Topic: Public Health Policy

The State of Healthcare 2008

This is the first installment of the state of healthcare in the United States, which is a great time because with the primaries heating up, it's great to look at what our candidates are using as rhetoric for solving the health care ...READ»

Health Care Coverage Confusing

When things change in the health care system, people get royally confused. READ»

The Times They Are Changing for Health Insurance

While it is nice to know that there are likely changes in the wind for the health care system in the United States, it is disappointing to see that those changes may set the system back even more.READ»

Health Insurance Quotes Reform EasyToInsureME

The Senate began to slog its way through amendments (see below) last week in a process that promises to get harder, not easier.READ»

Transparent Health Care a Must

Transparent health care costs would ensure the current abuse of the system would decrease.READ»

The Health Care Industry Has a Big, Fat Carbon Footprint

The U.S health-care debate may be centered around money, but researchers at the University of Chicago recently published a research letter in the Journal of the American Medical Association looking at a different kind of cost: the ...READ»

Private Healthcare?

An article in the Sunday New York Times caught my eye. It talked about a possible government mandate to standardize computerized health records, if the industry doesn't come up with a set of technical standards on its own. The ...READ»

All Physicians Are Not Created Equal: How to Fix Medicine's Two-Party System

Imagine there is a committee of politicians made up of 24 republicans and 5 democrats. Their job is to decide a politician's salary--for democrats and republicans--and decisions are made by majority rule. Which party do you think ...READ»

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Health Insurance Quotes Reform EasyToInsureME

On November 21st Senate lawmakers voted along party lines to move ahead with a floor debate over Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's READ»

My Brush with Swine Flu--We Dodged It, But What About Next Time?

At the beginning of June, swine flu or H1N1 hit my daughters’ school in full force.  Thankfully, everyone survived the outbreak, but what about next time?  Experts predict that we haven’t seen the last of H1N1, or its more ...READ»

Age Related Health Care

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if a person is older, they would likely pay more for health insurance, as opposed to younger people.READ»

Harnessing the Net, One Phone at a Time.

Voxiva's Paul Meyer is using telephones to bring the power of the Internet to areas that can't afford computers.READ»

Health Insurance Prices Are Affected by Various Things

There are three things that affect the price of health insurance medical inflation, medical errors and the humans who use the system.READ»

President Obama Continues to Push for Electronic Medical Records

Since he was candidate Obama, the new President has been calling for a comprehensive electronic medical records system with the U.S. Health Care juggernaut.READ»

EmpowHer Launches Free Health Events for Women

There's a long story behind this launch post. I'm on the advisory board of EmpowHer.com, a women's health site founded by a friend of mine, Michelle Robson, who had an awful experience with the health care system and decided ...READ»

Health Care Needs to be About the Majority, NOT the Minority

While you might think that's an odd thought – that health care needs to be about the majority of the people and not about the minority of people – it's a well-known fact that roughly 20 percent of those in the health care system are responsible for at least 80 percent of the costs.READ»

Health Reform Weekly : EasyToInsureME : June 26 2009

The "bumps in the road" to health care reform were quite visible this past week.READ»

How to Make Your Company More Resilient

The lessons learned during Odwalla's 1996 E. coli crisis have guided the juice company to financial recovery and explosive growth.READ»

Did Merck Really Try to Deliberately Silence Critics?

Disturbing article on Total Health Breakthroughs about a deliberate campaign by Merck to intimidate, defund ,and otherwise make life miserable for doctors who dared to speak out about the nasty and sometimes-lethal side effects of ...READ»

One Man's Drive... One Company's Courage

Anglo American is by far the dominant company in a proud country that is being ravaged by AIDS. Dr. Brian Brink made it his business to transform Anglo's approach to saving lives in South Africa -- even if it meant incurring the wrath of a government that prefers to look the other way. Meet the determined face of corporate citizenship.READ»

Make a New Health Insurance Plan

The new administration may make some interesting changes in health care, but don't expect too much to be happening.READ»