Diet and Nutrition. Natural Health, and Healthy Living

Only a few months ago, Goldman Sachs was touted as an incredible bastion of strength in the face of the credit crunch. Sure some other institutions might have been suffering, but Goldman was savvy enough to earn record profits in 2007. The average bonus was a whopping $600,000 per employee. Then very suddenly Goldman and pretty much the whole industry collapsed. The federal government has stepped in, and a partial nationalization of the financial industry is underway. That’s not the free market, it’s socialism.

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The Wall Street Journalreports that the Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont) will unveil today his plan to overhaul the U.S. health care system.

Laura Meckler, of The Journal, reports the plan is very similar to the one Obama touted on the campaign trail with one major exception: Baucus wants to require all individuals to buy health insurance.

Given this, one could probably more accurately say the plan resembles Sen. Hillary Clinton's plan. Where is Clinton in thses discussions? Time has an update on the health care reform veteran.

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The buyers of medical devices aren't very good shoppers. They lack the kind of information about technologies that would help them make value-based purchasing decisions, according to James Robinson in the most recent issue of Health Affairs.

This issue is so important because medical technology is the No. 1 factor driving up health spending in the U.S., according to the Center for Studying Health System Change in their recent report, High and Rising Health Care Costs: Demystifying U.S. Health Care Spending.

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Ahem... If you've been around Medspa MD for a while you'll have noticed some recent changes in the way things look and how some areas work. The forums have a new look and usability and (finally) when you click on a link to the right you'll be taken directly to that comment. (whew...)

Of even grater import is that Medical Spa MD Members will be recieveing the first of what I hope to be a long list of benefits for joining the site. (Join Medical Spa MD here.)

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