In 2011, James Robinson of the University of California reviewedhospital prices charged to commercial insurers for six common procedures: angioplasty, pacemaker insertion, knee replacement, hip replacement, lumbar fusion, and cervical fusion. He found that, on average, procedures cost 44 percent …
Category: Medical Costs
Forum for Healthcare Freedom – Promoting Freedom in Healthcare Using the Power of Honest Pricing & Free-Markets
Forum for Healthcare Freedom The Sovereign Patient has a new name to better reflect its core mission and message. Introducing the Forum for Healthcare Freedom. Source: Forum for Healthcare Freedom – Promoting Freedom in Healthcare Using the Power of Honest …
Trump’s New Vision for Health Care
Hats off to John C. Goodman again! His work in leading the effort for market-based healthcare reform over the past 4 decades, and highlighting the government’s role in the dysfunctional mess we labor in, is second to none. This Forbes …
Deflate the Healthcare Bubble!
Deflate the Healthcare Bubble! I recently spoke to a colleague who needs a cystoscopy for stone retrieval and/or stent placement. Local hospital quote is $25,000 for just use of facility, not counting anesthesia & urologist’s fee; with estimated patient responsibility …
4 Questions for Politicians Claiming Single-Payer Will Lower Health Care Costs – Foundation for Economic Education
Jim Kelly Unfortunately, outrage buys fewer tongue depressors than one might hope. The top health insurers averaged 4.1 percent profit in 2017 (per Yahoo Finance). That’s taken on half (at most) of spending for-profit insurers handle. Eliminating those profits would …
DPC and Self-insured Employers: Lifestyle-friendly Care for the 21st Century
http://ushealthmedia.com/dpc-and-self-insured-employers-lifestyle-friendly-care-for-the-21st-century/ In a typical insurance-based practice, meaningful face-to-face time between doctor and patient is somewhere between 5-10 minutes. Interesting, but surprisingly, shorter visits tended to result in more prescriptions being written and less time trying to get to the root …
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The Pernicious Impact of Government Intervention in Healthcare, Captured in a Chart
Originally posted on International Liberty: America’s healthcare system is a mess, largely because government intervention (Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, and the tax code’s healthcare exclusion) have produced a system where consumers almost never directly pay for their medical services. This “third-party…
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Obamacare is now optional
“Wednesday’s rule reinstates and even expands the consumer protections Obama curtailed. It allows short-term plans to last 12 months, and allows insurers to offer them with renewal guarantees. You read that right. Democrats curtailed consumer protections; Republicans are expanding them. …
