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A Victory for Consumer Protections and Health Insurance Freedom
Last year, the Departments of Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services worked within federal law to expand consumer protections and restore Americans ’ freedom to choose the health insurance that meets their needs. On Friday, a federal court rebuffed an effort to block those protections and force Americans into ObamaCare. First, a little background.In 1996, Congress exempted “short-term limited duration insurance” from federal health insurance regulations. Congress never defined what “short-term” or “limited duration” meant. So in 1997, the Clinton administration gave meaning to those terms by decreeing...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 21, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Michael F. Cannon Source Type: blogs
Reducing Healthcare Costs; Surgery at a Selected Hospital and Pharma Tourism
Individuals and self-insured companies have adopted various strategies to reduce the rising cost of healthcare for themselves and their employees. A recent article discussed howWalmart was flying employees who were candidates for particular surgical procedures to selected, distant hospitals for evaluation (see:Walmart Flies Employees to Top Hospitals for Surgeries in a Bid to Cut Healthcare Costs). Below is an excerpt from it:Walmart ’s answer [to rising healthcare costs] is its six-year-oldCenters of Excellence (COE) program. In partnership with third-party administrator Health Design Plus (HDP), Walmart directly contra...
Source: Lab Soft News - July 15, 2019 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Cost of Healthcare Healthcare Innovations Healthcare Insurance Medical Consumerism Pharmaceutical Industry Public Health Quality of Care Source Type: blogs
Health Insurance 101 -- yet again
I just cannot understand why it is so difficult to get people to grasp what seems to me a simple idea. Let ' s try one more time.The purpose of insurance is to spread risk. That ' s the essence of the concept. Health insurance (or health care insurance as some prefer to say) is different from other kinds of insurance in some ways, so let ' s just talk about health insurance.Health care costs are unpredictable. It is true that there are risk factors associated with some conditions, most notably smoking tobacco. Nevertheless, no matter how healthful your lifestyle, you still just might need expensive health care. You might b...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 14, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Mental Illness Advocacy Meets Two Truths and a Lie
This podcast strives to accomplish many things: we hope to be entertaining and educational, and we hope to make our listeners think about their own lives — or about the life of someone they know who lives with mental illness.
There is, however, an easier way to describe this podcast. It’s an advocacy effort led by two people who are award-winning advocates nationally. In this episode, our hosts each tell three stories about their mental health advocacy work. Two of them are true and one of them is a lie. Is truth stranger than fiction? You decide. Listen Now!
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Source: World of Psychology - June 10, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: A Bipolar, a Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Tags: A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Schizophrenia Source Type: blogs
8 Ways to Write Away Your Worries
You are worried about a litany of things, and it feels like these worries are pelting you in the head like balls from a pitching machine.
You are worried about your upcoming presentation. You are worried your house won’t sell. You are worried the weather will be terrible on your vacation. You are worried your daughter is upset with you. You are worried you said something offensive to your new colleague. You are worried you didn’t pay an important bill—or do something else that’s important. And you are worried about a hundred other things that you’re worried you won’t remember—or can’t forget.
Lynn R. Zakeri...
Source: World of Psychology - June 9, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Creativity General Habits Mental Health and Wellness Self-Help Stress Brainstorming Creative Outlet Creative Writing Source Type: blogs
Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps
Each year 2-3 million non-melanoma and 132,000
melanoma skin cancers occur globally according to statistics from the
WHO. Thus, every tool has to be deployed for early detection and
intervention. As smartphone penetration already reached the quarter of the
Earth’s population, smartphone apps seem to be a viable way to go against skin
conditions. Here, we collected the top dermatology apps to aid your digital
skin care.
As smartphones take over the world, dermatology apps
multiply
As technology continues to advance, so too does its
accessibility to the general population. In 2013, only 56 percent of Americans
owned ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 4, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Telemedicine & Smartphones dermatology Health Healthcare Innovation patient patient information skin smart health smart healthcare smartphone apps technology Source Type: blogs
Healthcare In Estonia: Where Grandmas Go For Genetic Data
Imagine a country where citizens will have their genetic profiles integrated into the digital health system with individual risk scores and pharmacogenomic information, so when they go to the doctor, they will get fully personalized, genetic risk-based diagnosis, medication, and preventive measures. That’s where healthcare in Estonia will arrive soon. They started to build their digital health system 20 years ago, and within the next years, the Baltic country will start to reap the benefits of a transparent, blockchain-based, digital health system hooked on genetic data. The first fully digitized republic certainly sets ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 16, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Policy analysis digital digital democracy digital health digital health strategy digital health system digital healthcare Estonia genetics genomics personalized Personalized medicine pharmacogenomi Source Type: blogs
Reducing Churn to Increase Value in Health Care: Solutions for Payers, Providers, and Policymakers
Conclusion
Churn has vexed insurance executives for decades and is considered by many at this point an inevitable challenge. But now that the value-based movement has led to a refocusing on social determinants of health, incentives are aligned to address this issue. This solution may be a key step towards a healthcare system focused on investing in health rather than in treating illness.
Niko has a background in research and consulting and enjoys writing about and solving problems facing the US health care industry.
