QUESTIONS ASKING FOR PERSONALIZED MEDICAL ADVICE ARE OFF-TOPIC. CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN. Healthcare refers to the system or systems used to deliver medical care to patients. It may be a monolithic, government controlled system (like the NHS in some parts of the UK) or a mixed system of providers and insurers (as in the US). Healthcare is the way the delivery of medical science is organised (at least for the purposes of tagging on this site).
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Are these claims about Japan’s health system true?
The series of claims in the image below has been getting shared around Facebook and are posted from the "Illuminati Exposed" page.
The claims are in the image but I've listed them here
100% of Japanese people have health coverage, regardless of…
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Do facemasks cause CO2 poisoning?
I came across this video on BitChute purporting to test the CO2 levels of what appears to be a KN95 (a Non-NIOSH Approved Respirator) whilst the mask is in use.
The video shows a device displaying CO2 levels rising, next to an image depicting…
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Does the US spend more public money (i.e. tax/capita) on Health Care than other developed countries?
The author John Green on a YouTube post Why are American Health Care costs so high? makes the (referenced) claim that US public health expenditure per capita, is higher than most other developed countries - even where those countries then provide…
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Will the healthcare premiums of a 64 year old making $26,500 a year grow to $14,600 under the GOP Health Care Plan?
This picture was posted on the Facebook page, The Other 98%.
Is this really true? Will the premium be more than half of the income of a 64 year old under the proposed new system? And is the old rate true?
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Does the Red Cross sell $2.1 billion worth of blood annually?
This recent image on cracked.com claims that the Red Cross grosses USD 2.1 billion a year from selling blood. It also claims that the Red Cross is a business which sells donated blood for $400 a pint.
Are there any verifiable sources for this claim…
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Do doctors "get more money if somebody dies from Covid”?
Source (one of many).
At a rally in Michigan on Friday (Oct 30th, 2020), President Trump repeated an
extraordinary and unfounded claim that American doctors were
profiteering from coronavirus deaths.
“You know our doctors get more money if somebody…
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Do 643,000 Americans go bankrupt every year due to medical bills?
I've been seeing a specific graphic circulating all over Instagram for the past few days. Here's Kim Kardashian posting it on her story.
Two things seem odd about this graphic. The first is the 643,000 figure. I know that the American Health Care…
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Are obese patients in the US commonly sent to zoos for CT scans?
Nothing like the Daily Mail for raising an eyebrow:
The bizarre requests to use CT scanners, normally intended for four-legged animals, at the UK’s leading veterinary college in north London were revealed as hospitals face pressure to adapt beds…
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Is this shoe lacing technique effective at preventing blackened toe nails?
See:
Reddit: LPT: How to lace your running shoes (June 7, 2015)
Reddit: Black toes from ultimate? (May 20, 2015)
Runner's World: How To Lace Shoes: Prevent Black Toe Nails (March 4, 2011)
They link to these photos:
The claim is that this lacing…
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Can the SARS-CoV-2 virus float in the air for up to 3 hours?
This doctor on YouTube claims that the SARS-CoV-2 virus can float in the air for up to 3 hours.
If it lands in the air, the virus can land on a particle and stay floating there for up to 3 hours.
Is that true?
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Did "the UK court system abduct and murder a baby" with mitochondrial depletion syndrome?
According to a blog post by the Mises Institute:
...the court system in the United Kingdom, at the behest of National Health Service bureaucrats, abducted and murdered an 8-month-old baby...
...the courts in the UK ruled that Charlie Gard, against…
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Is more than 30% of US healthcare spending waste?
National healthcare spending in the USA consumes more than 18% of GDP and is growing rapidly. Europeans criticise the expense and relatively poor quality of the US system (for example, see this question: Is the US Newborn Mortality Rate higher than…
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Does wearing a face mask cause intermittent hypoxia?
There's a study that concluded that wearing face masks for extended periods of time (8h-10h) causes a hypoxia:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8152240/
COVID-19 virus has caused the world’s deadliest pandemic. Early April 2020, the…
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Did The Lancet publish an account of a woman who did not age?
Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the Christian Science religion, claimed in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures*, Ch. 8, p. 245:1-15:
The error of thinking that we are growing old, and the
benefits of destroying that illusion, are…
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Is the total cost of treating the uninsured in emergency rooms more expensive than government-subsidized urgent care would be in the US?
One of the claims I have frequently encountered in support of government intervention in providing health insurance that is more extensive than Medicare and Medicaid in the US, is that it will reduce the need for patients without insurance to use…
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