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Your Health, Your Sex, Your Pleasure
2008-02-12 16:56:00 The Best Way to Have Great Sex is To Talk About It! It is inevitable, that sex talk is not approachable for many people. We have all had questions regarding sex, yet seem to forget or be too embarrassed to ask our doctors, or even, our friends. The only way to learn more about sex and ... More About: Health , Pleasure
News of a note - Week of February 4, 2008
2008-02-11 17:52:00 Another week is behind us and the Health 2.0 news is hotter than ever. Moving out of the shade and into the limelight, the Health 2.0 movement is gaining popularity and backing at an AWESOME rate. The Simplicity of Health 2.0 Terms Reading the concepts of the Health 2.0 movement sometimes does not get the point across. ... More About: News , Note , Week , February , 2008
News of a note
2008-02-01 23:50:00 This week has been a busy week for the Health 2.0 community. User-generated health care is a fast growing topic of discussion and some of the biggest companies both in health care and on the Internet are beginning to take notice. One of the biggest stories this week legitimizes the Health 2.0 concept. The HealthCentral Network ... More About: News , Note
Professional guinea pigs
2008-01-21 16:27:00 Carl Elliot has written an article called ?Guinea -Pigging? about people who earn their living testing drugs. Payment itself is a real dilemma. New drugs need to be tested for safety, and I can?t imagine that many people will volunteer to test the safety of new drugs for free anymore, especially if it means checking into a ... More About: News , Guinea Pigs , Pigs , Professional
Doctors prescribe placebo more than you?d think
2008-01-19 15:47:00 At least in Israel. Dov Michaeli looks at this study and examines the use of placebo in general. Some have advocated banning the clinical use of placebos because of the deception involved in administration and the possible harm to the doctor-patient relationship. Others have suggested guidelines for the proper use of placebos without violating the patient’s ... More About: News , Doctors , Placebo
The future of health care
2008-01-19 05:47:00 Fred Fortin looks at various prognostications and offers a few of his own, including his skepticism about Health 2.0. Don?t see much of a business case for health 2.0 technologies, although personal health records as a concept has some validity, particularly as a service provided by health plans and employers. At the same time, Fortin sees the ... More About: Health Care , Future , The Future , Care
The case of the missing liver transplant
2008-01-11 18:49:00 Scott Gottlieb looks at the story of Nataline Sarkisyan, a 17-year-old girl who was denied a liver transplant by her health insurer and subsequently died. John Edwards used the girl’s story as a morality tale in which the big, bad insurance company allowed an innocent child to die out of greed. The implication being that the ... More About: Election , Case , Missing , Liver , Missi
News of note
2008-01-09 14:13:00 Zagat doctor rating goes live. Given Anthem’s national footprint, the longer-term impact of this project could fan out to Anthem’s 35 million members from west to east coast. Anthem’s state coverage includes California, through WellPoint; as well as Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri (excluding Kansas City), Nevada, New Hampshire, New York (in New York ... More About: News , Note
The candidates on healthcare: fred Thompson
2008-01-01 14:15:00 Another free marketeer, Fred Thompson would streamline regulations and make health insurance portable. Thompson would also cut Medicare benefits for high income seniors. Realigns programs and creates a system around individual consumers and patients by providing more information and more opportunities to choose affordable health care options that best meet their needs and those of their ... More About: Healthcare , Candidates , Election
The candidates on health care: Mitt Romney
2007-12-31 15:39:00 Romney, the man who made health insurance mandatory as governor of Massachusetts, isn’t advocating the same as president. Romney relies on tax reforms to expand accessibility to healthcare. He would: Eliminate the minimum deductible requirement for Health Savings Accounts. Permit full deductibility of medical expenses, including premiums. Give states flexibility to restructure Medicaid. States could use block grant ... More About: Health Care , Mitt Romney , Care , Candidates
The candidates on healthcare: Ron Paul