Saeed has more than 25 years of health information technology experience, with a track record of ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 15, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Economics The Business of Health Care Uncategorized Churn health innovation Health policy health20 niko lehman-white saeed aminzadeh Source Type: blogs
Private Health Insurance Organizations Shouldn ’t Dictate Quality of Care
By LYNLY JEANLOUIS
Health insurance companies are standing
in the way of many patients receiving affordable, quality healthcare. Insurance
companies have been denying patient claims for medical care, all while increasing
monthly premiums for most Americans. Many of the nation’s largest healthcare payers
are private “for-profit” companies that are focused on generating profits
through the healthcare system. Through a rigorous approval/denial system, health
insurance companies can dictate the type care patients receive. In some cases,
this has resulted in patients foregoing life-saving treatments or procedures. &nbs...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 7, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Health insurance Lynly Jeanlouis private health insurance Quality improvement Quality of care Source Type: blogs
A Millennial Doctor ’s Experience with Industrial Medicine
By TALAL HILAL, MD
A survey of 200 physicians under the age of 35 showed that 56% reported unhappiness with the current state of medicine. That number didn’t seem surprising to me at first. I was not particularly “happy” at the time of reading this survey either.
I’ve aspired to become an
oncologist for as long as I can remember. In oncology, despite my inability to
cure, I can always try to heal. I form connections with patients and their
families as they embark on a journey that is quite often their last. I learn
from my patients as much as, and at times more than, they learn from me.
But all of this is...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 6, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Physicians physician burnout Talal Hilal US Healthcare system Source Type: blogs
BioethicsTV (April 21-May 2, 2019): #NewAmsterdam, #TheResident, #GreysAnatomy
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.
Exploring bioethical issues in television medical dramas
New Amsterdam (Season 1; Episode 19): Privatizing the VA; The Resident (Season 2; Episode 22): Organ buying; Grey’s Anatomy(Season 15; Episode 23): Insurance Fraud
New Amsterdam (Season 1; Episode 19): Privatizing the VA
A veteran has a stroke while driving and injures a police officer. We learn that the driver was diagnosed two years earlier with bladder cancer, which has led to his current stroke. He could not get treatment because the VA closed the urology division in a rush toward privatization.…
Source: blog.bioethics.net - May 3, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Craig Klugman Tags: BioethicsTV Featured Posts Organ Transplant & Donation Politics Source Type: blogs
Why Is the USA Only the 35th Healthiest Country in the World?
By ETIENNE DEFFARGES
According the 2019 Bloomberg Healthiest Country Index, the U.S. ranks 35th out of 169 countries. Even though we are the 11th wealthiest country in the world, we are behind pretty much all developed economies in terms of health. In the Americas, not just Canada (16th) but also Cuba (30th), Chile and Costa Rica (tied for 33rd) rank ahead of us in this Bloomberg study.
To answer this layered question, we need to look at the top ranked countries in the Bloomberg Index: From first to 12th, they are Spain; Italy; Iceland; Japan; Switzerland; Sweden; Australia; Singapore; Norway; Israel; Luxe...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 15, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Economics Health disparities Health Policy American healthcare Etienne Deffarges Mediterranean Diet Opioids world health Source Type: blogs
Financial Toxicity is Hurting my Cancer Patients
By LEILA ALI-AKBARIAN MD, MPH
As news of Tom Brokaw’s cancer diagnosis spreads, so does his revelation that his cancer treatments cost nearly $10,000 per day. In spite of this devastating diagnosis, Mr. Brokaw is not taking his financial privilege for granted. He is using his voice to bring attention to the millions of Americans who are unable to afford their cancer treatments.
My patient Phil is among them. At a recent appointment, Phil
mentioned that his wife has asked for divorce. When I inquired, he revealed a
situation so common in oncology, we have a name for it: Financial
Toxicity. This occurs wh...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 12, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Economics Finance Medical Practice Patients Cancer financial toxicity healthcare costs Leila Ali-Akbarian Oncology Source Type: blogs
7 Practical Tools for Picking Yourself up During Your Darkest Days
You're reading 7 Practical Tools for Picking Yourself up During Your Darkest Days, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
These days most people experience some feelings of depression, anxiety, grief or general lack of motivation. This is a normal part of life, however, if we don’t take productive action, these states can linger and interfere with our functioning at work and in relationships. Here are some simple yet highly effective tools that can help you out of a dark period and propel you back towards balan...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - April 5, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tabitha Bailey Tags: depression featured self improvement motivation passion pickthebrain Source Type: blogs
Podcast: From Homeless to Prisoner to Olympian
In his teens, Tony Hoffman was a BMX Amateur being featured on magazine covers. But soon after, he was a drug addict living in the streets and ultimately ending in prison. After his parole, a now clean Tony returned to the BMX world in a big way: by taking the silver medal in the 2016 Olympics. Since then, Tony has dedicated his life to helping others with addiction issues with his motivational speaking and special projects.
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After paroling prison on December 13, 2008, Tony Hoffman started living out his dream, with his addiction behind...
Source: World of Psychology - April 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Show Tags: General Recovery Sports The Psych Central Show Addiction BMX Gabe Howard Olympics prison Tony Hoffman Vincent M. Wales Source Type: blogs
