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Health Care Costs

Do You Have the Right to Choose Your Health Care?

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 02.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Integrative Medicine, Health Insurance, Health Freedom, Health Care, Healthcare, Health, Money, Health Care Costs, Out-of-Pocket Health Care Expenses, Healthcare Costs, Living News
Alison Rose Levy

When we talk about prevention, don't forget that many factors impact health -- and we can't address them all one-by-one as individuals. We need collective action on public policy.

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On Healthcare Reform Stimulating the Economy: The Massachusetts Example

Maggie Mahar | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nurses, Health Care Costs, Jonathan Gruber, Drugs, Medical Errors, Health Insurance, Unncessary, Legislation, SCHIP Program, Primary Care, Health, Structural Reform, Over-Priced, Devices, Universal Health Care, Health Reform, Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News
Maggie Mahar

Too many proposals for healthcare reform focus solely on universal access and run the risk of sending good money after bad. The question we need to ask is: "Access to what"?

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Accept No Substitutes (Part 3 of 3)

Deane Waldman | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Healthcare System, Healthcare Crisis, Healthcare Reform, Health Care Costs, Systems Thinking, Healthcare, Politics News
Deane Waldman

If the government Plan for Healthcare describes only the effects in healthcare and fails to consider other, outside consequences, reject it. Accept no substitutes.

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Momonomics 103: The Price Tag of Health Care

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 12.22.2008 | Living

Read More: Epa, Politics, Fda, Health Care Costs, Economy, Health, Asthma, Adhd, Food, Diabetes, Health Care, Allergies, Living News
Robyn O'Brien

Today it is estimated that 50 per cent of Hispanic and African-American children will develop diabetes, that 1 in 90 boys has autism, and that 1 in 4 children has asthma.

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Accept No Substitutes (Part 1 of 3)

Deane Waldman | Posted 12.01.2008 | Living

Read More: Healthcare System, Health Care Costs, Government Regulations, Living News
Deane Waldman

I constantly write: YOU DECIDE. Do not put your trust in Washington; in those seeking your vote (who will say or promise anything); in self-styled ex...

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What is a Long Healthy Life Worth to You?

Deane Waldman | Posted 10.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Personal Responsibility, Plebiscite, Change, Healthcare, Health Care Costs, Living News
Deane Waldman

Please answer the title question for YOU, not as an academic, theoretical discussion or a test in school. What would you personally give, pay, or do ...

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Choice In Private Health Plans: Is It Real?

John Geyman | Posted 07.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Health, Decrease in Insurance Payouts, Medical Insurance Fraud, Out-of-Pocket Costs, Insurance Costs, Medical-Loss Ratios, Affordable Health Choice Plan, Ahip, Boston-Based Access Project, Cherry Picking, Health Care Costs, Living News
John Geyman

We are told regularly by advocates of the free market that more choice, as granted by the unfettered private marketplace, is the key to greater efficiency and value for consumers. So what does this look like?

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Exploiting the Market Under the Guise of Innovation

John Geyman | Posted 07.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Medical Insurance Fraud, Out-of-Pocket Costs, Health, Insurance Costs, Medical-Loss Ratios, Affordable Health Choice Plan, Health Care Costs, Cherry Picking Enrollees, Living News
John Geyman

As the market for employer-sponsored health insurance continues to shrink, insurers are now targeting healthier people in the individual market, especially in the 20 to 30s and 50 to 64 age groups.

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10 Ways To Save Thousands On Your Health Care

abcnews.com | Julian Kesner | Posted 06.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Health Care, How to Save Money, How to Save on Health Care, Medical Insurance, Health Care Costs, Insurance, Living News

After a car accident left Michelle Katz, a Washington, D.C., nursing student, with persistent back pain and numbness in 1998, she consulted a neurosur...

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Morphine for Your Headache?

Deane Waldman | Posted 06.26.2008 | Home

Read More: Health Care Costs, Health Care System, Home News
Deane Waldman

You go to a doctor complaining of headaches. She gives you morphine and sends you home pain-free (and high). Is she practicing good medicine? Ridicul...

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Neediest Hit Hardest By State Budget Cuts

Washington Post | Keith B. Richburg, Ashley Surdin | Posted 04.08.2008 | Business

Read More: State Budgets, Real Estate Transfer Taxes, Health Care Costs, Weak Economy, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Recession, Property Taxes, Budget Cuts, Energy Bills, Tax Revenue, Business News

In California's San Fernando Valley, Everardo Orozco, 53, who has AIDS, exhausted his medical benefits and can no longer afford the drugs that are kee...

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