The Institute of Medicine Report
September 10, 2012 in Uncategorized
The non-partisan Institute of Medicine released a report last week that healthcare is broken in the U.S. — to the tune of wasting $750B a year. Part of that solution [...]
Is Ryan’s Medicare Reform Possible Without Market Principles?
September 3, 2012 in Broken Healthcare System
[I'd like to extend my thanks to Dr. David Wong and the staff of Snaphealth for letting me guestblog on this site.] In case you’ve been under a rock [...]
Colorado Attempts To Fix Our Broken Healthcare System
August 29, 2012 in Broken Healthcare System
Unemployed, under-employed & uninsured: addressing the health care crisis BY: KELLY WIEDEMER - Examiner.com Americans across the country repeatedly say they tired of the political divides – particularly with respect to the [...]
‘Real Life’ Healthcare Scenarios
August 29, 2012 in Broken Healthcare System
Three Stories About The Healthcare System courtesy of Jeff Story #1: Thanks to the Affordable Health Care Act, an attractive young woman — let’s call her Tara* — returns to her father’s [...]
The Affordable Care Act, Plus Tax
August 29, 2012 in The Affordable Care Act
Graphic courtesy of The Tree of Mamre Whether you’re Republican or Democrat, we all have one common goal — to make healthcare accessible and affordable to all Americans. When [...]
Solving Two Broken Healthcare Systems With One Solution
August 29, 2012 in Broken Healthcare System
A Tale of Two Systems By DAVID DRANOVE It was the worst of systems. It was the worst of systems. For decades, policy analysts have debated how we to strike a proper [...]
SnapHealth opens online health care marketplace
August 29, 2012 in SnapHealth News & Press
(Houston Business Journal) – Working in Houston’s crowded emergency rooms, Dr. David Wong and Dr. Chris Langan often found their patients did not have health insurance. However, these people were not indigent — they [...]
Some doctors offering a ‘know before you buy’ alternative
August 29, 2012 in SnapHealth News & Press
HOUSTON (FOX 26) – A new report from the congressional budget office finds the Affordable Care Act will still leave 30 million Americans without health insurance. If you’ve never looked at a [...]
Fitness In Middle Age Associated With Less Chronic Disease
August 28, 2012 in Uncategorized
via FoxNews Fit 50-year-olds are less likely to get chronic diseases as they age than are couch potatoes, according to a new U.S. study. It may seem like a no-brainer, [...]
US FDA approves Gilead HIV-1 infection tablet
August 28, 2012 in Uncategorized
via PBR Gilead Sciences has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for Stribild (elvitegravir 150 mg/cobicistat 150 mg/emtricitabine 200 mg/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 300 mg). Stribild is a complete [...]
