Medicare Covers Yoga For Heart Disease

www.cnn.com:

Medicare, the government health insurance program for Americans 65 and older, covers the Ornish program, which teaches a plant-based, meatless diet, meditation and regular exercise. The program was officially declared an intensive cardiac rehab program in 2010, and the first patients started in May 2011.

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[mzkitti]

03:19 PM on 02/29/2012

Here’s the rundown of this week’s battle in the conservative war on birth control and women’s health care.

Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) and allies including Sens. Scott Brown (R-MA), Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH). are trying to pass Legislation that would allow ANY employer or insurance company to deny ANY essential or preventative health care benefit for essentially ANY reason. Benefits that could be denied include:
contraception
cancer screenings
diabetes screenings
STD screenings
prenatal care
mental health coverage
This bill is so extreme that if your boss believed in healing exclusively through the power of prayer, he would have sufficient legal grounds to deny you coverage for various medical conditions. If your boss had a moral objection to single mothers, he could deny unmarried pregnant women prenatal coverage. Or if your boss had a “moral” objection to overweight people, diabetes screenings would not have to be covered.
Please - pay attention. You need this knowledge to protect yourself and your loved ones. SPEAK UP!

[mosterannie]

09:26 AM on 02/28/2012

This is an outrage~! YOGA is a direct link to Hinduism that is infiltrating the WEST. If they pay for that, they should certainly NOT persecute Bible-believers who believe in prayer to the only wise God who made heaven and earth!

[susanbsbi]

09:01 PM on 02/27/2012

proper technical way to due yoga is great for heat patients. $ n70 is high, but that is in the DC are, down in Florida Yoga is considered a Therapy session and we have to due a co-pay of $29 per session. I took advantage of it and I am eating better and have lost weight and now I joined a gym which has it.

It is better to pay up front a smaller amount than after the fact with 10 of thousand in hospital bills. The medicare now has preventative check ups, that we don.t have to pay our co-pay as along as we do them on a yearly bases. That are the checks up for Breast cancer, colon cancer and prostate cancer. Also we have a lower co=pay on heart related test each year.

So those of you ?itch about what is being paid, think about your parents who are on medicare and listen to their ?itching about the cost of co-pays and medicine

[mspat44417]

11:05 PM on 02/26/2012

I don't think that should be paid by medicare...There are other cheaper ways...You can get so much of that off the internet...

[LateForTheSky]

11:52 AM on 02/27/2012

I do yoga. I'm an atheist. I also meditate. Ain't nothing spiritual about it.

[Viable Way]

02:39 PM on 02/27/2012

Does it matter if it works? Is your religious faith so shallow that you will be turned HINDU if you do yoga?