Six Million People Keep Their Insurance
Keeping Obama-Care is the first step – but far from the only step. Some market-types are correct, here are some solutions for better healthcare for all.
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Subsidize Big Corporations or Your Health Insurance?
The Supreme Court will decide if granting subsidies for people to purchase health insurance is constitutional. Going against that proposal is the GOP, and the Koch brothers who have received tens of millions of dollars in federal subsidies. Sorry- it is time for that nonsense to stop.
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Why US Healthcare Costs More
Why do we have healthcare inflation in the United States? Because of price, not because of quality – because of prices. The ability of national systems to negotiate with drug companies, device makers, and hospitals has driven health care costs down. The effect of this is that other countries can afford to cover everyone, without high deductibles.
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Obamacare hits 7.1 million: Good News and Bad News
There is good news and bad news about increasing coverage of health care. Here are the simple facts of Obama-care and where we should go next with our system.
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Expansion of Primary Care and Relationships Leads to Less ER Visits
The way to provide health care delivery isn’t just to insure everyone, but to develop community based health care on relationships, trust, and listening. This has resulted in decreasing costs of healthcare and provided a model of healthcare in the world.
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New Health Insurance: What to Look for in a Hospital
A few tips about the hospitals you look for and what they offer as you consider what new insurance you should go for. If you are like the vast majority of Americans, you have no idea what the insurance plan covers, doesn’t cover, and don’t know if the insurance company will keep your doctor in its network.
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Medical Device Tax: Obama-Care – What Is It
The medical device tax has been misrepresented as something that would cost American jobs – and some bloggers have cited companies. In fact, it won’t cost jobs. Here are some of those companies and why they are losing jobs- nothing to do with Obama-care. This is an excise tax, which is like many other excise taxes that are used in this country.
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Obama-Care: Adding People to Insurance Costs Us Less
The myth that increasing the number of people with insurance will add to healthcare costs has been disproven by the award winning care given by SouthCentral Foundation.
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Physician Shortage in the U.S.: Increasing Wait Times
The shortage of American doctors has arrived, and it is becoming critical. There are more physicians who are retiring than we are training, and fewer people are entering medical school as a profession.
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