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Ways to Save Money on Your Prescription Medications

Co-Founder and COO Robert Hendrick spent a few minutes with the local TV crew to share tips on how to save money on your prescriptions. Easy steps that can add up to huge savings. You’ll be surprised!
Thanks for all of the support, and for trusting us to help you make smarter healthcare decisions and save [...]

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If You Knew the Price…

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“If you knew what the price of items were at Wal-Mart before you went into the store to buy them, it would put Wal-Mart out of business.”
That has to be one of the single most insane statements ever written.Yet that’s exactly what many doctors and hospitals would have you believe [...]

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Changes in Healthcare Reform – Employers MUST Get Involved!

Senator Jim Cooper (D) of Tennessee has been one of the most prominent politicians traversing the country on the idea of healthcare reform. In his early presentations on the subject, the approach was a hard line push to get universal coverage (covering the uninsured) with NO FOCUS ON CUTTING wasted expense that could have paid [...]

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Legislating the U.S. into Consumer Directed Healthcare

Lots of interesting bits and pieces in the Presidential Speech last night. Lots of things people wanted to hear like no more pre-existing conditions and no getting dropped from insurance plans if you have a serious medical condition.
I LIKE these statements.
But what do they mean?
Follow the logic…
No more pre-existing conditions and no getting dropped = [...]

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How Consumerism Hurts Wellness and Disease Management

Consumerism in healthcare has been hailed by many including ourselves as one of the key components in solving the healthcare crisis in the U.S.
“…one of…”
Pushing cost to the patient is merely the first step. Without transparency, consumerism has the potentially devastating affects on the gains that wellness and disease management have begun to make.
Under Consumer [...]

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13 Million Uninsured 20-Somethings

Just saw the CNN report on 13 million uninsured 20-somethings in this country. New to the job force and turning down their health insurance.
What are they thinking?!?! Do they believe that they can just go out and buy what they need in terms of medical goods and services on the free market? Good grief! This [...]

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Healthcare consumerism… What is everyone talking about?

Consumerism, just like transparency, is a current industry buzz word.  It is thrown around like everyone knows exactly what “healthcare consumerism” means.  However, consumerism often refers to the “derogatory” idea of society being preoccupied with the acquisition of consumer goods. Since healthcare consumerism is intended to represent a more positive movement, I am going to [...]

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History Repeats Itself in Healthcare

Great article from a freelance writer in The Morning Call. Richard has some of the ledgers from NY and Pennsylvania banks the 1950s to 1960s showing how household expenses were distributed. Of particular note is that the family paid all of their medical bills in cash. When someone came down with a more serious illness, [...]

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Transparency, Accountability, and Competition… not necessarily in that order.

Once again I had the privilege this morning to hear Sen. Bill Frist speak, this time at a breakfast held at Lipscomb University.  Though last time the topic was highly focus, today the slate was clear and anything to do with health care was on the table.  Although our time was limited, Frist managed to [...]

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