“Criminal investigations into the Environmental Protection Agency’s disastrous handling of its Gold King Mine spill are under way. This is a laudable step toward accountability for the agency, which for one year has avoided accountability for conduct that would in all likelihood have resulted in criminal prosecution had the acts been performed by private parties.”
Continue reading: EPA May Finally Be Held Accountable for Mine Spill
“Most scholars and analysts conclude that, particularly when fully accounting for the various government subsidies for individual insurance coverage, the ACA significantly increased individual market premiums.”
Source: Overwhelming Evidence That Obamacare Caused Premiums To Increase Substantially
“The more money doctors receive from drug and medical device companies, the more brand-name drugs they tend to prescribe, a new ProPublica analysis shows…”
“ProPublica has compiled the disclosed payments from pharmaceutical companies to doctors and other health care providers. Pharmaceutical companies have paid out 3.49 billion dollars in disclosed payments: 681,020 to doctors, 81,135 to hospitals, and 21,565 to companies.”
Continue reading: Now There’s Proof: Docs Who Take Company Cash Tend to Prescribe More Brand-Name Drugs
Search for your doctor in their interactive database at: http://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/
“A review of 50 years of evidence concluded that eating unrestricted amounts of fat was healthier than any other type of diet, when it is done in the right way.”
“Scientists last night claimed that the ballooning obesity crisis—which for decades has been blamed on people eating too much fat—may actually be due to diets packed with sugar and food containing refined grains, such as white bread and pasta…”
Continue reading: High-fat diets ARE the best: Mediterranean diet ‘significantly reduces the risk of breast cancer, diabetes and heart disease’
“Recalls of cars with the faulty Japanese airbags affect one in eight vehicles nationwide, a report from Kelley Blue Book found. The recall thus far has affected some 32 million vehicles from dozens of car brands, including major players Toyota, Honda, Nissan, General Motors, Mitsubishi and Ford, the report found. Yet very few people in the U.S. are aware their vehicle could be involved in the recall…”
Continue reading: Recall of dangerous Takata air bags affects 1 in 8 vehicles, report says
“Not only do Medicaid and Medicare provide inadequate care, but they have also set up perverse incentives which further diminish quality of care and increase costs for all patients…”
“So while the US government dithers and then makes the problem worse, here are six ways apps are helping low-income Americans stay healthy…”
Continue reading: Apps Are Doing What Government Can’t to Help Low-Income Americans Stay Healthy
See also: 10 apps increasing health care access for low-income patients
Last week, when a new mother went into labor, she decided to cut some costs and precious time by hailing an Uber ride to the hospital, rather than an ambulance…
Continue reading: Mom in Labor Calls Uber Instead of Ambulance. Why…?
“The rate of rise of healthcare costs, the slope of that rate of rise, is almost exactly equal to the rate of rise of the number of administrators…”
Source: The facts speak for themselves | Surgery Center of Oklahoma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZF_iWETXz0
Episode 1 of 4 in our Truth in Media series on Big Pharma
A Houston company claims to save patients money on their medical procedures by allowing doctors to bid for their business.
Story: Bidding For Your Medical Procedures
“Our mission is to give better quality healthcare at a better price with more choice and more access….Let’s say you need a gallbladder removal. Go online to http://medibid.com/ and you enter the procedure that you need. We will tell you how much is covered under your health plan and then you can create the bid.”
“Only five states saw a decrease in premium cost this year, while 12 states had increases of more than 20% on average. The states with the biggest changes are predominantly in the Midwest, but almost every region got hit with price jumps.”
“A new study has found that the protective shield fluoride forms on teeth is up to 100 times thinner than previously believed. This raises questions about how this renowned cavity-fighter really works…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zo6SnvmMP9k
Continue reading: Fluoride: CDC Now Warns Against Consumption by Infants