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Frederick Smith

Healthcare-Reform - 1 views

Health care reform is an issue that has been on the political front burner for me this year - as it has been for so many others, now and in 1993-4, if not earlier. (The comments below draw in part...

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started by Frederick Smith on 10 Jan 10 no follow-up yet
Frederick Smith

Wheaton President Ryken's Reply To Alumni Protesting Lawsuit Against HHS Over ACA Contr... - 0 views

Dr. Philip Ryken, President, Wheaton College alumni@wheaton.edu via email.imodules.com Reply-to: alumni@wheaton.edu Date: Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:00 PM Subject: Responding to your feedback regar...

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started by Frederick Smith on 29 Jul 12 no follow-up yet
Frederick Smith

NSLIJHS Looks To Become Insurer, As Well As Provider Of Care - 0 views

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    The North Shore-LIJ Health System, with 16 hospitals and more than 300 outpatient centers in Long Island and New York City, is laying the groundwork to be an insurer, as well as a provider of health care.
Frederick Smith

A TRAGIC TRAVESTY: I - 0 views

A TRAGIC TRAVESTY: INSURER DENIES COVERAGE FOR A 22-Y.O. WOMAN'S RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AS A "PRE-EXISTING CONDITION"     20 years ago I had an unforgettable patient experience that co...

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started by Frederick Smith on 06 Jan 11 no follow-up yet
Frederick Smith

Insurance Doesn't Lower Costs, Tries To Deny Services To Maintain Margin - 0 views

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    Problems with Private Insurance (by financier)
Frederick Smith

Dying for Coverage: Deadly Conseq's of No Insur - 0 views

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    26,000 premature deaths/yr in US b/o no health insurance
Frederick Smith

Historic Passage - Reform at Last - NEJM,3/24/10 - 0 views

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    John K. Iglehart: 'President Barack Obama, sealing a hard-fought and historic victory, has signed into law the Democrats' comprehensive health care reform bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a sweeping measure that would expand coverage to 32 million uninsured Americans. Appearing March 23 in the White House, Obama said, "Today . . . health insurance reform becomes law in the United States of America. . . . We have just enshrined the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their health care." '
Frederick Smith

J.Brody - New Model of HC Needed - 0 views

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    "Those who work in geriatric care are among the worst paid in the health care system. Is the time I spend as a surgeon excising a patient's cancer worth 10 times more than the time the primary care doctor spent finding the cancer in the first place?" Dr. Gawande, who examined the problems of medical care for the aged last year in The New Yorker, pointed out that as we grow older, "we don't get one problem at a time." "People with multiple problems need time, and that is not cheap and is currently not paid for by medical insurance," he said. "It's not possible to address five different problems in a 20-minute visit." Dr. Gawande, who examined the problems of medical care for the aged last year in The New Yorker, pointed out that as we grow older, "we don't get one problem at a time.... People with multiple problems need time, and that is not cheap and is currently not paid for by medical insurance," he said. "It's not possible to address five different problems in a 20-minute visit."
Frederick Smith

ECONOMICS & UNIN - 0 views

ECONOMICS & UNINSURED An individual's lack of health insurance affects everyone in the country economically, so requiring it is constitutional.  When the uninsured person goes to the ER, t...

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started by Frederick Smith on 06 Jan 11 no follow-up yet
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My letter, and others, about effort to defund ACA, & gov't shutdown - 0 views

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    My letter focuses on bioethical principles. ACA seeks to promote beneficence & justice (and decrease the maleficent impact of our nation's decision, so far, to allow 15% of the population to remain without health insurance, and suffer its deleterious health consequences).
Frederick Smith

When a Co-Pay Gets in the Way of Health -by By SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN - 0 views

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    'A few drugs - such as beta-blockers, statins and glycogen control medications - have proved very effective at managing hypertension, heart disease, diabetes and strokes. Most insurance plans charge something for them. Why not make drugs like these free? Not for everyone, but just the groups for whom they are provably effective. In traditional economics, such a policy creates waste. The basic principle is moral hazard: consumers overuse goods that are subsidized. But people don't always follow a cost-benefit logic. The problem is basic human psychology. Heart disease is silent, with few noticeable symptoms. You feel fine most of the time, so it's all too easy to justify skipping the statin. The problem here is the exact opposite of moral hazard. People are not overusing ineffective drugs; they are underusing highly effective ones. This is a quandary that ... call "behavioral hazard." We've found that co-payments do not resolve behavioral hazard. They make it worse. They reduce the use of a drug that is already underused. My proposal is targeted: Take drugs that are shown to be of very high benefit to some people, and make those drugs free for them. All co-pays should depend on measured medical value; high co-pays should be reserved for drugs and medical services that have little proven value. Why not focus instead on the behaviors - eating unhealthy foods or shunning exercise - that created the conditions we must now treat with drugs? [This]has some merit. But [it] fails the "perfect as the enemy of the good" test.
Frederick Smith

The Emerging "Coffee Party" Movement & coincidental convergence - 1 views

Americans' Break for Coffee: "Let's wake up, smell the coffee, and converse civilly about America's ABCs" (Incomplete write-up-2/14/10) A. Our Government is Paralyzed Americans Break for Coff...

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started by Frederick Smith on 03 Mar 10 no follow-up yet
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Retirees Snared by Medicare - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    Perils of ignoring Medicare isues at age 65
Frederick Smith

Responses to P. Chen, http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/11/letting-doctors-make-the... - 0 views

1  . Old Colonial Texas, now August 11th, 2011 1:10 pm What is critical here is the concept of long-term relationships between doctors and their patients, which most states are now destr...

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started by Frederick Smith on 15 Aug 11 no follow-up yet
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