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Where Private Physicians – Patients – Lab, X-ray, CT, MRI – Urgent Care – Consultants Are in a Level Horizontal Playing Field and not enmeshed in the Vertical Hospital/ Insurance/ AMA/ Government/ Bureaucratic Complex This Will Reduce Health Care Costs at Least in Half.
IN THIS SECTION WE FEATURE FREEDOM LOVING ENTERPRISES, AND ORGANIZATIONS FOR YOUR INTEREST AND SUPPORT IN OUR EFFORTS TO KEEP GOVERNMENTAL INTRUSIONS MINIMAL AND TO PREVENT OUR RETURN TO THE SOCIALISM OF EUROPE WE ESCAPED THREE CENTURIES AGO. The Heritage Foundation, Kay C. James, President. www.Heritage.org, 214 Massachusetts Ave, NE, DC 20002 Heritage is […]
Personal affordable major health insurance
With health insurance payments, whether Medicare or private, the listed costs are more likely than not grossly inflated. We have seen common ordinary medications like phenobarbital, aminophylline, Dilantin, and other necessary medications with posted costs of hundreds of dollars which is a hundredfold over previous charge. The reason given is that the pharmaceutical industry has […]
Medicare’s long-term financing challenges
Since 1965, Medicare has played a vital role in providing health care benefits to nearly all Americans age 65 and older. The program, however, faces long-term sustainability challenges. Medicare spending will increase dramatically over the next few decades as the Baby Boomer population ages into the program and health spending per beneficiary grows. At the […]
Italy’s death toll has risen to 26,384 ROME | Giada Zampano | 25.04.2020
Italy’s death toll has risen to 26,384, with 415 new fatalities over the past day, health authorities said. However, data indicated a flattening of the curve as infections fell for the sixth day in a row. According to the Italian Civil Protection Department, the tally of infections stands at 105,847. Meanwhile, recoveries spiked to 63,120 […]
Health Care and Social Security Costs are Unsustainable.
Health spending totaled $74.6 billion in 1970 or $355 per Beneficiary. By 2000, health expenditures had reached about $1.4 trillion or $4855 per Beneficiary. In 2017, the United States spent about $3.5 trillion, or $10,200 per person, 18 percent of GDP, on health expenditures. Of that $3.5 trillion, $1.5 trillion, is directly or indirectly financed […]
Characteristics and Outcomes of 21 Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19 in Washington State
Research Letter: March 19, 2020: One of the first Scientific Articles on COVID & ARDS Matt Arentz, MD1; Eric Yim, MD2; Lindy Klaff, MD2; et al Author Affiliations Article Information JAMA. Published online March 19, 2020. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.4326 The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the disease it causes, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), is an emerging health threat.1 Until February 2020, […]
Restoring Affordability by Moving from a Vertical to a Horizontal Industry: Where Private Physicians – Patients – Lab, X-ray, CT, MRI – Urgent Care – Consultants Are in a Level Horizontal Playing Field and not enmeshed in the Vertical Hospital/ Insurance/ AMA/ Government/ Bureaucratic Complex This Will Reduce Health Care Costs at Least in Half.
IN THIS SECTION WE FEATURE FREEDOM LOVING ENTERPRISES, AND ORGANIZATIONS FOR YOUR INTEREST AND SUPPORT IN OUR EFFORTS TO KEEP GOVERNMENTAL INTRUSIONS MINIMAL AND TO PREVENT OUR RETURN TO THE SOCIALISM OF EUROPE WE ESCAPED THREE CENTURIES AGO. The Heritage Foundation, Kay C. James, President. www.Heritage.org, 214 Massachusetts Ave, NE, DC 20002 Heritage is […]
In the October 2019 Quarterly Review
Featured Article: The Transformation of the American Hospital In the News: The U. S. District Court upheld racial discrimination at Harvard Government Healthcare: Single Payer is more Expensive than Private Care Lean HealthCare: Is Based on Deductibles and Co-Pays on Every Procedure Misdirection in Healthcare: How Free is Free Health Care? Innovations in Healthcare: Innovations […]
The technology of medicine has outrun its sociology
The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain, and to postpone death when it is meaningful to do so. Technology has to support these goals—if not, it may be even counterproductive. –-Joel J. Nobel I fear we are developing a group of competent technicians, treating disease, but not treating the whole […]
Eradicate Politicized Health Care
HealthPlanUSA.net http://www.healthplanusa.net/ HealthPlanUSA is the network concerned with bringing the best available ideas to a unified HealthPlan concept that will help resolve the health care problems in the United States. We think that Dr. Eakman’s goal in education should be our goal in medicine and health care: Eradicate Politicized Health Care by taking the federal […]