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How to save $550 billion in healthcare costs

Posted on May 8, 2012 | 1 Comment

It is projected that 42% of Americans are going to be obese by the year 2030.  However if we just hold our waste lines where they are at now we, as a nation, could dave $550 billion in healthcare costs.   What we need is the same approach that cut smoking to cut obesity.  It’s time to take off the gloves. Continue reading →

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Healthcare costs in the US are the highest in the world

Posted on May 3, 2012 | 2 Comments

Health care in America costs more than in other industrialized nation and we aren’t even getting the world’s best care for our dollars, according to a new study. The United States spent $7,960 per capita on health care in 2009, the most of 13 industrialized nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Continue reading →

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The costs of obesity cost us all

Posted on April 30, 2012 | 1 Comment

The U.S. health care reform law of 2010 allows employers to charge obese workers 30 percent to 50 percent more for health insurance if they decline to participate in a qualified wellness program.  Such measures do not sit well with all obese Americans. Advocacy groups formed to “end size discrimination” argue that it is possible to be healthy “at every size,” taking issue with the findings that obesity necessarily comes with added medical costs. Continue reading →

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High Cost of Medical Care Destroying the Health of Americans

Posted on April 24, 2012 | 2 Comments

Guest post by Sara Mackey. Depending on the side of the debate currently in the spotlight, Americans will either have access to cheap medical insurance because health care reform will move forward or because it will be dismantled. In the meantime, in a nation where a family of four pays almost $20,000 a year for normal medical expenses, Americans are sicker, and have a shorter life expectancy than their counterparts in nations with more affordable medical services. Continue reading →

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If you’re going to give away free drugs than make it easy for seniors

Posted on April 19, 2012 | 1 Comment

When Medicare stops paying for seniors’ medications after they enter the Part D “donut hole,” the seniors often go without the drugs, even if the medications are essential for heart health, new research shows. Continue reading →

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Hospitals don’t need to market themselves, just focus on people first

Posted on April 12, 2012 | Leave a comment

Over the past couple of weeks I have been reading about how some hospitals are feeling the budget crunches as our healthcare system continues to change and evolve.  One of the first budgets to get cut is the marketing budget and although I am in marketing I could not agree more that this budget is unnecessary. Continue reading →

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Is the high cost of healthcare spending in the US worth it ?

Posted on April 10, 2012 | 1 Comment

With the United States spending more on healthcare than any other country — $2.5 trillion, or just over $8,000 per capita, in 2009 — the question has long been, is it worth it? At least for spending on cancer, a controversial new study answers with an emphatic “yes.” Continue reading →

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The coming crisis in home health care

Posted on April 9, 2012 | Leave a comment

They come from the islands mostly.  They have some training and wear uniforms but  they do a lot of things around the house from laundry to making breakfast and lunch.  For a lot of families they are indispensable to take care of aging parents but a lot of them also pay a huge part of their fees to the agencies that sent them over.  They don’t get reimbursed for going to the grocery store and they often go out of their way to do make sure our elders are taken care of.  If agencies continue to treat them this way there’s going to be a shortage of home healthcare workers. Continue reading →

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Are patients being left behind in new guidelines ?

Posted on April 5, 2012 | 1 Comment

While the medical establishment called for the elimination of some medical tests one has to wonder about the needs of the few who could benefit from these tests versus the needs of the many.  Surely there are a lot better ways to reduce costs from our medical system than recommending the elimination of some tests which should be done at the physicians discretion not because of guidelines. Continue reading →

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Is it time for a radical new approach to patient healthcare ?

Posted on April 4, 2012 | 2 Comments

Forget what’s happening in the Supreme Court around healthcare for a moment and look at the complicated world of healthcare from a patients perspective.  With less people going to the doctor and more conflicting health information everyday (the lastest a call to eliminate some cancer tests) patients are getting lost in the maze of better healthcare.  It’s time for a change that will benefit patients. Continue reading →

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The responsibility shifts more to patients to prevent serious health problems

Posted on March 29, 2012 | Leave a comment

Half of all cancers could be prevented if people just adopted healthier behaviors, US scientists argued on Wednesday. Smoking is blamed for a third of all US cancer cases and being overweight leads to another 20 percent of the deadly burden that costs the United States some $226 billion per year in health care expenses and lost productivity. Continue reading →

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