Monday Morning Update 5/4/09
From Deborah Kohn: “Re: Kaiser’s PDF formatted PHR. PDF Healthcare is a Best Practices Guide (BPG) and Implementation Guide (IG), published in 2008 by two standards development organizations (ASTM and AIIM). PDF Healthcare is not a vendor, product, or service, nor is it another standard. PDF Healthcare describes little known attributes of the Portable [...]
Medical Insurance
Future is unpredictable and this leads us to many dangers and complications in terms of health. Nobody knows what will happen with them during the course of life. Accidents and medical problems never has the nature to not to create problems. If it is not considered as a normal matter of life it can never [...]
Very, very cold comfort
George Will offers cold comfort at the end of his piece assessing the election in historical context.
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Although John McCain’s loss was not as numerically stunning as the 1964 defeat of Barry Goldwater, who won 16 fewer states and 122 fewer electoral votes than McCain seems to have won as of this writing, Tuesday’s trouncing was [...]
Touching My Heart
I recently discovered a very interesting video archive on C-SPAN that was both moving and funny. It was a Roast of Representative Rahm Emanuel (now to be President Obama’s Chief-of-Staff). The Roast was held on September 20, 2005 in Washington, D.C.
The purpose of the Roast ( besides making fun of Rahm Emanuel ) was to [...]
Obama’s Health Care Agenda–A Quick Reference
Obama’s Health Care Agenda — A Quick Reference
November 07, 2008
by Lynn Shapiro, Writer
The campaign has ended and now the work of governance begins for President-elect Obama.
Near the top of the next president’s policy priorities is addressing healthcare reform, particularly to address the nation’s 47 million uninsured. During the presidential campaign Barack Obama spoke boldly about [...]
Department of Insurance gives tips for open enrollment
Department of Insurance gives tips for open enrollment
It’s the time of year when many employers across the country hold open enrollment periods for their employees to select health insurance coverage. The Ohio Department of Insurance provides these tips to help employees make the best choice of the options available for them and their family.
What is [...]
Health Care Seen As Opportunity to ‘Undermine Conservative Worldview’
Health Care Seen As Opportunity to ‘Undermine Conservative Worldview’
November 7, 2008
by Amy Menefee
A group of people interested in advancing a liberal agenda was recently asked to “name the single most important policy step progressives could take to solidify a long-term grip on the government — the kind of extended run we had from 1932 through [...]
Health Care And Insurance Reform Be First On Obama’s Agenda
I read with some interest this piece by Jeff Sachs in Slate, “What Obama Needs To Do.” I think there will be a lot of columns like this, so let me add to their number. The thrust of Sachs’ advice is this:
“In sum, the recipes since 1981 of small government and small-bore solutions are passé [...]
Medical Insurance Overseas
From my own experience, especially when taking an overseas adventurous vacation, I would make sure to have medical evacuation insurance (and check with your health insurance company to find out what is an is not covered). My husband was involved in a terrible ski accident and because we weren’t covered for medical evacuation, we had [...]
Health proposal for Budget 2009
Frank Portelli
Once again I raise my head above the parapet, at the risk of attracting the usual snipers who are always ready to shoot new ideas down.
It was heartening to hear the Prime Minister Dr Lawrence Gonzi state that the NHS will start providing the much-needed drug Herceptin (Trastuzumab) for breast cancer patients.
A step in [...]
Doom, gloom, but hey — Obama’s kicking ass
Bob Herbert fills in some of the details the econo-wonks rarely manage to get around to:
[I]f we are indeed caught up in the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression, the ones who will fare the worst are those who already are poor or near-poor. There are millions of them, and yet they remain [...]
Ask Jesse the Artist
Instead of focusing on Joe the Plumber and his tax phobia’s, perhaps the presidential candidates should talk to Jesse the Artist and ask him or her about health insurance. On Sunday, October 19th, I visited the Bethesda Row Arts Festival in Bethesda, Maryland. I did just that. In a very unscientific survey, I talked to [...]
Bilingual Health Fair Serves Greenville Community
Dr. Patrick answers questions at the Red Cross Health Fair.
