourself that I've warned you of this pending development in the past.

Check out this WashPost story entitled Doctors Seek Fees at Time Of Service

That story was not a harbinger of improving health care news.

UPDATE: More Proof that Obama is Clueless about How to Solve the Problem. Or Lies that He Intends to.

It is inexcusable for the US president to be unaware of the following news items. He talks a good game but clearly has no clue about how to improve your healthcare. See

Your Emergency Can Wait: 47 Minutes

As you realize your increasing need for my book, filled with low-cost and free medical resources from medical evaluation to medication, medical appliances, and on-going medical treatment of a superb quality, you'll begin to realize "I NEED to click here and buy Yocheved's book about how to cope with medical crises!"

I had no concept of the dire future need for my book when I wrote it. I had simply written it to help people I'd probably never meet. It was a way to "pay forward" the kindnesses that other people and The One Above had done for me.

Let my initiative, research, and concern for the rest of humanity help you.

Click on

I'm Buying Yocheved's Book
and Doing
What She Did
to Improve Her Health.

To your good health,

Yocheved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

Why Americans NEED My Book about Coping with Medical Crises

B'SD

URGENT UPDATE

BAD news in the healthcare department. President Obama's proposed changes to the American economy threaten the free market that made the USA the Super Power it once was. That power is dwindling fast during a global economic freefall. Each American's personal power will shrivel with the USA's if Obama nationalizes the US banking system (as he intends to do) while rearranging private-sector priorities.

One of those very key private-sector priorities is HEALTH INSURANCE!

As in YOURS!

You might not be allowed
to make your own healthcare choices during Obama's administration.

Need clarification of this scary warning?
See DICK MORRIS: HERE COMES SOCIALISM...

Yup, you glommed on to that paragraph about endangered health care from the simplest of levels to the most complicated (i.e., expensive) levels as I did. Let's review it one more time:

"But it is the healthcare system that will experience the most dramatic and traumatic of changes. The current debate between erecting a Medicare-like governmental single payer or channeling coverage through private insurance misses the essential point. Without a lot more doctors, nurses, clinics, equipment and hospital beds, health resources will be strained to the breaking point. The people and equipment that now serve 250 million Americans and largely neglect all but the emergency needs of the other 50 million will now have to serve everyone. And, as government imposes ever more Draconian price controls and income limits on doctors, the supply of practitioners and equipment will decline as the demand escalates. Price increases will be out of the question, so the government will impose healthcare rationing, denying the older and sicker among us the care they need and even barring them from paying for it themselves. (Rationing based on income and price will be seen as immoral.)"

My advice?
I suggest that you buy my book (politicking is not my thing. I suggest that you PRAY!).

Click on
I gotta buy Yocheved's book, filled with resource information about free and reduced-price 1. medications, 2. medical care, 3. medical appliances and lessons for developing sound coping skills.

Yes, Americans will have to find out, all on your own, how to get the best possible healthcare for yourself and for your loved ones. The new American president will be limiting how much healthcare you'll be permitted to receive under his auspices.

Read newspapers.

Speak with healthcare professionals (WOW are they at risk for losing options about how to help you. Plus, their lowered incomes and higher malpractice insurance rates will make providing excellent health care to you even harder! They won't be able to afford to stay in business).

Listen to Talk Radio. The hosts of every political persuasion are discussing the looming health insurance crisis.

As if medical problems weren't difficult enough.


Praying for your safety and good health,

Yojeved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life