Hazards of High Deductibles?

Byadmin August 3, 2012

See this nice article on high deductible health insurance, by a reporter I spoke to, if I remember correctly, while walking my dog in one of Chapel Hill’s nicest parks.

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Want to Reduce Opiate Overdoses? Legalize Medical Marijuana
Byadmin February 20, 2019

I have written about medical marijuana before, relaying research findings showing that the legalization of medical marijuana is associated with a reduction in use of pain medications. Here’s another piece of evidence leading to a similar conclusion, from a study by the research team of Bradford and Bradford out of the University of Georgia. (Athens,…

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Do Conservatives Like Excessive Medicare Spending?
Byadmin June 4, 2012

An April Wall Street Journal editorial lauded the U.S. health-care system for giving American patients “more value—better outcomes and longer lives” than European health-care systems.
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Malpractice Reform Could Benefit Patients More Than Doctors
Byadmin March 17, 2014

The U.S. medical malpractice system is broken. It frequently does not punish doctors who need punishing, while levying fines against doctors who did nothing wrong. And this dreadfully inaccurate system still manages to take almost five years, on average, to settle claims. Experts have been promoting a type of reform known as “safe harbor rules,”……

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Colon Cancer Plus American Health Insurance – A Fatal Combination
Byadmin2 November 12, 2021November 22, 2021

The US is rapidly becoming a high out-of-pocket healthcare system, often with disastrous results.

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Health Insurance Is About Financial Security Too
Byadmin April 6, 2015

People like me, trained to be physicians, have pushed hard to promote health insurance in the United States because we believe, with some evidence to back up our claims, that good health insurance promotes better health. When people don’t have insurance, they delay necessary medical care for too long, and their health suffers as a…

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How Generously Does Your State Reimburse for Medicaid?
Byadmin January 30, 2015

A while ago, I wrote a post on how hard it can be for Medicaid recipients to get medical appointments, because so many physicians limit the number of Medicaid patients they see. They limit the number because Medicaid reimbursement is often, well, crappy! Here is a picture from a recent NEJM piece showing just how…

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Hazards of High Deductibles?

Want to Reduce Opiate Overdoses? Legalize Medical Marijuana

Do Conservatives Like Excessive Medicare Spending?

Malpractice Reform Could Benefit Patients More Than Doctors

Colon Cancer Plus American Health Insurance – A Fatal Combination

Health Insurance Is About Financial Security Too

How Generously Does Your State Reimburse for Medicaid?

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