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ByadminUnder the Affordable Care Act, the percent of Americans who lack any health insurance has declined significantly. Put another way – more Americans have health insurance than ever. But having insurance coverage is different than being well covered by insurance. Sometimes a person can enroll in a health insurance plan, and still face the kind of out-of-pocket…
Experts Split On Whether Breast, Lung, And Prostate Cancer Screening Saves Lives
Byadmin2Mammograms 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…
Colon Cancer Plus American Health Insurance – A Fatal Combination
Byadmin2The US is rapidly becoming a high out-of-pocket healthcare system, often with disastrous results.
Podcast on the Challenge of De-adoption
ByadminHere is a podcast I participated in, put out by folks at GWU. A quickish interview on the challenge of getting doctors to stop doing things they ought to stop doing. You can also listen to it on iTunes, or on Stitcher.
The Good and, Too Often, the Bad of Primary Care in the U.S.
ByadminShutterstock Death by a thousand bureaucratic demands. That’s how many American physicians currently describe their jobs, with work days that often don’t end until long after their kids go to sleep, when they finally finish documenting their clinical interactions. You see, government regulators and insurance company bureaucrats have been imposing a growing number of quality measurements on…
The Critical Side Effect Doctors Aren't Discussing: Out-of-Pocket Costs
ByadminIn this video, I talk about why doctors should talk to patients about out-of-pocket costs when evaluating treatment options.
