So you have to pay $3,500 for laser eye surgery, $6000 for ceramic tooth implants because either you don’t have insurance or it’s not covered by it? You may not have to worry because your health provider might have a zero-interest financing plan. Such sales incentives familiar at car dealerships and furniture stores, has found it’s way to doctors’ and dentists’ offices reports the NYTimes.
The state of Mississippi has a 30.6 percent obesity rate says the Trust for America’s Health in their 2007 Obesity Report. Trailing Mississippi is West Virginia at 2nd, Alabama at 3rd, Louisiana at 4th, and South Carolina and Tennessee which are tied for fifth place. And coming in at absolute last place is Colorado with only a 17.69 percent obesity rate. But don’t count Colorado as a light weight, 54.2 percent of their population is overweight. They are capable of reaching the top 5 at anytime.
According to this article, California Inmates can receive even better Health Care than more than the 6.5 non-inmate Californians. And according to this report, that’s more than 20 percent of the non-elderly population.
Due to a federal take over of the prison medical system in California, the new man in charge, Robert Sillen threatened to “back up the Brink’s truck” to the state’s treasury, if need be, to finance better medical services for the states’s 173,000 inmates.
In the August 12, 2007 NYTimes article, a Dr. Timothy Lepore is profiled as the Jack of All Trades Medical fixit guy in the city of Nantucket, Massachusetts. Described as Nantucket’s only surgeon, he’s also the Nantucket’s medical examiner, school physician, football team doctor, Lyme disease expert and identifier of excavated Indian bones.