I have but a few minutes today to provide more info, compliments of Bob, who I mentioned yesterday…. Bob alerted us to this scenario: going in for a check up, he was asked to return the next day for a blood test. When he returned the next day, he was charged another co-pay (and of […]
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The sad news keeps coming today… As if in response to my post from earlier this week questioning whether we have the best healthcare in the world… Today’s article from MSNBC about an insured, good credit rating woman who has gone bankrupt because her insurance didn’t cover her costs of treatment for ovarian cancer. Such
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I’m not sure whether to stand up and applaud — or to begin worrying even more about patients who are hospitalized…. This report just in from Consumers Union, the not-for-profit organization that runs www.stophospitalinfections.org … here is their press release, too…. Beginning in October 2008, Medicare (CMS: Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services) will no
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This story from NPR caught my eye this morning. Even those who think I go a bit off the deep end when it comes to casting dispersions on insurance and other payor programs that should be paying for our healthcare and don’t… this will make you think twice. The story concerns American soldiers who have
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This story from NPR caught my eye this morning. Even those who think I go a bit off the deep end when it comes to casting dispersions on insurance and other payor programs that should be paying for our healthcare and don’t… this will make you think twice. The story concerns American soldiers who have
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The AP issued an article this week (picked up in many pubs, I’m sure — here’s a link) about injecting microchips into humans, in part to improve their healthcare. The idea is that there are a number of problems we human beings could solve if we just had a microchip implanted in our arms. For
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Yesterday brought two excellent and interesting conversations, both of which could directly affect your medical care. First, my news alerts sent me to the website of a family practice physician turned patient advocate, Dr. Delia Chiaramonte. I wonder if the people in Baltimore, MD realize what a gem they have to help them? Dr. Chiaramonte
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The Today Show this morning featured a vignette about what to do if you are denied a treatment or therapy by your health insurance company — the steps you can take to, perhaps, change their mind. Yeah, right. Like that might happen. The story featured a woman who is dying of a rare form of
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