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Promoting Population Health through Financial Stewardship

Byadmin April 18, 2012

“Promoting Population Health through Financial Stewardship” – The New England Journal of Medicine

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Republicans Hate Obamacare so Much, They Refuse to Benefit from It?
Byadmin December 16, 2015

Here is a chart from the Washington Post, showing the percent of people lacking health insurance over the last few years. For a long time now, a higher proportion of Democrats have been uninsured than Republicans, with low income and minority communities experiencing a disproportionately high uninsurance rate. But since Obamacare has come into effect,…

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Continued Decline in the Uninsured
Byadmin February 23, 2016

Thanks again to the Kaiser Family Foundation for keeping all of us informed about important healthcare statistics. Here’s a relatively recent snapshot of how the percent of Americans lacking health insurance has fluctuated since the 1970s. The effect of Obamacare on the statistic is undeniable:

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Experts Split On Whether Breast, Lung, And Prostate Cancer Screening Saves Lives
Byadmin2 November 11, 2024

Mammograms for breast cancer; the PSA blood test for prostate cancer; CT scans for lung cancer; and things like stool blood tests and colonoscopies for colon cancer. Each of these screening tests is designed to find cancers, or precancers, before they become symptomatic, the goal of early detection being to enable clinicians to eradicate growths…

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Single-Payer Health Care: Love It, Hate It, Love It, Hate It…
Byadmin June 29, 2016

One reason our healthcare system in the United States is so messed up is that so few Americans understand much about it. For that reason, their attitudes towards various healthcare reform proposals veer left and right depending on how they are asked for their opinions. Here’s great evidence of that phenomenon, as reported by the…

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Everyone Agrees Obamacare Prices Have Been Rising Rapidly (But Everyone Is Wrong)
Byadmin February 23, 2018

(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) It has been well publicized that premiums for Obamacare insurance plans have been rising at a disturbing rate. Local news is filled with reports of 21.5%, 36.3% and even higher price hikes. President Trump complained in February that Obamacare premiums “have increased by double and triple digits,” even remarking that premiums in Arizona “went up 116%…

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Physician (and Pharma, and Insurance Executive) Pay: Doing Too Well by Doing Good
Byadmin September 25, 2017

Shutterstock American physicians deserve to be paid well for their work. As a physician, myself, I know what it takes to become a doctor in the U.S. Four years of late nights in the college library in hopes of achieving a GPA commensurate with medical school admission; then four years of medical school, which makes…

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Promoting Population Health through Financial Stewardship

Republicans Hate Obamacare so Much, They Refuse to Benefit from It?

Continued Decline in the Uninsured

Experts Split On Whether Breast, Lung, And Prostate Cancer Screening Saves Lives

Single-Payer Health Care: Love It, Hate It, Love It, Hate It…

Everyone Agrees Obamacare Prices Have Been Rising Rapidly (But Everyone Is Wrong)

Physician (and Pharma, and Insurance Executive) Pay: Doing Too Well by Doing Good

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