Content tagged with "health-care"
I’ve been following this case for about a month now. It’s a good demonstration of how cutting health case costs is going to be harder than it seems. Case against Blue Cross shows difficulty of cutting health costs You see, if you cut costs – even in ways unrelated to patient care, like becoming more…
Reading a book called Rise of the Robots about the increasing role of automation in our lives. The author takes a bit of a detour in the chapter on health care to discuss how the markets are broken. I’m not sure how related to automation this is, but he makes this interesting point: …every other…
Here’s an amazingly interesting article about the possible future of health care. This is an actual, practical manifestation of the “let’s make health care more efficient” pipe dream. Lower Costs and Better Care for Neediest Patients A doctor in Camden, New Jersey decided to try and fix their…
How Safeway Is Cutting Health-Care Costs: Here’s an interesting article about what the supermarket chain Safeway is doing about health care costs. First, they start with an important point: the only way to curb health care costs in this country is for us all to get healthier. Health-care spending…
I had lunch yesterday about noon. Somewhere around 2 p.m., I started to get intense abdominal pain – it was a burning/pressure-type pain high in my abdomen, just under my sternum. Eight hours later, I was on an operating table getting my appendix removed. About ten hours after that, I sit here, in…
This is brutal article, which, if accurate, is a damning indictment of the business of medicine. The Cost Conundrum The writer went to McAllen, Texas, which has the highest cost of medical spending in the country, to find out why medical care is so expensive. The bottom line turns out to be that the…