Healthcare: Free market options are available and growing
Who said health care must be expensive and essentially dominated by the US government and insurance companies? Free market options are out there and this sector is growing as the government-insurance cartel crumbles More...
Care givers have their tasks cut out to keep seniors hale and hearty
Coping up with the years after retirement are worrisome for many seniors especially when they decide to spend their time at home. Although there might be family members surrounding them, it is not expected that More...
Health News: Staying Healthy with Routine Checkups
Going for checkups on a regular basis with your doctor is crucial for good health. Routine checkups give you the opportunity to get a general health review, undergo screening tests and deal with various medical More...
Issues that are blighting the US healthcare system
Whether the US healthcare system works or not is a question for another day. As we all know, this is a hotly-contested topic and it’s one that’s not going to go away anytime soon. However, if we look More...
Will ‘Medicare As We Know It’ Continue Or Will It Change?
There is little doubt that Medicare in its current form has to change. Everyone knows it, but no one seems to be able to agree on how. To understand the dynamics of the situation, and why it is so complex, let’s More...
Dr Tom Price tapped by Donald Trump to lead HHS
President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he will nominate Georgia Rep. Tom Price to head the Department of Health and Human Services. The Cabinet-level pick, which requires Senate confirmation, inserts More...
How to Deal with Medicare Overpayments
As of March 14th, 2016 all healthcare providers and physicians are required by law to report and repay any Medicare overpayments within 60 days of discovering them. Any overpayment that was discovered within 6 years More...
Mendocino County in Dire Need of Dual Diagnosis Residential Treatment Centers
The austerity of mental health disorders and substance addiction The Ukiah Valley Medical Center (UVMC) in Mendocino County treats over 117 people per day for everything from emergency visits to mental health breakdowns. More...
Jonathan Gruber confirms Obamacare is ‘working as designed’ and calls for ‘larger mandate penalty’
On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CNN Newsroom,” MIT Economics Professor and Obamacare “architect” Jonathan Gruber argued that “The law is working as designed. However, it could work better. And I More...
HHS confirms horrible Obamacare news: rising costs of 25%, fewer options as enrollment drops
News from the Obama adminstration’s Department of Health and Human Services on Obamacare is pessimistic news on top of horrible news, mixed with more bad news. Premiums will go up sharply in 2017 and many More...
Obamacare headed to even higher prices, ‘disastrous rollout of the exchanges’ called a ‘policy failure’
The Affordable Care Act is hardly affordable and headed towards more financial woes as the new year closes in. The Daily Signal notes that “the federal subsidy system is so poorly designed that in 2015 half More...
2016 Debate: Obamacare failing as costs rise, Trump says it’s a ‘disaster’ Clinton defends benefits
As Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump faced off in last night’s debate, the topic of Obamacare came front and center. In fact, President Obama’s signature act was described as “not affordable” More...
Bill Clinton to Michigan voters that Obamacare is a ‘crazy system’ ‘doesn’t make any sense’
While campaigning for Hillary Clinton in Michigan on Monday, Former President Bill Clinton targeted President Obama’s health care reform law, Obamacare, calling it a “crazy system” that “doesn’t More...
ADF helps Vermont health care professionals opt out of euthanasia practices, assisted suicides
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys asked a federal court Monday to stop Vermont officials in two state agencies from forcing conscientious health care professionals to help kill their patients while the lawsuit More...
Medical Research May Be Pokey, but It’s Definitely Paramount
The many advancements that have been made in the treatment and cure of diseases in humans all have experimentation at their core. Without centuries of research – from the body snatchers of the 19th century to More...
How Medical Records Improve Medical Practice Efficiency
Doctors need to have two basic skills: Medical competence and the ability to deal with patients. The latter is better known as bedside manner, and it has always been seen as a natural talent that some doctors are More...
TRANSCRIPT: Tim Kaine tells voters to reject Donald Trump’s bigotry, racial discrimination
At a voter registration event in Tallahassee, Florida on August 26, Tim Kaine discussed why it is more important than ever that we reject Donald Trump’s campaign built on prejudice and paranoia. Kaine told the More...
Which Politicians are Tackling America’s Prescription Drug Problem?
Is America hooked on pharmaceuticals? The Senate seems to think so, having passed the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) to increase the availability of the drug Naloxone, which treats opioid overdoses. More...
Benefits of medical transcription services while using EMR
Electronic Medical Record (EMR) is simply the electronic or digital format, of paper charts which have always been used in a doctor’s clinic. New rules and regulations are now forcing all physicians to adopt this More...
How modern hospital design is boosting the nation’s health
You don’t just have to hone in on the healthcare industry to see that the design of buildings has changed significantly over the years. We’re not talking about architectural styles here, but more the More...