From The New York Times: Teaching Physicians the Price of Care Until recently, most medical schools provided little information on financial factors, like how the insurance system works and how treatment costs affect patients’ behavior. http://nyti.ms/b0lzKK
April 28, 2010
Bioethics Forum April 27, 2010 9:54 AM by Susan Gilbert My eggs are ripe for the taking – I am a 22-year-old female Yale graduate. On a semi-regular basis in college, I opened the school newspaper to find advertisements soliciting my demographic to donate. Some ads were more specific than others, requiring a Jewish or… [Read more…]
April 23, 2010
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Shortly after they were diagnosed with breast cancer, each of the women learned that her health insurance had been canceled. There was Yenny Hsu, who lived and worked in Los Angeles. And there was Patricia Reilling, a successful art gallery owner and interior designer from Louisville, Kentucky. Neither of these women… [Read more…]
April 22, 2010
From The New York Times: Benefit for Uninsured May Still Pose Hurdle Under the new health care act, some people with low incomes might face penalties if they don’t buy health insurance. http://nyti.ms/aNdjQt
April 1, 2008
When asked who pays for health care in the United States, the usual answer is “employers, government, and individuals.” Most Americans believe that employers pay the bulk of workers’ premiums and that governments pay for Medicare, Medicaid, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and other programs.
June 19, 2007
June 11, 2007 issue – You have never heard of the Treaty of Detroit, which you may connect with the French and Indian War (1756-1763). Guess again. The Treaty of Detroit is a long-lost label describing a series of landmark labor agreements between the United Auto Workers and the Big Three U.S. automakers. Starting with… [Read more…]
May 25, 2007
On the Health Affairs blog an article titled “HOSPITALS: “Soak the Poor:” Uninsured Hit With Higher Hospital Bills” has this to say:
February 22, 2007
Real Clear Politics Among the many rationales used to defend the welfare state, the most powerful is that it is necessary, in order to take care of the poor and the downtrodden. But the amount of money required to bring every poor person in the country above the official poverty line is a fraction of… [Read more…]
February 14, 2007
Absence of Health Insurance Coverage Costs $1.47 Billion in Maryland Expenditures for the uninsured in Maryland totaled $1.47 billion in FY2002, according to an analysis conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The sum equates to $2,371 per individual without health insurance—paid for by state and federal funds, private insurance… [Read more…]
January 11, 2007
Income disparities is a hot and sensitive topic that rears its head every time income numbers and tax reports are made public. According to a recent NYT editorial this trend seems to be going in favor of the rich. So seems like this not only a problem in growing economies like China and India but… [Read more…]
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