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Healthcare

Can I get a discount on babies if I have a heart-attack, please.

This just in (errr… for the government, “just in” means insight into data ending 2 years ago) via Theo Francis of the WSJ.com blog: Hospital charges are up 89% since 1997. Yawn.
Oh, wait-a-minute?! You mean the price that the working uninsured and (to some discounted degree) people paying for care out-of-pocket [...]

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Silicon Nashville and Twitter

 
I’m just getting caught up on emails and i came across the following article that made me ponder the latest health+web efforts here in Nashville. Considering that the majority of for-profit healthcare companies (sans Tenet) are headquartered here in Nashville — is the Country Music City becoming the Silicon Valley of Health2.0 [e.g. Peerclip, connectivhealth, and [...]

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When it comes to healthcare reform… talk is cheap!

Per Christopher’s request, I began looking into Facebook groups that would possibly be interested in taking a look at our new change:healthcare site debuting sometime in late February. He and I figured that some young active minds, looking to support “Universal Healthcare” or at the very least change in the system, could have the [...]

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Tearing Down Healthcare. Maybe That’s What They Should Do

Got a chance this week to spend some time with a wonderful person, Susan Wentz, MD MS, at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She’s a very insightful person when it comes to many things, especially healthcare. I mention her because she gets credit for this initial analogy. I just took it a bit [...]

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“Looking Out for Number One”

A quick Monday morning nod to the wisdom of Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Having applied the wisdom of these lyrics for many years they once again proved their relevance as I read the article from Friday’s Minneapolis – St. Paul Star Tribune. The article is titled UnitedHealth billing flaws persist as company grew by David [...]

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Why should we change health care?

In going through my multiplying number of unread feeds I ran across an interesting piece from last week (sorry to those of you who have already done your reading). Politico published Young and Uninsured Turn to Facebook highlighting the large number of young adults interested in health care reform policies of the “08 election.
I [...]

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NEJM begins to validate change:healthcare direction

I rest my FREAK’N case! Well, actually, i’m not that smart and certainly this is a loose stretch to use the term “validate” but it is nice to have the New England Journal of Medicine validate my notion of social influence as noted below in today’s post:
An interesting and somewhat shocking study published in [...]

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Dr. Frist Adam Bosworth and me all at an airport

Just noticed that Adam Bosworth posted a nice summary of the Aspen Institute conference — which had a multitude of intriguing panel summaries such as:
“Cracking the Code: Life and Wellness in the Genomic Age,” “The Emerging Science of Mood,” and “The Hospital of the Future.” Other sessions will explore health reform and the presidential campaigns, [...]

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I would suggest you bring at least fifty bucks

I wasn’t able to get out go shopping on Black Friday so I thought I would do some catching up today. Since we are now in the season when “it” is going around, I thought I would be a good healthcare consumer and get some prices for a strep test for when I might [...]

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The Myth of the $4 Prescription and a Bit of Shakespeare

By way of explanation, the $4 prescription is a misnomer. Some are $4. But for the most part, what the pharmacy is doing is simply reducing your co-pay to $4. They still charge your insurance for the part above your co-pay, be it Medicare, Medicaid, or private insurance. You’re still paying for the balance of the [...]

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