Health care costs will exceed $8,000 per person in 2009, according to a report by the Department of Health and Human Services. That’s a $356 per person increase in health care spending. The rising medical costs will consume a bigger piece of a shrinking economy. Another bleak piece of information in the report was that [...]

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You hear 45 million American’s are uninsured. But who are they? What are their demographics? Why don’t they purchased medical insurance?
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The recession is effecting people’s ability to pay for health care and causing them to turn to the emergency room for their medical needs. Why? Federal law prohibits an E.R. from rejecting patients based on their ability to pay for their health care. And it will likely get worse.
According to a U.S. Institute of Medicine [...]

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One key in successful preventative health care is a healthy diet and excise. And the computer is becoming an unlikely ally in the battle for better preventative health care strategies. One of the main reasons computers are becoming a tool for preventative medical care is Internet based health care services. For example these services allow [...]

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The current medical care system is largely fee for services, where doctors and hospitals are paid for service at prices negotiated with medical insurance companies or mandated by the government. The current economic recession has caused businesses to move to high co-pays and deductibles to influence employees to seek only necessary medical care.
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This YouTube sensation medical video “A Short Course in Brain Surgery,” shows the callousness of “single-payer”, government-run health care systems as practiced in Canada.
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Hidden inside the $800 billion stimulus plan are health provisions that will affect every American’s medical care. Funds from the stimulus will create a new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, who will monitor everyone’s medical treatments to make sure your doctor is performing what the federal government has deemed appropriate and cost [...]

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President Barack Obama speaks about preventive health care in a speech. He says that U.S. citizens spend less than 4 cents of every dollar they spend on medical expenses on preventive health care even though 80 percent of the risk factors involved in the leading cause of disease are behavior related and thus preventable. He [...]

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According to a new study, half the low-income people who have become unemployed, are without medical insurance. Last December there were about 5.8 million jobless in the U.S. with incomes about $44,100 for a family of four. About 3.1 million did not have health insurance. COBRA medical insurance is too expensive for most people to [...]

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A growing number of medical doctors are using computer programs than can immediately access a patient’s health insurance information and let the medical practice know what the patients co-pay rates is. With this information, called ‘real time claims adjudication,’ medical doctors are asking patients to pay those costs at the time of service…a.k.a remember to [...]

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