The Trench Reynolds Report

  • Home Depot and Walgreen’s cut health benefits because of Obamacare

    Home Depot Transitioning Part-Time Workers to Health Insurance Exchanges: Walgreens Drops Employee Health Insurance Coverage: Following in the footsteps of UPS national retail chains Home Depot and Walgreen’s have both announced drastic cuts to their employees’ health benefits. Home Depot is getting rid of healthcare coverage for their part-time employees while Walgreen’s is cutting healthcare…

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  • How Trench quit smoking with e-cigs

    I’ve been smoking since I was 15. That’s almost 30 years ago. I was officially diagnosed as being asthmatic 10 years ago. The combination of the two have caused me health problems in the past but nothing I couldn’t remedy on my own until a couple of months ago. About 2 months ago I had…

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  • What can Obamacare do for you?

    UPS cuts insurance to 15,000 spouses, blames Obamacare: UPS announced to its employees recently that they were eliminating benefits for the spouses of some 15,000 employees. This should not come as a shock to anyone. The only thing that should be shocking was that it was only 15,000. UPS is putting the blame squarely on…

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  • Do antidepressants cause Autism when taken by pregnant women?

    Antidepressant use in pregnancy may raise autism risk: Did you hear that? That was the sound of the anti-vaccination and anti-anti-depressant crowd having a collective orgasm. The anti-vaxxers have a history of using the boogeyman of Autism but this will be the new rallying cry for those who spread fear about anti-depressants. But I digress.…

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  • Forced health insurance ruled constitutional

    Federal appeals court rules health care reform bill is constitutional: This is the part where I remind you that I worked in the healthcare industry for 22 years. Not only have I worked for several major health insurance companies but I have also worked for medical practices and for a company that did annual enrollment…

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  • Primatene Mist discontinued because it hurts the Earth

    I’ve had asthma since my early 20s. I was officially diagnosed with it by a medical professional about 10 years ago. I’ve been on a few medications for it. I had been prescribed Advair and Albuterol inhalers and Singulair pills. Even when I did have health insurance coverage the prescriptions could still run pretty high.…

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  • Doctors turning away the children of idiots who won’t get their kids vaccinated

    This is an article about how some doctors in the US are declining treatment to children whose parents refuse to get them vaccinated. I say it’s about damn time and more if not all doctors are doing this. It’s the doctor’s damn right to protect his other patients from ill-informed, misguided, stupid, gullible Luddites who…

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  • Make anti-vaccine parents pay higher premiums

    Link Refusing to vaccinate a child is dangerous not just for that child but for entire communities. It’s precisely this point a colleague of mine was considering when he had the idea that parents who refuse to vaccinate their kids should pay substantially higher health insurance premiums. That is an awesome idea. It’s time to…

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  • Retracted autism study an ‘elaborate fraud,’ British journal finds

    Link An investigation published by the British medical journal BMJ concludes the study’s author, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, misrepresented or altered the medical histories of all 12 of the patients whose cases formed the basis of the 1998 study — and that there was “no doubt” Wakefield was responsible. Can we finally move on and get…

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