Women have been getting an earful from the healthcare industry this week. One second the healthcare industry is telling women to get yearly mammograms after 40 years old, the next it’s after 50 years old. One second women are hearing to get pap smears yearly after the age of 18, the next they’re being told to wait until they’re 21 and to get the pap smear every two or three years. What’s next? Drinking heavily during pregnancy is good for the baby and calcium for bone strength is just a myth?

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Mammogram guidelines. The controversy over what your insurance should cover and what you should be doing in the way of preventative cancer health has been fueled by a new release from the United States Preventive Services Task Force. Their new stance, many believe, could be potentially harmful to millions of women not just in the U.S., but around the globe.

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Much like the credit card industry is raising interest rates before the Credit Card Act 2009 goes into effect and changes things, prescription drug are dramatically raising prescription drug prices before the health care reform bill makes it through the Senate. It’s a shady business, especially when these exact same drug companies made a promise to President Obama, and the American people, to shave off $8 million from prescription drug costs.

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The Fry’s and Safeway strike in Arizona has been averted, for now. Breaking news this morning claims that union talks have been successful, and some sort of agreement has been reached. But what was the whole debacle about anyways? Health care, of course.

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I was pulling for Shay Sorrels last night, figuring that as the one woman who needed to be on The Biggest Loser more than anyone else, she’d be the easy pick to stay. But, then again, it is just a game.Shay Sorrels was voted off of The Biggest Loser last night, to the surprise of everyone watching. This morning, she is topping Google’s Trends for most searched word of the morning.

Shay Sorrels, went onto the Biggest Loser campus weighing 476 lbs, and when she left last night, after breaking a Biggest Loser weight loss record, she is now at 328 lbs. Her remarkable transformation was made possible by her amazing trainers, nutritionists, and, yes, doctors on the Biggest Loser Ranch.

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Veterans day is just around the corner, and we want you to get an early start on showing your veterans your appreciation. Do you know what you and your family is going to do for Veterans Day? There are a multitude of events happening across the nation this week, and the No Insurance Club wants you to get involved and show your support for our troops. Here’s what you can get involved with:

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The healthcare reform bill squeaked through the House this weekend by a vote of 220-215. A lot was given up, and a lot was said during the soap-opera-like final discussions on the bill, but in the end it was passed and it moves onto the Senate, where it will no doubt meet some even tougher times.

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Let’s talk about health care, because face it, that’s what we do. Sure, we blog about the health care crisis and politics, and we dabble in stirring the pot here and there, but beneath it all, at the core of what the No Insurance Club does, is promote affordable health care. It’s that simple.

The No Insurance Club began when a doctor in small-town Arizona realized that there was a better way to give his family patients the care they needed. There was a better way to make time to spend with them during their visits, lower their costs, and give them the treatments they deserved. I guess you could say it’s a cross between concierge medicine and your regular family physicians’ plan, but with the No Insurance Club you still get the VIP treatment for half the cost.

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Let’s talk executive physicals and why some people love to give them a bad rap. If you watch The Biggest Loser, you know exactly what an executive physical is, because I imagine is pretty much the same thing. When the contestants get their first real exam, they are put through a variety of tests, machines, scans, and procedures to evaluate every single cell in their bodies. The test can tell how old their body truly is beneath all the layers, how strong their heart is, what illnesses they have that they didn’t even know about, and much, much more.

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Maybe it’s because everyone is a bit stressed out about the H1N1 virus, but a very odd term has popped up on Google’s top trends this morning; automysophobia. What is automysophobia? It sounds like a made-up word, maybe a phobia of automobiles, but it’s a reality for many people.

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