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The No Insurance Club: Innovative Prepaid Medical Plans That Restore the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Oct 20, 2009
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The No Insurance Club on FOX:What's the No Insurance Club?For annual fee of just $480 for singles ($580 for couples and $680 for families) The No Insurance Club offers affordable pre-paid health care plans that cover basic me (Read More)
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With Canadians enduring pain for months and years while they wait for surgery, traveling to the U.S. for treatment, entering "lotteries" to get a doctor, and getting "wait list insurance," is Canada really a model for U.S. he (Read More)
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Chartered in 1770, Williamsburg's "Publick Hospital" was established "for the support and maintenance of Ideots, Lunaticks, and other Persons of unsound Minds" who threatened colonial society. The hospital hoped to restore it (Read More)
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Caster Semenya, the South African runner who won the women's 800-meter race at the World Track Championships in Berlin last month, has been unofficially declared intersexed. If she is, it means that she was born with some dis (Read More)
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This past spring, first lady Michelle Obama invited some Washington school children to join her in planting an organic kitchen garden on the White House grounds. While the war on obesity was her chief concern, more striking w (Read More)
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CHICAGO TRIBUNE -- The University of Michigan-Flint is launching an online doctoral program in nursing this fall. The university says the nurse practitioners it trains will be able to assess and manage medical and nursing pro (Read More)
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Aug 26, 2009
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WIRED.COM -- Kaiser Permanente has long relied on a simple strategy of building complete, self-sustaining hospitals—employing 50 doctors or more—in each region it serves. "It's an efficient model," says Michele Flanagin, Kais (Read More)
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For roughly the first half of the twentieth century and before, out-patient medicine in the United States was delivered mostly in the offices of private generalist physicians [general practitioners] - solo practitioners or me (Read More)
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President Obama and the United States Congress continue to struggle with an overhaul of the nation’s health care system, with American physicians and patients alike often expressing frustration with medical practices and the (Read More)
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In the debates on health care, many claim that the relatively low life expectancy in the U.S. compared to Canada and Europe and elsewhere is evidence of an inferior, second-rate American health care system. See some examples (Read More)
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As a follow-up to my recent post on The Shriners Hospital for Children, which provides free medical care for children, and is an example of a privately-funded, non-government, charitable solution to rising health care costs, (Read More)
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While still writing on my doctoral thesis, I received as a comment on an early version from a professor in my university, “that few people today believe in history as the vita magistra.” At first this statement shocked me, bu (Read More)
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Jul 29, 2009
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Need insurance now? Insta-Care from BlueCross BlueShield Minnesota meets your needs.Short-term coverage from Blue Cross can be a great choice for people like this:Between jobsJust out of schoolWaiting for an employer’s covera (Read More)
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Jul 28, 2009
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I just visited the health clinic at the Richfield (MN) Super Target (one of 22 Super Targets in the Twin Cities with convenient, walk-in, affordable health clinics) and took the picture above featuring "camp and sports physi (Read More)
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Jul 09, 2009
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At a time when law-school graduates are facing greater debt and fewer job opportunities, the University of Miami School of Law has offered to pay accepted students to stay away—at least for a year. The school's unusual offer, (Read More)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS -- "I would warn Americans that once the government gets its nose into health care, it's hard to stop the dangerous effects later," said Valentin Petkantchin, of the Institut Economique Molinari in France. He (Read More)
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The marketplace doesn't determine how many doctors the nation has, as it does for engineers, pilots and other professions. The number of doctors is a political decision, heavily influenced by doctors themselves.And Congress a (Read More)
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The beginning of May marks the end of income tax season in Canada. Over one-half of the personal income taxes Canadians just paid in aggregate are required to cover the cost of our taxpayerfunded health care program. Given th (Read More)
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In an NBER working paper "A Dynamic Model of Price Discrimination and Inventory Management at the Fulton Fish Market" two Brandeis University economists studied fish-purchasing patterns over 22 weeks and found that white cus (Read More)
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After decades of struggle, countless tax dollars spent, and at the overwhelming sacrifice of many spent genius minds, medical science appears to have finally discovered a cure for the ghastly condition commonly known as: Cab (Read More)
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