Tag: obamacare

Overmedicating the elderly instead of caring for them; is this a side effect of for profit medicine?

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Over medicating the elderly instead of caring for them; is this a side effect of for profit medicine? Years ago, when you visited a doctor, they would spend whatever time was needed to figure out your problem. While not a perfect system, most of us thought of our doctor as not only someone who helped us in times of trouble but also someone we could rely on and trust. Some of us may have been placed on a blood pressure medicine or another medication and would be managed simply by their doctor, A specialist who may have been required if Read More »

Here is how we can achieve universal healthcare in the USA painlessly.

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Here is how we can achieve universal healthcare in the USA painlessly. No matter what your political beliefs are, we all need to have a healthcare system that is affordable. The United States is unique in how healthcare and insurers have been tied together since the 1940s. The insurance industry as it stands is a colossal failure if we look at how they have curtailed costs, helping to create a system of in or out of network plans that are incentivized to cost us more year to year through the Obamacare 80/20 rule. You may have noticed that hospital systems Read More »

Obamacare insurers are leaving the exchanges, except this one. Find out why Centene sees this as an opportunity.

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Obamacare insurers are leaving the exchanges, except this one.  Find out why Centene sees this as an opportunity. As insurers leave the Obamacare exchanges, one insurer believes see’s an opportunity in the void left by some of the major insurance companies. The side story is that some insurers left the exchanges as a marketing tool the be able to merge and create mega insurers; something probably not good for the public or the doctors who serve them. Obamacare has created a set of rules from state to state that assures that your health insurance is complete coverage.  Unfortunately, it has Read More »

Sifting through the misinformation of healthcare reform and how it affects all of us.

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Sifting through the misinformation of healthcare reform and how it affects all of us. Who should we believe has the best solutions for how we get better and more cost effective healthcare in the USA.   Should we have single payor, more insurers, insurers that go across state lines, vouchers, higher deductibles, Obamacare, Trumpcare, etc. If all of these are great ideas, why is it that they all cost so much.  Even the experts admit that if we went single payor ala Medicare for all, the most we could probably save would be 20%, something most of us would gladly embrace Read More »

Obamacare or Nobamacare, why this is just a symptom of what is wrong with healthcare in the USA

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Obamacare or Nobamacare, why this is just a symptom of what is wrong with healthcare in the USA The election is over and a large portion of the population has either renewed or newly purchased a new health care plan from one of the exchanges beginning this month.   The insurance companies are slowly removing themselves from the exchanges and talk of a public option of some sort to fill in the void by President Obama and candidate Clinton was read about in our newspapers. According to what we read, health care costs overall had been kept in check over the Read More »