Saturday, August 30, 2014

Ebola, can we stop it?

Lately all we've seen on the news is updates on the enormous Ebola Virus outbreak in West Africa, but have you heard about the new potential cure?  Since the virus seems to be spreading like wildfire infecting many healthcare workers and natives in West Africa and Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria after starting in December;  scientists have begun to develop a cure that is slowly starting to be tested on patients.  Today numbers have risen tremendously since the initial outbreak in December to approximately 2,600 people infected and 1,500 fatalities.  Will this cure work? or will the outbreak continue spread.  The healthcare workers have been setting up many quarantine stations and health centers to treat newly infected patients, this may be good enough to slow down the virus from spreading even further but it will still take some time to fully implement this newly developed antidote.

EVERA.  Everyone should feel this good about healthcare.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/27/health/ebola-outbreak

Thursday, August 28, 2014

Obamacare, for better or worse?

When you hear "Obamacare" what comes to mind? Helpful or hurtful?  Since Obamacare was implemented in March of 2010 there has been many disagreements between individuals on whether it was good or bad.  A recent investigation has shown that the cause of the HealthCare.gov website to crash last fall was due to management errors in the Obama Administration.  Failures such as these are what is providing americans with a doubtful opinion of the whole healthcare system as well as the Obama Administration in its entirety.   Some confusion was caused by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) when they continuously changed the marching orders for contractors who built the computerized sign-up system that is used in HealthCare.gov.  This miscommunication ended up causing millions of dollars in additional costs and americans to lose access to the healthcare website.  This investigation heavily exposed major flaws in the Obama Administration from how these mistakes were made when they could have been avoided.


EVERA.  Everyone should feel this good about healthcare.

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/30/obamacare-website_n_5634590.html?utm_hp_ref=obamacare