Archives By Author: delmeyer
Gene Research Reversed Congenital Blindness Genomic Science Kept My Boys from Going Blind
A rare disease almost took their eyesight, but before their world went dark, a medical miracle happened. By Kristin Papiro | WSJ | Nov. 29, 2019 Nine years ago, my family attended a medical conference in Philadelphia for the genetically unblessed. My husband, Eddie, and I found kinship with the other parents there, born of shared […]
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Government’s End: Why Washington Stopped Working By Jonathan Raugh https://fee.org/articles/book-review-governments-end-why-washington-stopped-working-by-jonathan-rauch/ It is April 10, 1992. Four U. S. senators, two Democrats and two Republicans, have marched to the Senate floor with a brave and foolhardy proposal. They are going to take a stab at curtailing federal entitlement spending. Entitlements are the huge check-writing programs whose […]
Molding it to a current, future, or past government program. Frequently making the government program even more expensive.
Almost all of the reform in healthcare is government based. It is proposed in conjunction with Medicare, Medicaid, Veteran’s care, or other members of the alphabet soup. To save and privatize American Medical Care, we have to think and promote private Medical Care which is totally separate from government control. Healthcare is frequently painted with […]
Simplify your life in 2020 It’s a new decade. Time to get these privacy-invasive, depression-causing, money-sucking apps off your phone for good.
27+ smartphone apps you should delete before 2020 https://www.fastcompany.com/90435619/27-apps-to-delete-in-2020?utm_source=pocket-newtab [Source illustration: Jane_Kelly/iStock; Pavlo Stavnichuk/iStock] By Michael Grothaus The modern smartphone app has existed for almost a dozen years now—ever since Apple launched the App Store back in 2008. In that time, apps have become a part of our daily lives, and some of them have […]
The Report of the American Academy of Actuaries Academy Publishes 2020 Election Issues Guide
The American Academy of Actuaries has prepared a series of guides focusing on several major issues to help voters become better informed leading up to the 2020 elections. These issue-focused guides offer information on select campaign topics on which actuaries have expertise. The Academy hopes candidates for higher office will provide details on their proposals to […]
America is looking disturbingly like Europe For health policy that works, look at the evidence By Linda Gorman, opinion contributor
When a policy generating a lot of fame and fortune starts to go wrong, the temptation to ignore new data can be irresistible. For over 50 years, mainstream U.S. health policy makers have promoted research supporting Kenneth Arrow’s 1963 assertion that “it is the general social consensus, clearly, that the laissez-faire solution for medicine is […]
Employer based health insurance. American Academy of Actuaries
An address by George Ross Fisher, MD, to the Actuarial Society of New York, was featured in one of our annual medical conferences. His opening statement was that employers should move out of the health insurance business completely, as gracefully and as quickly as they can. His reasoning was medical, or at least based on […]
Basic Ambulatory Medical Care is Not Insurable.
We have become so accustomed to having all of medical care covered by insurance. The evidence indicates that if we paid for our basic ambulatory care personally, instead of paying through our health insurance program, we would save 47 percent of our costs. That’s a huge savings. However, we seldom hear of this side of […]
HEALTHPLANUSA.NET QUARTERLY REVIEW
Restoring Affordable Health Plans Vol XIX, No 1, Jan, 2020 Reverting from a Vertical to a Horizontal Industry Insuring every American by Eliminating $Trillions wasted by Bureaucracy Hello: Just a reminder that you are receiving this email because either a) you have enrolled, b) have been referred, or c) expressed an interest in HealthPlanUSA. Don’t […]