The United States is paying more for health care and getting less. In a distributed handout on why the country needs to pass H.R. 676, a graph showed how America stacked up against France, Sweden, Italy and Finland. It wasn’t encouraging. All four nations have Universal Healthcare and paid parental leave. It was noted that [...]

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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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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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Insurance companies second guessing doctors recommendations, higher overheads, longer waits for insurance reimbursements, higher insurance costs. It all adds up to more doctors leaving the profession. What can we expect in the future? Longer waits, mini clinic boom, more nurse practitioners and a personal doctor will become a symbol of the rich. I see two [...]

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America’s health insurance problems are getting worse. Half the respondents in a survey of primary care physicians (aka the family doctor) said they would seriously consider getting out of the medical business within the next three years if they had an alternative. Why? Because of all the red tape from insurance companies and government agencies. [...]

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