“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/
“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
“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
“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.”
“Americans abroad are only exempt if they are outside the U.S. for 330 days per year or if they become residents of US territories, like Puerto Rico.”
