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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Insurance Woes
Byadmin June 18, 2014

A great cartoon from the Kaiser Health News website that pithily captures the “wonders” of the American health insurance system. (Click here to view comments)

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Lifesaving Lessons from the Makers of Sprite?
Byadmin November 30, 2012

It was the late 90s and HIV was spreading through South African teenagers like, well, like a sexually transmitted disease. Sleep with a South African at that time and you faced a one in six chance of having a close encounter with the virus. Frightening odds. But not frightening enough to curb teenage sexual activities….

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The Pill, the Pox and the Limits of Religious Freedom
Byadmin September 20, 2012

300 million dead worldwide from smallpox in the 20th century alone. No wonder the United States Public HealthService is run by a General—fighting infectious disease was a life or death battle back then, and countries that failed to mobilize against the enemy would leave millions dead on the battlefield. In Germany, as I discussed in a recent…

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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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One Price Does Not Fit All for Medical Fees
Byadmin February 4, 2013

In the New York Times on Friday, Roni Caryn Rabin writes a great article about the crazy price hikes that hospitals and medical clinics impose upon patients who come to them from “out of the network.” Examples include a more than $6,000 doctor visit, one for which Medicare would have paid less than $200. Examples…

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Medicare Versus Inflation: Who's Winning Now?
Byadmin May 9, 2013

There is one thing that politicians on both sides of the aisle agree upon: the biggest threat to the future fiscal solvency of the United States is Medicare, the program that pays medical expenses for elderly and disabled Americans. For many years now, the Medicare budget has been growing much faster than the economy as…

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Hazards of High Deductibles?

Insurance Woes

Lifesaving Lessons from the Makers of Sprite?

The Pill, the Pox and the Limits of Religious Freedom

Do Conservatives Like Excessive Medicare Spending?

One Price Does Not Fit All for Medical Fees

Medicare Versus Inflation: Who's Winning Now?

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