Health Insurance: An Individual Responsibility
Many have objected to this as a violation of personal choice and freedom. However, I would suggest that it is…
President to AMA: Health Reform . . . Sort Of
President Obama addressed the American Medical Association this past week. He laid out his vision for health reform. Many in…
Medicine's Most Expensive Technology: The Doctor's Pen
Questions related to expectations of patients of their physicians and hospitals and the health system as a whole. Questions about…
High Deductible Health Plans and HSA's Bad for Your Health? NOT
Articles recently published claim that high deductible health plans and HSA's are potentially bad for your health and that they…
Pre-Existing Conditions: End the Game, Health Coverage for All Now
First, the employee based system is outmoded and dates from a post-WWII reality that no longer exists. Persons change jobs…
Real Health Reform begins here !
Thanks Medscape for recognizing that Real Health Reform has a REAL solution (see article below by Nancy Terry) that can…
Anthem Blue Cross pays $1 million fine for dropping sick subscribers
No one should be denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions or dropped from coverage because the are ill and use…
Health Insurance Reform needed to achieve Real Health Reform
When one reads this report (as well as the reporting on it, see links below), one can only be saddened…
Is the Web our way out of medical data conundrum? Perhaps yes . . .
Well, we have argued that the web would in the end begin to be the real solution for the medical…
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Women pay more than men for identical individual insurance policies
Insurance rating is not a new concept. However, in the case of individual policies, health insurers have taken it to…