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Educating the General Public About Health Care: March 2013
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013. The ACA: More Expensive Than We Think. The Affordable Care Act has turned three and it’s been a rough three years. The law has plowed through a number of legal challenges (and more will come), survived numerous attempts of repeal, and continues to face a largely unsupportive public. Nobody said changing health care would be easy. It just seems it could have been accomplished in a different way. The Society of Actuaries released a study. The ACA has focused way too much on getti...
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Educating the General Public About Health Care: End of Life Care- A Consumer Issue We Need To Talk About
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Wednesday, September 17, 2014. End of Life Care- A Consumer Issue We Need To Talk About. Americans don’t like to talk about death. Here’s some facts to think about:. In 2011 we spent over $550 billion on Medicare. Of that amount, approximately 28% was spent during the last 6 months of life and 32% was spent during the last two years of life. A study of patient inpatient hospital costs during the last two years of life found huge variations in costs between hospitals. At Mayo Clinic the inpatient cost...
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Educating the General Public About Health Care: November 2013
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013. Reducing Provider Networks- Not All the Fault of Obamacare. Obamacare can (and should) be justifiably criticized for many deficiencies. However, we also need to keep in mind there are many other culprits that have put us in the position we’re in today. Obamacare is not the only cause. There is enough blame to go around for everyone. If you want proof). So, while United Healthcare is justified in creating a more cost-effective and efficient provider network they are not justifi...
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Educating the General Public About Health Care: September 2014
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Wednesday, September 17, 2014. End of Life Care- A Consumer Issue We Need To Talk About. Americans don’t like to talk about death. Here’s some facts to think about:. In 2011 we spent over $550 billion on Medicare. Of that amount, approximately 28% was spent during the last 6 months of life and 32% was spent during the last two years of life. A study of patient inpatient hospital costs during the last two years of life found huge variations in costs between hospitals. At Mayo Clinic the inpatient cost...
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Educating the General Public About Health Care: January 2014
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Thursday, January 9, 2014. Reforming Health Care is a Supply-Side Problem. Anyone who read the Affordable Care Act (ACA) when it was first enacted, has a basic understanding of how health care works, and comprehends the reality of the political world we live in isn’t surprised with how the implementation of the law has turned out so far. Unfortunately there aren’t many who possess all three traits. There are alternatives to the ACA being discussed. These ideas (the main ones being the Empowering Pati...
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Educating the General Public About Health Care: September 2013
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Monday, September 9, 2013. Unfortunately, Misinformation Rules. Let me say from the start (and most of you who have been following this blog already know) I’m not a big fan of the Affordable Care Act/Obamacare. It’s too big for what we need right now, too expensive for where we are, and doesn’t address many of the fundamental flaws we have with the health care system in this country. But, you should also know I am a huge fan of reforming the health care system - we all know it needs to. It is estimated t...
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Educating the General Public About Health Care: July 2013
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013. Nobody should be surprised that there are going to need to be changes to what was originally written. The original legislation was much too complex, confusing, (and costly? Considering where the country was. Positioned economically and politically. Unless the majority of Americans were on board, there is no way it was going to work. An opinion essay in the Wall Street Journal (Obamacare’s ‘Lair’ Subsidies; July 7, 2013) stated, “All of this fits with Obamaca...I don’t think i...
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Educating the General Public About Health Care: Reducing Provider Networks- Not All the Fault of Obamacare
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013. Reducing Provider Networks- Not All the Fault of Obamacare. Obamacare can (and should) be justifiably criticized for many deficiencies. However, we also need to keep in mind there are many other culprits that have put us in the position we’re in today. Obamacare is not the only cause. There is enough blame to go around for everyone. If you want proof). So, while United Healthcare is justified in creating a more cost-effective and efficient provider network they are not justifi...
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Educating the General Public About Health Care: The Mandate for Contraception- Going Too Far and It Must Be Fixed
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Tuesday, February 4, 2014. The Mandate for Contraception- Going Too Far and It Must Be Fixed. And, it also made sense to put a special emphasis on “women’s health” as women tend to suffer disproportionately from chronic disease and for certain conditions adding to the overall cost of health care for everyone. But there are limits as to how far the law should go. In 2011, the Institutes of Medicine provided recommendations to the Department of Health and Human. In most cases, the recommendations made sens...
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Educating the General Public About Health Care: April 2014
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014. Obamacare: Not the Time to Spike the Ball. First, was the announcement that over 7.5 million individuals used the different health insurance exchanges to purchase health insurance for themselves or their families. This number miraculously exceeded the moving. As an added benefit, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) updated their numbers. Posted by Collaboration Health Care. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). About Collaboration Health Care. Minnea...