2007-12-29 12:54:00 The only physician among the Presidential candidates, Ron Paul doesn’t believe in government interference in healthcare. In fact, he did not accept Medicare or Medicaid in his practice. The federal government decided long ago that it knew how to manage your health care better than you and replaced personal responsibility and accountability with a system ... More About: Healthcare , Candidates , Election
The candidates on healthcare: John McCain
2007-12-27 12:55:00 Senator John McCain would provide a tax credit to all individuals and families to increase incentives for insurance coverage. McCain, who opposes mandatory insurance coverage, would remove the current bias towards employer-provided insurance by providing a tax credit of $2,500 for individuals and $5,000 for families to purchase insurance. Employers, however, would no longer be ... More About: Healthcare , Candidates , Election , John McCain
The candidates on health care: Mike Huckabee
2007-12-22 13:43:00 Governor Mike Huckabee opposes mandated health insurance “by federal edict,” favoring instead a free market approach that uses tax credits and deductions to encourage people to buy their own insurance. Huckabee would make Health Savings Accounts available to everyone, not just those with high-deductible plans. He would make insurance portable, allowing workers to carry insurance from ... More About: Health Care , Care , Candidates
The candidates on health care: Rudy Giuliani
2007-12-19 13:42:00 Rudy Giuliani stresses a free-market approach to healthcare that would offer tax deductions to people without employer-based coverage. Low-income families would receive a tax credit to help subsidize the cost of insurance. The details: Families without employer-based coverage would get a deduction of up to $15,000 to make insurance more affordable. Low-income individuals would receive a refundable ... More About: Health , Health Care , Rudy Giuliani , Care , Candidates
News of note
2007-12-14 13:29:00 Health 2.0 is looking for patients who have used the Health 2.0 technologies in their everyday life. Has the web changed your life? Does it help you deal with the isolation of a condition or improve your quality of life in some other way? We are looking for a few good consumers/patients to feature live on ... More About: News , Features , Note
Finding a doctor: The wisdom of crowds, II
2007-12-13 13:25:00 Last week, I wrote about Zagat’s entry into the doctor-rating game. I argued that the more resources available to the consumer, the better. Did you know that Health World Web members can also add their voice to the mix? Simply go to our Provider Search, find the physician you want to rate and take it from ... More About: Features , Wisdom , Doctor , Wisdom of Crowds
Another tool for healthcare consumers
2007-12-09 19:20:00 The Cochrane Collaboration “produces and disseminates systematic reviews of healthcare interventions and promotes the search for evidence in the form of clinical trials and other studies of interventions.” More here. Via David Rothman. More About: Healthcare , Tool , Consumers , Heal
Finding a doctor: The wisdom of crowds
2007-12-05 15:57:00 Will we ever be able to Google “best doctor [specialty] [city]” as Bob Wachter envisions? I hope so. In the meantime, I welcome Zagat’s entry into the doctor-rating field. And to Google I say: “Come on in. The water’s warm.” The Zagat criteria for rating physicians have been criticized as superficial and for not considering factors ... More About: Wisdom , Doctor , Wisdom of Crowds
The candidates on health care: Bill Richardson
2007-11-30 15:19:00 Bill Richardson advocates mandatory health insurance. He would achieve this by: Requiring employers to contribute to health insurance coverage on a sliding scale basis Offering tax credits to individuals. Providing a variety of ways to obtain insurance, including: Allowing Americans age 55-64 to purchase Medicare coverage; Providing sliding scale, refundable tax credits for purchase of coverage through employer plans Allowing people ... More About: Health , Health Care , Bill Richardson , Care , Candidates
The candidates on health care: Barack Obama
2007-11-30 14:57:00 Obama would make health insurance coverage for children mandatory and would require employers to offer employee health benefits or contribute to the cost of a new public program. His public plan would expand Medicaid and SCHIP and allow small businesses and individuals without access to insurance to enroll in the new public program. Under Obama’s plan: Individuals ... More About: Health , Health Care , Barack Obama , Barack , Obama
The candidates on health care: Dennis Kucinich
