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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If You Don’t Have Employer Insurance, You Probably Have a High Deductible
Byadmin August 15, 2016

Most people in the United States get health insurance either through their employer or through government programs like Medicare and Medicaid. But some people have to find other ways to get healthcare insurance, with an increasing number of people doing so through the Obamacare exchanges, or “marketplaces.” In fact, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation…

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What Does Health Insurance Procrastination Have to do With Bruce Springsteen?
Byadmin January 2, 2014

In this Marketplace report, Dan Gorenstein explores the role procrastination played in all the last minute efforts to sign up for health insurance through Obamacare this year. Read on to see how I managed to work “the Boss” into the story. Updated Monday, Dec. 23: The Obama administration announced on Monday it was giving a one-day…

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Obamacare and Donut Holes
Byadmin June 27, 2012

If you thought donuts were bad for your health, consider donut holes. Specifically, the donut hole sitting smack in the middle of Medicare Part D, the program helping senior citizens pay for their medications. The donut hole is a gap in coverage causing people, once they’ve received a certain level of financial support for their prescriptions, to have to go it alone for a while, bea
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Death Panels and Out-of-Pocket Health Care Costs
Byadmin December 18, 2013

Recently, I wrote an Op-Ed in the New York Timescalling upon physicians to discuss out-of-pocket costs with their patients before making medical decisions, and urging patients to take matters into their own hands if their physicians fail to initiate such conversations. This Op-Ed closely mirrored an argument I made in the New England Journal of Medicine with my colleagues Yousuf Zafar and Amy…

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Old Practices Die Hard
Byadmin June 3, 2015

Below is a recent article in U.S. News and World Report, written by Niam Yaraghi of the Brookings Institution, on why doctors continue to perform expensive and unnecessary tests like prostate cancer screening. Unnecessary and harmful medical procures are a major source of waste in the U.S. health care system. Prostate-specific antigen-based screening (or PSA-based…

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Insurers Are Not Paying Enough For HPV Vaccines – And Our Kids Are Paying The Price
Byadmin February 19, 2019

The HPV vaccine saves lives. It does so by reducing a person’s chance of being infected by the human papilloma virus, a virus that causes a whole range of cancers including, most importantly, cervical cancer. Vaccinate your teenage daughter against HPV, and you will increase the chance she will live to old age. Simple as…

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Hazards of High Deductibles?

If You Don’t Have Employer Insurance, You Probably Have a High Deductible

What Does Health Insurance Procrastination Have to do With Bruce Springsteen?

Obamacare and Donut Holes

Death Panels and Out-of-Pocket Health Care Costs

Old Practices Die Hard

Insurers Are Not Paying Enough For HPV Vaccines – And Our Kids Are Paying The Price

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