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Rashes and Scratches: How I’m Dealing With My Eczema – 2016 Edition

March 26, 2019May 2, 2016 by Money Beagle

I’ve had eczema for a few years now. It’s pretty rare, though not totally uncommon, to develop it as an adult. Typically children are more prone to it. Adults that have it tend to have had it as a kid, which wasn’t the case for me. In any case, it’s been an ongoing thing but as time has gone on, I’ve learned more and more ways to work through it.

Here are some of the recent activities in my ongoing battle with eczema.

Understand My Eczema Triggers

I don’t have breakouts all of the time, but when I do, I’ve found that there are often things that lead to them for me. All of these things are quite common as far as triggers go:

Money And Health: Money Should Never Be Top Priority

April 17, 2019March 21, 2016 by Money Beagle

Money is important. I don’t focus this blog exclusively on money or finance related articles, because I’ve been doing it for quite a few years now. I just don’t have it in me to crank out post after post about why everybody needs an emergency fund or how to get a mortgage. Those are great topics. But, there’s so much more, including some hard looks about money and health.

Sometimes it takes life to remind you that while money is certainly important, it isn’t your number one focus in life.

The Phone Call

A week ago Sunday, the family was out for breakfast when my phone rang. I looked and saw it was my parents. I sensed something was odd because we typically don’t talk during the daytime hours. We usually reserve our chats for the evening so that it’s a good chance that everybody is home and settled in.

Medicare Fraud With A Sickening Twist

April 23, 2019July 13, 2015 by Money Beagle

There’s an ongoing story that’s received a lot of local attention over the past few years, but I’m not sure how much national coverage it’s received. It really deserves attention just to put the word out there in hopes that such terrible acts are never committed again.

Typical Medicare Fraud

Defrauding Medicare is unfortunately a fact of life and probably will be for as long as the system exists. Typical fraud by a healthcare provider involves submitting bills for services that were never done, enhancing claims to include bogus items, or something along those lines.

This is dishonest, immoral, and it cheats taxpayers out of money, as money goes to pay for things that never happened, but a Farid Fata, a doctor here in the Detroit area took it one step further.

One terrible, sick step further.

Do You Brush Your Teeth During The Day?

April 23, 2019May 26, 2015 by Money Beagle

For just about all my life, I have brushed my teeth two times per day. I brush once in the morning after I wake up, and once in the evening before I go to bed. Outside of that, I never brushed during the day. Well, I would on days I went to the dentist. So, two times per year, I guess! After all, you don’t need to gross out your hygienist, right?

This has served me well, and for a long time. I would even kind of laugh to myself when I would see someone brushing their teeth in the bathroom at work.

But, after my latest cleaning, the thought popped into my head. Maybe a mid-day brush wouldn’t be a bad idea!

No Cavities!

Thankfully, I did not have any cavities during my cleaning, as those are pretty rare. However, my hygienist did say that I had one particular area that I needed to make sure I got a little closer, as she saw a little plaque buildup.

Impressions of Obamacare

May 6, 2019October 13, 2014 by Money Beagle

I recently had the opportunity to work through signing up for Obamacare, though it was not for me. A family member recently took on a new position, and since their employer does not offer health insurance, she needed to sign up for insurance using Obamacare. She asked for my help.

I won’t walk step by step through the process, since there are already a million articles out there about that, but wanted to share some of our shared impressions.

Do Everything By The Book And Still Get Screwed By Health Insurance

May 6, 2019October 8, 2014 by Money Beagle

Every time we think that we have health insurance figured out, we are proven that we are and will always be wrong.

You can do it all. Every step. Check it off. Verify it. Dot every i and cross every t.

Doesn’t matter.

The insurance companies will still manage to get you.

Actually, it’s not always the insurance companies. It’s more the laws and the medical profession as a whole.

In Network But, Oh, Just Kidding

The latest example I saw that just floored me was in a New York Times article last week where unsuspecting people need immediate medical care. They do the right thing. They head to their emergency room that they already know is in network and get the care that they need.