Showing posts with label health system. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health system. Show all posts
Sunday, August 14, 2022

Fraud and Telehealth

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 I'm with Doggett on the problem of fraud possibly being enabled by telehealth. I've been bothered by TV ads I see for various devic...
Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Our American Dentistry System

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 I've commented before on the advantages of the Kaiser Permanente system, as opposed to the system of independent doctors, specialists, ...
Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Health System--Dentistry

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 My wife and I use Kaiser for health care.  It works well, testing, drugs, specialties, all under one roof (at least metaphorically because ...
Monday, August 30, 2021

The Last Mile in Health Care

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 I follow Atul Gawande in the New Yorker and his books, particularly his advocacy for checklists (an indispensable tool for bureaucrats).  T...
Monday, July 05, 2021

Collecting Statistics: Problems and Progress

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GovExec had an article on the problems with data collection during the pandemic from the Covid Tracking Project. Above and beyond any indi...
Wednesday, May 13, 2020

We Do Better by Our Animals Than Humans?

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This is a paragraph from a Washington Post article on an OK veterinary lab which got into Covid-19 testing: The Oklahoma Animal Disease Di...
Sunday, March 22, 2020

My Predictions?

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I don't really have any, but I just saw a Politico post following up on various predictions made about Obamacare.  They mostly were wro...
Monday, February 10, 2020

The Marvels of Modern Medicine

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I've some loss of hearing, so have been using hearing aids for about a year.  I don't wear them all the time, mostly when going out ...
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Rising Insurance Rates: Car Not Health

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Via Marginal Revolution a Wired post discusses the increasing costs of car insurance. It's up 30 percent in a decade.  It's interes...
Wednesday, January 08, 2020

Great Advances in Medicine

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Saw the doctor today at Kaiser.  (It'd been a couple years so I was overdue.)  Many changes since my last visit checking in by enteri...
Monday, December 30, 2019

Healthcare and Education Costs

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Both healthcare costs and costs of higher education have soared over the past 20 years, as shown in this tweet. One explanation often off...
Friday, November 01, 2019

Soaking the Rich--What's Triviial, What's Possible

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I had an early response to Megan McArdle this morning--without doing a lot of work to reconstruct: she wrote that soaking billionaires as Se...
Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Dentists and the Healthcare System

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Went to the dentist today.  Not my favorite way to spend the afternoon.  Growing up I think I saw a dentist once or twice--it wasn't a t...
Thursday, July 12, 2018

How Far Ahead Are Democrats Thinking?

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There's lots of comments about the impact of Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court.  There's also Democratic proposals for what they want t...
Thursday, July 13, 2017

I Don't Understand Insurance: Obamacare and Crop Insurance

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From a Politico story on the improving profit picture for insurers in Obamacare markets: Insurers in the Obamacare marketplaces spent 75 p...
Monday, March 27, 2017

Drum's TrumpamaCare Compromise

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I hope my fellow liberals are not so stuck in opposition that they wouldn't be open to a compromise on healthcare similar to that outlin...
Thursday, January 26, 2017

Cataract Followup

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I blogged the other day complimenting Kaiser on its cataract surgery setup.  Very good, but... My mother-in-law had cataract surgeries abo...
Saturday, January 21, 2017

Women's Health in Nineteenth Century

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The Jstor blog has a piece on de facto first ladies.  What's telling is that the list ends in 1915, with Woodrow Wilson's daughter...
Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Habits and Back Pain

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Interesting piece here on what our health dollars are spent on. " The three most expensive diseases in 2013: diabetes ($101 billio...
Saturday, September 24, 2016

Medicare Scams: Braces

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I'm old.  I'm on Medicare. I see ads on Accuweather for knee and back braces covered by Medicare.  I get phone calls offering free b...