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If you care about health care, you care about September 23rd by Jamie C. Patient Expert

Posted Sun 22 Aug 2010 3:00pm September 23rd is a critical day for health care reform. This short video from Mary Pat Whaley gives you a 60 second run down off why you should care. Read on »

Reducing Health Care Costs While Taking Care of Your Health by outofpocket Patient Expert

Posted Mon 06 Apr 2009 11:15pm In this economic downturn, consumers are aggressively looking for ways to cut back on expenses – including health care expenses. Three and half million people have lost their jobs and their health insurance. People that have health insurance are paying more for premiums, co-pays and deductibles and employers are passing on more health care costs Read on »

How Health Insurance Inhibits Trade In Health Care -- Health Affairs by Dr. Aniruddha M. Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 18 Nov 2008 12:16am How Health Insurance Inhibits Trade In Health Care - Health Affairs: "How Health Insurance Inhibits Trade In Health Care Aaditya Mattoo and Randeep Rathindran A range of health care services are tradable, in that consumers can travel abroad for treatment. In this paper we first estimate the gains from trade. An international price comparison Read on »

Project Care: Health Care Case Studies, Multimedia and Projects for English Language Learners by Dr. Aniruddha M. Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 18 Nov 2008 12:14am Project Care: Health Care Case Studies, Multimedia and Projects for English Language Learners: "Project Care is a website for high-intermediate to advanced English language learners who want to learn about caring for others while improving their communication with medical personnel. The website provides audio and video for listening practice, vocabulary Read on »

Survey Indicates Nearly Half of All Women Fail to Seek Medical Care Due to Health Care Costs by Duane P. Patient Expert

Posted Thu 08 Jan 2009 3:01pm On December 2, 2008, HealthDay reported, "Women are cutting back on health care due to costs, according to a Harris Interactive poll released Tuesday by the National Women's Health Resource Center." The poll revealed that "almost half the women failed to seek medical care in the year before the survey," saying that they cut back on "doctor visits Read on »

E-care - Health care hits the Web by Dr. Aniruddha M. Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 18 Nov 2008 12:16am E-care - Health care hits the Web: "E-mails and phone calls paid at least in part by insurers are a fast-growing solution to a common ailment in health care... of HealthPartner's primary care division. He cited estimates that up to 40 percent of office visits are unnecessary. Clinics and their leaders said they have an additional incentive to use Read on »

WHY CARE ABOUT HEALTH CARE REFORM?? by bibmomma

People's HealthBlogger Awards 2009 - Best 100 Winner!

Posted Thu 17 Dec 2009 3:00am . Today I read a blog from a fellow PWP who cares not one whit if anyone else in America has ANY health care. He only cares for himself, that HIS insurance company is paying... that’s in the health care reform bill. But guess what? There are people out there now, mister, who have no drugs, no doctor, no insurance and no money. You don’t see them blogging and whining Read on »

The Antidote: Counterspin for Health Care and Health News: Interview #3: Shannon Brownlee by Dr. Aniruddha M. Medical Doctor

Posted Fri 16 Oct 2009 10:01pm The Antidote: Counterspin for Health Care and Health News: Interview #3: Shannon Brownlee: "What would you like to see health journalists covering more? Are there gaps... to the story than met the eye." Unfortunately, health reporting in India leaves a lot to be desired. This is especially true, now that the lines between advertising and editorial have Read on »

Where Is The Care in Health Care? Needed: The Art of Persuasion by Dr. Rick K. Naturopathic Doctor

Posted Wed 24 Sep 2008 11:52am How is it possible that the most obvious therapeutic modality, the human connection, accessed with the art of persuasion, has been replaced with such distance, calculation and regulation? It's the classic case of fear overwhelming reason. Medicine, particularly in hospitals and nursing homes, is a life-and-death business. It provokes fear at eve ... Read on »

Testing Pilots, Demonstrations, Models of Care in Health Care Reform: Say What About the Proposed Center for Medicare and Medica by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted Mon 08 Mar 2010 3:14pm The Disease Management Care Blog still believes the terms "Medicare" and "innovation" are oxymoronic, despite Rob Mechanic and Stuart Altman 's New England Journal of Medicine article on the potential for new era of enlightened government health care. In a well-written if rather fawning Perspective piece, they argue that an efficient, responsive Read on »