https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/04/09/598794123/bill-of-the-month-a-tale-of-2-ct-scanners-one-richer-one-poorer “Hynden was shocked when he got the second CT scan in January, and the listed price was $8,897 — 33 times what he paid for the first test. Gulf Coast Medical Center is part of his Cigna insurance plan’s …
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Surprise Medical Bills: We Know the Cure…Few Are Using it
This whole issue of “surprise bills” is a symptom of a more pernicious economic disease which has been driving prices in healthcare for decades; that being, a lack on discoverable, actionable meaningful prices for bundled medical services. Moreover, the lack …
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Dietary carbohydrate restriction as the first approach in diabetes management: Critical review and evidence base – ScienceDirect
“The benefits of carbohydrate restriction in diabetes are immediate and well documented. Concerns about the efficacy and safety are long term and conjectural rather than data driven. Dietary carbohydrate restriction reliably reduces high blood glucose, does not require weight loss …
Propaganda, Pandering, and Politics – AAPS | Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
“It sounds so virtuous to insist that “healthcare is a right.” Thus, if you do not believe medical care should be free, you are not a moral person. This technique echoes Aldous Huxley’s view that “the propagandist’s purpose is to …
FORBES | Employers Could Slash Their Health Costs Overnight. So, Why Don’t They?
“I am often asked if the free market can work in health care. My quick reply is: That is the only thing that works. At least, it is the only thing that works well. Show me a health care market …
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What You Need To Know About Medicare For All, Part I
A study by Charles Blahousat the Mercatus Center estimates that Medicare for all would cost $32.6 trillion over the next ten years. Other studies have been in the same ballpark and they imply that we would need a 25% payroll …
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Free Market Friday: Transparency the key to reducing health care costs – The Journal Record
“One can spend hours on the phone tracking down the billing department only to hear from a lamenting administrator that they can’t share the negotiated price until after the procedure is performed. Then, weeks after the episode of care is …
Donald Trump Takes A Big Step Toward Personal And Portable Health Insurance
READ THIS ARTICLE below if you want to understand the degree to which this ruling is an important step for healthcare reform. But as John C. Goodman points out, administrative ruling can only go so far without being codified by …
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