The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a June 2012 report with findings that almost a quarter of the approximately 7 million children who were uninsured in January 2009 will not be eligible for Medicaid, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), or the new premium tax credit under the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care … Continue reading
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Sugar, Fake Sugar, Sugar That Will Give You Cancer
Pink, blue, yellow, green, white: what is your sweetener of choice? I just avoid adding it to my daily morning coffee completely. I see the real stuff as unnecessary calories in my day and the others as chemical substances that may give me cancer. The association of artificial sweeteners with cancer started in the 1970’s … Continue reading
Less Is Often More
In the blame game of who is responsible for our broken healthcare system, society often sees the government and insurance companies as the institutions responsible for creating fragmentation and driving up health care costs. While they certainly are part of the equation, we can also point the finger at a number of parties. Hospitals, the … Continue reading
The Model for New Healthcare Reform?
The United States has the highest health care expenditure per capita ($7,960 in 2009) across all other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. Despite this, the US is ranked twenty-third out of the thirty countries measured in the OECD for mean life expectancy. It is no small secret that the costs of medical … Continue reading
