Research shows inadequate health insurance accounts for nearly 67 percent of all bankruptcies. This statistic is staggering, and illustrates a difficult reality for the many American families navigating today’s insurance market. Not only can medi…
Category: Public Health & Policy
How did we let insurers run health care?
How did we Americans allow health insurers to dictate how physicians practice good medicine? The hypocritic oath says, “Do no harm.” We should not allow insurance company profits to prevent proper care for patients. Our insurer is now telli…
Direct primary care is an answer to volume-based insurance reimbursement models
An excerpt from Medical Answers Now!: How Direct Primary Care Guarantees Fast Access to Your Doctor. Health care costs are out of control and volume-based insurance reimbursement models are felt to be contributing to the problem. Medicare and most majo…
Direct primary care is an answer to volume-based insurance reimbursement models
An excerpt from Medical Answers Now!: How Direct Primary Care Guarantees Fast Access to Your Doctor. Health care costs are out of control and volume-based insurance reimbursement models are felt to be contributing to the problem. Medicare and most majo…
Getting messy in the game of health care [PODCAST]
“Many patients, doctors, nurses, and health care administrators appear to have a seat on the blimp with little concept of how the game has evolved over the years and is being played now. They may have attended the game in the past, but they likel…
Diagnosis: malformation of a health care system [PODCAST]
“The diagnosis is well-established. A cure is within our reach, and the wisest among our practitioners of the healing arts are offering valuable counsel. When the U.S. government and science, in its most principled form, work together, insulated …
It is time for Supreme Court to help stem gun deaths
Every morning when I turn on the local Philadelphia TV news to hear the weather report, I also hear about the shootings that have occurred. This morning I heard that a 66-year-old man was shot while driving past his old high school. A fight had broken …
The blueprint for a Gold Medal Health Care System
An excerpt from Blueprint for a Gold Medal Health Care System. We do not currently have a Gold Medal Health Care System. There may be more than one way to build one, but this book is about my vision of a Gold Medal system, and I will henceforth refer t…
The success of Australian firearms regulation: What it could mean for children
An article in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2018 noted the sad milestone that firearms were causing 15% of all deaths in children and adolescents. Somewhat encouraging, a later study showed states with stricter firearm laws correlated with low…
Systemic racism and Indigenous deaths in health care
Ni cta ni akohikon: That hurts me. Carol pe ntamici: Carol, come see me. Ni taci sa micta mackikikatakoiin: They are overdosing me on drugs. Wipatc tca: Do it quickly. Those were the chilling words of Joyce Echaquan, broadcasting live from Facebook on …
