Dear Elle, I have a concern about laser hair removal. You advertise it all the time on the radio and would like to know if the laser treatment leaves any scars at all. I am light skinned and want to make sure before I do it that it won't leave any scars. Let me know. Thanks S.C.
anne9011
I AM VERY ANGRY AT UR RADIO STATION,YOU ADVERTISE DRAMATIC WEIGHT LOSE,,MY DAUGHTER WHO WHO ALSO IS A LISTENER GOT OVER EXCITED WHEN SHE HEARD YOUR ADVERTISEMENT ON HOW THE CREW IN YOUR RADIO STATION ARE LOSING WEIGHT AND HOW ITS A GREAT WAY TO LOSE WEIGHT AND ITS SOMETHING THAT WORKS ...HOW EVER I CALLED TODAY BECAUSE MY DAUGHTER HAS BEEN BEGGING ME ALL WEEK..I CALLED 6 TIMES 2 IN MORNING-1 AFTERNOON AND 3 TIMES TONIGHT,A LADY ANSWER THE PHONE ALL SIX TIME'S AND SAID PLEASE HOLD,SHE HAD ME ON HOLD SO TO LONG SO I JUST HUNG UP THE PHONE,,TONIGHT SHE HAD MY DAUGHTER ON HOLD [WHO BY THE WAY IS 14 YRS OLD] 1ST TIME 10 MIN..I MADE HER HANG UP TILL SHE TOLD ME THEY ARE OPEN TILL 9;00 PM TODAY...SO I CALLED BACK AND NO LIE I WAS ON HOLD FOR 16 MIN BECAUSE MY PHONE SAID SO...SO I CALLED BACK AGAIN BECAUSE AT THIS TIME I WAS HEATED, THE GIRL ANSWERS AGAIN ..PLEASE HOLD..I SAID YOU HOLD ON I CALLED 6 TIMES ALL YOU DO I KEEP ME ON THE PHONE FOR A LONG TIME AND YOU PEOPLE NEVER NEVER ANSWER ALL I WANNA DO IS MAKE APPOINTMENT..SHE SAID OK HOLD ON...ACTING LIKE SHE WAS GONNA GET SOMEONE TO TALK TO ME AND PUT ME ON HOLD FOR 20 MIN...I AM SO ANGRY RIGHT NOW..
cbsradioatlanta
Hello Anne, I’m sorry you had a bad experience. To be put on hold like that you might have been calling the listener hotline. We don’t actually set up the appointments for Dramatic Weight Loss but we do have a web page with their info. http://www.v103webmag.com/ask-...
4480 N. Shallowford Road, Suite. 206 - Dunwoody, GA 30338 - Phone (770) 394-9991 - info@dramaticweightloss.com Hours: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday: 9:30-5:30 - Tuesday: 9:30-9:00 - Select Saturdays: 8:00-12:00 By Appointment Only
Thank you.
drnoellesolomon
I think it is important for young mothers to know the importants and health issues surrounding breastfeeding and the care of their newborns. I would love to come on the show to discuss this subject which I am passionate about and young mothers are the least interested in. As a result of lack of breastfeeding the mothers (definitely not all mothers) are not bonding with their children, therefore the breakdown in communication,e motion, etc.This is a very important topic I would love to share with your listening audience because the majority of them are young mothers.... and fathers.
joycepickney
Hi,
Just making you aware about a Health and Wellness Fair which will take place for the Westend Community on Saturday, May 1,2010 from11:00 A.M. until 2:00 P.M. The activity will take place at J.E. Brown Middle School located at 765 Peeples Street. For more details, please contact the school at (404) 802-6800.
Thanks
J. Pickney
Dereck
Health care reform in our country is long overdue. We spend more money on health care than any country in the world, and we are the only industrialized country that has not managed to provide coverage to all of its people.
How do other countries cover all their people?
Many people think that countries in Europe all use a Canadian “single payer” model and that universal coverage in this country will lead inevitably to “single payer” here. The truth is, most of the European countries actually use competing health plans to provide coverage -- not a Canadian “single payer” type of approach. The Netherlands, Austria, Germany, and Switzerland all use competing health plans as their coverage funding mechanism. Each of those countries requires every citizen to buy coverage -- because they all believe in “solidarity” and solidarity in Europe means that everyone gets coverage and everyone pays for coverage.
