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Changing Health Care

Jo Ann Fields, MD, a primary care general internist, has been practicing medicine for sixteen years in Kent County. She believes we should all work together to make health reform work.

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	Obamacare Will End Catastrophic Health Care Bills and Bankruptcies Critics are saying that Obamacare will be extremely costly. I say our current health care system is already extremely costly and we are already paying for it. Obamacare will hold down cost increases ...	480
	The Future of Primary Care Medicine First, every reader please vote for Delaware's own Elena Delle Donne for the Naismith Women's College Player of the Year Trophy. Vote by texting to VOTE (8683) beginning March 25. Naismith Tro ...	652
	The ceramic Christmas tree that my grandmom made for me I still have this twenty inch ceramic Christmas tree. It's green. There is a light bulb inside. When you turn on the light bulb, the colorful ornaments shine against the green ceramic. My grandmom H ...	680
	What's at Stake for Health Reform If Obama Loses Mitt Romney says if he becomes President he will repeal Obamacare or at the very least repeal large portions of Obamacare. A recent experience with a patient makes it clear to me what is at stake if ...	618
	Women Who Marry Alcoholics What does it say about a woman who marries an alcoholic? I'm talking about a woman who knowingly enters a new marriage to a man who is actively abusing alcohol? The American Medical Association say ...	1868
	Adult Day Care Centers for Alzheimer's Dementia People who are taking care of a spouse or a parent with Alzheimer's dementia know what I mean when I say most days you just want to cry. Your heart breaks to see your mother slowly but surely decline ...	1328
	Deceptive Marketing by Medicare Advantage Plans Senior citizens, Medicare beneficiaries, be on guard against aggressive marketing and advertising from Medicare Advantage Plans like Bravo. One thing that private companies can do much better than ...	868
	How to avoid an argument about abortion Avoid the subject. Smile and walk away when somebody starts to talk about it. This is the only way I have found to maintain peace among friends when some of us are pro-choice and others are pro-life. ...	526
	It's not socialized medicine I disagree with the Letter to the Editor 4/6/12 “Socialized health care is not American!” Health reform is very much happening at the state and local levels, not just the federal level, and not just b ...	669
	United States Supreme Court and Obamacare Three days in the U.S. Supreme Court. Momentous. Supreme Court hearings on the Affordable Care Act, although now I hear it is ok to call it Obamacare. Obamacare is no longer a pejorative term since ...	518
	Affordable Care Act - Two years old and growing Two years ago the new Affordable Care Act (the ACA) was passed and meaningful health care reform began. I would like to summarize what I see happening with the Affordable Care Act here in Delaware. ...	509
	Control Health Care Costs-Keep the Independent Payment Advisory Board The new health reform law, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), establishes an Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) with authority to issue recommendations to reduce growth in Medicare spending. One of ...	381
	Women's Rights to Contraceptives and Family Planning I am disappointed in Jim Flood Sr.’s opinion piece in the Dover Post 3/7/12 where he talks about a “contraception mandate” in the new health reform law as if insurance coverage for birth control pills ...	629
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