A health care blogger (Patient Centered Healthcare) made the following observation about health and poverty:
Let’s take a pessimistic view of the situation for someone living in poverty:
Fast food is probably cheaper than many health foods.
The working poor likely have less time to exercise and no money to belong to a gym.
The working [...]
Here’s how I figure. Pretty much every drug ad tells prospective users to “talk with their doctor” before taking the medication. That’s going to require an office visit, and that’s $75 bucks on the low side. All the ads say you should take a “simple blood test” to check for liver problems. Well, that’s another [...]
In a study conducted by Hewitt & Associates it’s reported that 30 percent of employees do not go to the doctor due to the cost of care. You know, I don’t think this is necessarily a bad thing. If you consider that an employee’s chances of dying due to a medical error are higher than [...]
Remember “7th Heaven”, and “Married With Children”?
I mention these two shows because of the difference between the parents and how they dealt with the kids. The 7th Heaven parents were clearly devoted to the health and welfare of the kids. Kelly and Bud Bundy were—well—pretty much on their own!
So, here’s the point. In an [...]
I went to a family gathering this past weekend and talked awhile with a cousin I don’t often see. She told me about a male friend of hers, 47, who just was put on Plavix by his doctor. The doctor said he was healthy with no signs of problems, but wanted to put him on [...]
Does that mean we’re not non-fat? But seriously, the above headline comes from Deloitte who claims to have “discovered” that health consumers do not think and behave the same, and now claims knowledge of “the six segments” that define health care thinking for the whole country based on a sample of 3,000. That’s great. But, [...]
This post is in response to World Health Care Blog, for 11/24/07 by Scott MacStravic:
Hospitals have another obstacle, which is learning to persuade and motivate people who have not relinquished power to them. When a “patient” comes into to a hospital for treatment of some disease the power in the relationship is clearly understood–the hospital [...]
I think it is silly to judge the impact of risk conditions or disease states on productivity 1) without understanding the interactive impacts of different combinations of them, and 2) without considering the NATURE OF THE PERSON who has them. An employee with hypertension and depression might say, “I’m not feeling good today so I’m [...]
About 16% of the adult population strongly disagree that they “only see physicians for serious illness or injuries.” This means these people go for minor ailments or concerns. This 16% generate $500 to $1,500 more in paid claims per person per year than those who agree with the statement. That’s somewhere in the neighborhood of [...]
An article in last Monday’s Wall Street Journal (Apr 28th) talked about a women with leukemia who went to M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX for treatment. The center didn’t like the women’s limited insurance and wouldn’t treat her unless she came up with $105,000 cash. Recently, lots of uninsured patients have been getting [...]
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