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Robots Taking Over the Surgical World?

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In a recent Atlantic post, James Hamblin reports on the increasing frequency with which surgeons perform hysterectomies with the assistance of robots.  Here is a picture from that post: To be clear: robotic surgery doesn’t mean a robot performs the operation.  Instead, the surgeon uses a laparoscope, usually, and the surgeon controls the tools at…

Angered By High Health Care Spending? Here’s What Maryland Is Doing
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Angered By High Health Care Spending? Here’s What Maryland Is Doing

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US healthcare spending is maddeningly high. As in: fifty percent higher than what other wealthy countries spend, with no evidence we’re getting any bang for all those additional healthcare bucks. In 2014, the state of Maryland took direct aim at this profitless profligacy, enacting a bold (dare I say European?) approach : it gave hospitals fixed…

How Much Are You Spending on Healthcare, and How Much Is Your Insurer?

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I have been writing a lot lately about out-of-pocket costs for health care in United States. In my research on this topic, I came across the following picture, which shows how much insurers are spending on healthcare, among people in the United States receiving insurance through their employers, and also how much those employees are spending…

Higher Health Insurance Deductibles, Smaller Wallets

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With health care costs rising, employers (and insurance companies) are increasingly asking consumers (aka “patients”) to have more “skin in the game”—to pay more out of pocket for their medical care.  The Kaiser Family Foundation has a nice report on trends in health insurance deductibles.  This picture shows the rise in these deductibles.  That means:…

Uncovered: In America, Insurance Doesn’t Guarantee Access and Coverage Doesn’t Mean You’re Covered
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Uncovered: In America, Insurance Doesn’t Guarantee Access and Coverage Doesn’t Mean You’re Covered

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Something like one in seven people living in the US have no healthcare insurance. In fact, the number of uninsured people has grown by 7 million since Trump has become president. (Make America Uninsured Again?) These numbers are atrocious. Embarrassing. Shameful, actually, in a country as wealthy as ours. We need to recommit ourselves to guaranteeing people access…