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Planning the Patient-Centered Health Plan for America
Level B: Emergency Rooms, Urgent Care and Surgi-centers (Continued from April 2011 section 9) A graded co-payment for every level of service See April Issue for Level A—Hospitals Level B: Hospital Emergency Rooms, Urgent Care Centers, and Surgi-centers. The research from HPUSA has elucidated some important clinical statistics to control health care costs. This data […]
Understanding the present problem
The Major Current Problems in HealthCare The $3 trillion health care industry is the only major segment of the economy that is failing, and there is nothing the employer, insurance carrier or government can do about it. Health care is the only product or service (outside of public education) that has consistently grown worse over […]
Understanding the present problem
The Major Current Problems in HealthCare The clarion call in the healthcare debate is to repeal Obamacare – repeal and revise. When one looks at the investment of time, energy, and lawyering spent over several years on the current rendition, which has caused a marked increase in cost, anxiety in our patients, causing a loss […]
The HealthPlanUSA Solution
HPUSA is the only true Market-based Health Plan that uses the Internet and Digital Information Technology to bring the Insurance Carrier, Service Providers (Hospitals, Surgi-centers, Physicians, Pharmacies, Diagnostic and Treatment Centers), Patients and Credit Providers together at the same interface, allowing data, information and fund transfers to occur in real time. The patient takes an […]
How to become an Entrepreneur?
How to Get a Real Education – By SCOTT ADAMS –WSJ I understand why the top students in America study physics, chemistry, calculus and classic literature. The kids in this brainy group are the future professors, scientists, thinkers and engineers who will propel civilization forward. But why do we make B students sit through these […]
Telehealth
5 steps to consider for making the most of Telehealth Michelle McNickle | Web Content Producer | January 20, 2012 Telehealth services offer substantial opportunities for healthcare cost savings, as well as a proven effectiveness with improving patient care, particularly in rural areas. However, to get the most bang for the buck, there is still […]
Are Innovations in Healthcare coming to an end in America?
Europeans come here for front-line cancer therapy. Where will they go after ObamaCare? A Parable of Health-Care Rationing BY ANNE JOLIS, WSJ Europe Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium Imagine you’re a Belgian industrialist with an idea for a device that treats certain cancers. You’re convinced it would be a huge improvement over the existing standard. But it would […]
Medical Scribes
Are Medical Scribes an innovation that improves healthcare and the doctor/patient relationship? In the early 2,000s as we were being pushed to see more patients as health maintenance organizations (HMOs) were exerting their control of private practice in the United States, I began writing this Journal on a Quarterly basis. I utilized international conferences as […]
Making Health Insurance Portable
Special Publications | Health | by NCPA 1-30-06 One of the strange features of the U.S. health care system is that the health plan most of us have is not a plan that we chose; rather, it was selected by our employer. Even if we like our health plan, we could easily lose coverage because […]
Portability – Part II
Problem: Younger Spouses and Retirees on Medicare. The lack of individually owned, portable insurance is particularly burdensome for many women who are married to older men. When a husband retires and enrolls in Medicare, wives may be left without any coverage – and often at vulnerable times in their lives. At the same time, Medicare […]