The third annual health fair, sponsored by the Upstate South Carolina Chapter (Greenville) was very successful. Titled Hope of Life, the fair was held on a Saturday at the John Calvin Presbyterian Church. Over 350 people attended the fair, which was a great opportunity for [...]
Tips for Choosing Dental and Vision Coverage
Dental and vision coverage seem to take the back seat for many
people who can already barely afford medical insurance. They just
skip those visits all together until a really awful problem arises.
It is then that they realize it is going to cost a slight fortune
to fix. What many people don’t know is that many plans you [...]
Many Kids Lack Insurance, Despite Having Insured Parents
Many Kids Lack Insurance, Despite Having Insured Parents
More than 3 million children fall into this category, study suggests
Posted October 21, 2008
By Amanda Gardner
HealthDay Reporter
TUESDAY, Oct. 21 (HealthDay News) — Insured parents don’t necessarily mean insured kids.
So say researchers who found that more than 3 percent of U.S. children and adolescents are uninsured or underinsured at [...]
Another PARTIAL Story On Health Insurance Coverage
Study: More Than 2 Million Uninsured Children Have Parents Who Are Insured
foxnews.com
There are more than 2 million American children who don’t have health insurance, yet at least one of their parents is covered by employer-provided insurance, Reuters reported.
This is because their parents cannot afford the extra thousands of dollars it costs to insure the child, [...]
Freedom to change health insurance providers soon
The General Insurance Council, is actively pursuing a process of developing a health insurance policy, which will be a standard product available across all insuring companies and hence will be portable. It means that insured persons will be able to change insurance providers at the time of policy renewal while retaining bonuses and other benefits.
“It [...]
Medical Insurance and Medical Bankruptcy
An old report highlighted recently in the British Journal of Healthcare Management in a review of the National Institute for Health (NICE) “Denial of life-saving drugs is not NICE” subscription required for this pdf covered the issue of those wanting to spend their own resources on their medical care. I talked about this issue [...]
NOT ONLY OLNEY BUT MUCH MORE…
It is the day after I got home from my little all-American roadtrip and the day before I set off on my quickie Euro-tour to London, England and Barcelona, Spain. How lucky am I? When I read my own words, I get a chill, a good one, down my spine. I have never been “across the [...]
To Work or Not to Work,from Home
Imagine this; you roll out of bed around 9am, grab a shower, some breakfast, and head off to work… in your living room. Sounds like a dream come true, right? For any people it is. Working from home allows you to set your own hours, work at your own pace, and saves [...]
Midday (Fall Break)
Yes, I am on campus as it is a parents visit day and I volunteered.
Hence I feel no guilt about blogging a bit:
A “Win Win Situation” Liberals love “win-win” situations where both camps are happy. Well, McCain says he has us right where he wants us. Cool! We’re pretty happy with [...]
Candidates’ Health Plans: Healthy Impact?
Commonwealth Fund Says Obama’s Plan Insures More People Than McCain’s; Critic Challenges Group’s Projections
By Salynn Boyles
WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
Oct. 2, 2008 — Twice as many uninsured people in the U.S. will have health insurance in 10 years under Sen. Barack Obama’s health care plan than under Sen. John [...]
Literary Corner – Recent Scholarly Works in Global Health Law
Race, Ethnicity and the Dynamics of Health Insurance Coverage
Robert W. Fairlie
University of California; Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA); RAND Corporation
Rebecca A. London
Stanford University
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3708
Abstract:
Using matched data from the 1996 to 2004 Current Population Survey (CPS), we examine racial patterns in annual transitions into and out of health insurance coverage. We [...]
Value your life with low cost insurance plans
Health is wealth! This phrase truly justifies the low cost insurance plans of Apollo DKV. I purchased a health insurance plan from Apollo DKV Insurance Company Ltd. I was looking for low cost health insurance plan that can cover me and my family for in-patient treatment, expenses for day care procedures, domiciliary treatment, expenses for [...]
Ensure you’re insured
The financial world has recently been in turmoil. I understand very little of it because there is too much fine print. Even experts are divided on what is right thing to do next.
Retail investors are even more confused. Financial instruments have become too sophisticated for the layman to understand.
The bank retailers argue that investors have [...]