2007-11-28 12:37:00 Dennis Kucinich would establish “Medicare for all,” a universal public plan under which all Americans would be covered. Benefits would be comprehensive, including dental, mental health and vision services, and long-term care, and no deductibles or other cost sharing would be imposed. Only public or not-for-profit providers would be allowed to participate in the single-payer ... More About: Health , Health Care , Care , Candidates , Election
News of note
2007-11-27 13:07:00 City living increases breast cancer risk. Researchers, presenting the study to the Radiological Society of North America, said air pollution was likely to be the cause of denser breasts. It is thought air pollution contains tiny particles that mimic female sex hormones and can disrupt the make up of breasts. Professor Kefah Mokbel, one of the researchers, said: ... More About: News , Note
The candidates on health care: John Edwards
2007-11-20 00:28:00 John Edwards promises universal coverage by 2012 with a proposal that requires individuals to obtain health insurance and requires their employers to help finance that coverage. Edwards would improve access to insurance by creating Health Markets, not-for-profit purchasing pools that would offer competing public and private health plans. The plan would establish tax credits to ... More About: Health Care , John Edwards , John , Care
Members of Congress love their insurance plan
2007-11-19 15:06:00 At least the Democratic ones running for President do. Readers will note that of the candidate health plans outlined so far, all have based their plan on the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. So what is it about his plan? The FEHBP is a voluntary plan open to federal civilian employees. Actually it’s a group of ... More About: Congress , Love , Insurance , Election , Plan
The candidates on health care: Chris Dodd
2007-11-18 18:51:00 Senator Chris Dodd also proposes universal coverage through a plan he calls Universal Health Mart. He proposes a health insurance marketplace based on the Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan. Individuals and businesses will pay for coverage based on their ability to pay. More details: Universal, Affordable Coverage. Coverage will flow automatically to all Americans and will follow people, ... More About: Health Care , Care , Candidates , Election
The candidates on health care: Hillary Clinton
2007-11-16 21:50:00 Senator Hillary Clinton describes her plan as affordable, available and reliable. Using a mix of public and private insurance, Clinton proposes universal coverage. She claims the plan will cost $110 billion a year when fully phased in, but maintains that $35 billion of that will be financed by savings from quality and modernization initiatives. Clinton anticipates an ... More About: Health , Health Care , Care , Candidates
The candidates on health care: Joe Biden
2007-11-16 21:26:00 Senator Joe Biden proposes a 4-part plan at a cost of about $110 billion. Cover All Children: He would expand the State Children?s Health Insurance Program to 300 percent of the federal poverty level and allow all families to buy into SCHIP with sliding scale premiums and co-payments based on family income. Children would be eligible ... More About: Health Care , Care , Candidates
News of note
2007-11-09 16:56:00 Jane Sarasohn-Kahn looks at a Business Roundtable report on employers who provide healthcare coverage. And finds a recipe for a successful employee health care plan. There’s a three-legged approach that is consistent across successful heath-promoting employers: 1. Create a culture of wellness in the company 2. Focus on the health of each employee, with customized interventions that are ... More About: News , Note
Where to find prescription drug help
2007-11-06 16:53:00 If you don’t qualify for Medicaid and can’t afford health insurance, you may qualify for a patient assistance program for your medications. There are a number of different options out there. There are a number of directories out there, such as the RxAssist Directory of Patient Assistance Programs, which has a medication database that tells you ... More About: Find , Drug , Prescription
News of note
More articles from this author:2007-10-30 14:58:00 Cigna comes to terms with Andrew Cuomo, the New York attorney general, on a plan to rate doctors. Cuomo has been critical of insurers’ ratings, saying the companies place too much emphasis on cost. Jane Sarasohn-Kahn looks at a survey on healthcare attitudes in Iowa, home of the first presidential caucus. Iowans believe that (1) health care ... More About: News , Note 1, 2, 3 |
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