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We are reaching a tipping point where health plans are no longer able to raise rates quickly enough to cover their increasing Medical Loss Ratios in the commercial market. As the commercial sector becomes tighter, plans have expanded into Federal and State contracts with Medicare and Medicaid to maintain...
Patients, who are really consumers of medical services, want their care close to home where family and friends can easily visit and support them. There are health risks in traveling great distances with severe conditions. Different cultures with different languages are not where most people want to...
-diabetes and diabetic retinopathy is on the rise due to an increasing epidemic of obesity
-diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness in the United States
Primary care access will be a growing need, with or without "healthcare reform" as is currently understood--extending coverage or re-arranging financing. Without better primary care of chronic conditions and preventive services, procedural and "rescue" costs will drive US care expenditures. There are...
The requirements of "market forces" or better free market enterprize as defined by Adam Smith has long been obliterated from American Health care.
In the absence the of the free market and daily attack on the Golden rule. one cannot rely on increased demand ultimately dictating more supply.
American...
Health plans have merely followed the payment (reimbursement) profile created in the 1940's by the trade unions of hospitals and physicians who were dominated by specialists and special interests.
Only primary care physicians have had a real drop in real income in the last 7 years while specialists...
Countless attempts have been made over the 30 years I have been in the healthcare business to address escalating benefit costs. Thus far none of them has worked, at least not on any realistic scale, including several options my own company developed. Liberals want national healthcare because they think...
Consumers and physicians alike must become more cost conscious to attend to our medical inflation rate that is mostly technologically driven--both immaging diagnostics and pharmaceuticals. Physicians will always play the role as the patient's medical fiduciary to inform the patient on relevant and appropriate...