Poor people in Europe have their coverage subsidized -- so it is always affordable. Most European countries use a payroll tax collection process to collect their health coverage premium, and most European countries keep a linkage between people’s employment and their coverage because, frankly, that is the easiest way to gather premiums from workers.
In France, there is a single government run plan for everyone, but the benefits of that plan are incomplete, so 92 percent of the population buys private coverage there as well. Private plans in France are usually built around industries and employer groups. A great many are co-ops.
So the model used in this country by the state of Massachusetts looks a lot more like Holland or Switzerland than Canada -- and that Massachusetts model is pretty close to the model that we are about to use here for the whole country. The Massachusetts plan isn’t perfect, but it covers a lot more people than the old approach covered.
Overall, we can celebrate the fact that this country is finally on the path to universal coverage.
We can particularly celebrate the fact that 15 million Americans who are our poorest citizens will finally be eligible for Medicaid. Our very poor people need Medicaid. Until now, 15 million poor people were not Medicaid eligible. That is changing, and that is a very good thing.
The other key thing that we can celebrate now is that with insurance reform moving off the front burner as the focus of this country’s political energy, we can finally move on to the huge opportunities that exist to do actual care improvement.
Insurance reform has been so dominant as the center of the reform debate for the last several years that it has pushed care reform off the policy agenda. Care reform opportunities are huge. We Americans have over 75 percent of all care costs coming from people with chronic conditions -- with 10 percent of the total patients needing 80 percent of our total care resources -- and America is getting care right for patients with chronic conditions barely 50 percent of the time. We should do a lot better than that.
Care delivery in America is too often untracked, uncoordinated, unlinked, and singularly unfocused.
That is really sad. It’s also extremely expensive -- because bad care for chronic care patients with multiple conditions costs a lot more money than good care for those same patients.
So now -- with insurance reform finally embedded in a bill that is passed and signed -- it’s time for this country to figure out what we can do next to create better care.
What do we need?
We need team care, focused care, connected care, and we need to start building a culture of health for the whole country.
Insurance providers like Kaiser Permanente can help. They can model team care. They can also show that you can reduce heart attacks and strokes and diabetic complications with patient-focused, coordinated care.
Kaiser can show that health improvement works, and they can show that health care IT is a tool for care support just like a stethoscope or an MRI.
Kaiser can model safe hospitals -- and we can help teach other hospitals to be safe.
Kaiser is not perfect, but they are doing a lot of things really well -- and they are creating the tool kit and many of the learning processes that America will need to get to the next level of reform. They can use their incredible database to figure out what works, and can take a lead role on both caregiver/patient connectivity and optimal levels of convenience and service for the people they serve.
Insurance reform was needed. Care reform is the next function -- the next goal -- the next big thing.
The country needs us to be all that we can be - We can make a difference -- and there are people in Washington, D.C., who want to work to make care better for everyone.
Two final thoughts on the insurance reform piece:
1) If the new insurance purchasing exchanges are well designed and well run, they will give us a great new way to enroll members. Direct competition patient by patient should be a good thing for us if the exchanges are set up as well as they should be set up. We will try to help make that happen.
2) The Medicare Advantage payment approach for the future will have quality goals built into it. For the first time in the history of this country, payment in health care will actually be increased for quality. This is a good thing. The new Medicare Advantage quality bonuses will encourage every health plan who enrolls Medicare Advantage patients to do better in the quality of their care.
We should be well positioned to make those bonuses part of the resources we will have to deliver care. I will write more about that when the process is clearly understood. We aren’t happy with the overall reductions in the Medicare Advantage payment levels and we will face some revenue pressures as a result -- but we are happy that quality will directly be rewarded, and we will continue to work on both the Medicare Advantage payment levels and to help spread the premium tax expense across all payers. That work needs to be done as well.
But overall, the time has come to focus on care. A new door has opened. We can now move past insurance reform to care reform.
It should be a time of challenge and opportunity.
This week I am celebrating all the people in KP who put our new computer tools in place, put our care improvement agendas in place, and have worked so well to make the quality of care for our members so solid that we can regard quality bonuses as a huge opportunity rather than a huge threat.
