CELEBRATING VALENTINE’S DAY RESPONSIBLY

We have all heard of the morning after pill.  The better, more respectful term to use is postcoital contraception.  Some choices are better than others.

Ulipristal is effective, but hasn’t shown to have advantages over other drugs.  An older, well tested postcoital contraception pill active ingredient is levonogestrel.

There is a sensitive time period for the application of the morning after pill.  How long is the morning of the morning after?  Well, levonorgestrel is recommended to be utilized up to 5 days after the unprotected intercourse has taken place. 

Supposed you had a Ciroc Valentine’s Day.  The grace period can be extended to February 19, 2012.  Safely, the drug has also been approved for use during the first 3 days.

You got the twisted.  Emergency contraception medicine is not a synonym for ‘abortion pill.’  The set treatment phase gives the term ‘emergency’.  Morning after is termed ‘postcoital’.  So, the emergency contraception pill is to be administered following sex without propalactics, or other safety applications.  The purpose is to prevent unwanted pregnancy. The synonym is ‘morning after’ pill. 

The abortion pill is for women who have already confirmed that they are pregnant.  The abortion pill enables the individual to end an early pregnancy. It is administered 4 to 7 weeks after becoming pregnant.

Over the counter levonorgestrel is available in several brands.  One brand is Plan B One-Step which is a single tablet containing 1.5 mg of levonorgestrel.   Another brand is Next Choice which is taken as two doses.  Each dose contains 0.75 mg of levonorgestrel. The doses are to be 12 hours apart.  It is possible to combine the two into one single dose.  Doctors are able to use the copper-releasing intrauterine device (IUD).  The IUD may be used as an alternative emergency contraception method. The device is inserted by your health care provider within 5 days of irresponsible copulation. The device can be removed after your next period.  The device alternatively can be left in place to provide ongoing birth control.  Emergency contraception is most effective within 24 hours of sex. Afterwards, the emergency contraception may still prevent pregnancy for up to 5 days.

Now that we have all heard of the morning after pill, VALENTINE’S DAY can be a exactly what you have been dreaming of.

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Nursing Home Patients being used.

     Today, an article entitled, National hospice company accused of fraud, on 'Health care on msnbc.com' by Jordan Rau, KHN Kaiser Health News, reported that a national hospice company was simply 'IN IT TO WIN IT'. 

     These are nursing home patients.  That is foul play.

"The whistleblowers contend that large numbers of AseraCare hospice patients are discharged while alive: 48 percent of those cared for by the Monroeville, Ala., branch and 79 percent of patients enrolled in the Mobile, Ala., branch. “It is hardly plausible that such a high percentage of Defendants’ hospice enrollees would be discharged alive unless such patients were nonterminal and fraudulently enrolled from the outset,” the lawsuit charges" (Rau, J. KHN 1/5/12', National hospice company accused of fraud)

     The company is AseraCare, owned by the national company Golden Living.  The FEDs are suing.  They were alleging that there were numersous pressures involved for enrollments.  People not in need of hospice were being placed into hospice so that AseraCare could increase their profit margins.

     No matter how the government words the significant laws, there is simply no temptation for abusing the laws.  Companies can't justify their misappropriations of hospice business.

     AseraCare claims the 'whistleblowers' are just sharks.  There is a False Claims Act that entitles the person turning in the lawbreaker to receive a part of the final sum that the government wins in a lawsuit towards the defendant.  Yes, they should get paid.  It takes efforts to blow a whistle.

     AseraCare drifted below the cap placed by Medicare on hospice collections from patients stays.  Even at $22,386 capped in 2008, AseraCare wanted more. 

"In a quest for new patients, AseraCare sent employees to "patrol hospitals," ride along with "Meals-on-Wheels" and go "door-to-door"in housing run by the Department of Housing and Urban Development" (attorney Jim Barger, National hospice company accused of fraud)

     It has to be difficult working for companies with such agendas.  Jobs aren't are easily acquired in our economy.  Somebody has to be responsible for this legally, personally, religiously, and rightfully, though.