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Savings (on medical bills)until Christmas and beyond
Black Friday and Cyber Monday have passed. Many have taken advantage of the great deals that retailers offer this holiday season. No doubt there will be other deals in the last remaining weeks of the … more →
How to Save on your Medical Bills
Cameron's Health Budget Gamble
The Futility Monster wrote 15 hours ago: Insert generic hospital related image here. Though I'm pretty sure this one isn't British... … more →
Savings (on medical bills)until Christmas and beyond
medicalbill wrote 3 days ago: Black Friday and Cyber Monday have passed. Many have taken advantage of the great deals that retaile … more →
Healthcare funding
markd73 wrote 2 weeks ago: I just finished reading a good article on the future direction of healthcare services funding in Alb … more →
The White House Blows $98 Billion Dollars
geogee wrote 2 weeks ago: A report released recently by the White House reveals the federal government made $98 billion in im … more →
A glimpse into what government run healthcare will look like
medicalbill wrote 3 weeks ago: The town I live in is running a program offering to vaccinate school aged children for the flu as we … more →
Idea #247 for October 23rd, 2009: Erasing Germs or Rethinking One-Use Markers in Hospitals
health365 wrote 1 month ago: Occasionally a piece of news comes up that turns some aspect of conventional medical thinking on its … more →
Abuse of Resources - Its Everyone's Responsibility
drnic wrote 2 months ago: I spent the last weekend up to my neck in organizing a local soccer tournament with 280 teams, hundr … more →
Haggling with your Doctor
medicalbill wrote 3 months ago: Forbes Magazine ran an article recently titled Cut your Doctor Bill. The article explains that with … more →
The sky is falling the sky is falling...
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markd73 wrote 3 months ago: Everything old is new again…unfortunately. Provincial budgets across Canada are starting to be … more →
When not knowing can cost you money
medicalbill wrote 4 months ago: Yesterday Insurance Negotiating Service, which negotiates out of network medical claims for insuranc … more →
Dems Start To Push Back Hard To Prevent A 'Waterloo'
Loki Whitewood wrote 4 months ago: Here we go… the Obameister is now in panic mode. Carefully note his comment below (end of thi … more →
How do these numbers add up to savings?
medicalbill wrote 5 months ago: I recently came across this story that says that hospitals have agreed to give up $155 billion in fu … more →
Long-term impact on the eHealth industry
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markd73 wrote 5 months ago: It appears the media coverage of the eHealth Ontario scandal has peaked…for now. There will no … more →
Health Savings Accounts and Health Reform
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medicalbill wrote 6 months ago: A recent study by OptumHealth concludes that 78% of HSA accountholders believe that HSA’s shou … more →
Healthcare Historical Solutions
drnic wrote 6 months ago: Unfortunately history does not bode well for our ability to solve the current healthcare crisis and … more →
Is Obama Naive About the For-Profit Health Industry's Commitment to Real Reform?
rogerhollander wrote 6 months ago: Published on Monday, May 11, 2009 by Huffington Post by M.S. Bellows, Jr. Optimism is a virtue; it l … more →
Lowering Healthcare Costs: Supply and Demand
praveenghanta wrote 8 months ago: Most discussions around healthcare these days focus on covering all Americans, and on lowering healt … more →
We need to reform our attitudes before we can reform healthcare
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medicalbill wrote 8 months ago: Deloitte recently published a 2009 Survey of Health Care Consumers. Some of the findings are not sur … more →
Common errors in medical bills
medicalbill wrote 8 months ago: No matter how technologically advanced medicine becomes, billing remains mostly a data entry job don … more →
