High blood pressure in obese kids has been linked to watching too much television.
This might seem like common medical sense, too much lazy TV watching leads to obesity which in turn can result in bad health and hypertension.
But it’s interesting to look at the average time spent watching TV and the effect it has on [...]

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The movement in the United States that is trying to nationalize the healthcare system, making it more like Europe, leaves out little bits of data and statistics about nationalized medical care programs.
A 2006 census estimated 46.6 million people in the United States with no health insurance. Of this, 9.5 million without insurance were not United [...]

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By: Devon Herrick of the National Center For Policy Analysis
A layoff does not have to involve losing your health coverage.  Although there is no need to panic, you should not put off taking action.  Here are 10 options to consider as soon as possible after getting pink-slipped.
1. Use It Before You Lose It. One of [...]

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By: John Goodmann
One of the most innovative thinkers in the field of health insurance is University of Chicago Professor John Cochrane. I’ve been meaning to write about him for some time and am spurred to do so now by a new policy report from the Cato Institute.
Here is the back story. After hail damages the [...]

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A recent medical insurance study predicts a public health insurance option for the middle class would put private insurers out of business.
The study, done by the Lewin Group, found that if such a medical plan were available to all employers and individuals, and if it paid medical doctors and hospitals the same as Medicare, the [...]

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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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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.
The two major [...]

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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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The billions expected to be put into the health care system as a result of the economic stimulus package will do little about the chronic conditions behind the nation’s large ranks of uninsured. It is just a temporary band aid to make COBRA medical insurance more affordable for people who lost their jobs. Currently it [...]

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Doctors and other health care professionals across the United States are seeing an increase the number people who no longer have medical insurance because they just lost their job. The unemployed have the option to go with the medical insurance known as COBRA. But the costs are so much that it’s taking a large chunk [...]

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