Beating the Odds
What are your odds of having high blood pressure? It is a simple question and all you have to do is ask your physician, correct? As famed college football announcer Lee Corso likes to say, “Not so fast, my friend.”
The answer to your question may...
Healthcare's Final Battle: The Empire versus The Rebel Alliance
We may finally have reached a tipping point to begin restoring sanity to our healthcare system:
Amazon, Warren Buffett and JPMorgan Chase are forming a new company to address the health care costs of their employees, sending shares of health care...
Propaganda Shouts, Truth Whispers
Theranos was a healthcare startup commanding a $9 billion valuation before enquiring minds discovered its technology to perform lab tests from finger pricks instead of test tubes didn't actually work.
Today's Wall Street Journal introduces the latest...
If Not Now, When?
It's that time of year again – the annual KFF Employer Health Benefits Survey reports that average premiums for employer-sponsored health plans increased to $18,764 for families and $6,690 for individuals:
Waiting for a Raise
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Rising healthcare costs need to be understood as the most important financial issue affecting the middle class. This slow, inexorable squeeze and subsequent pressure on jobs and income must be released. The St. Louis Fed helpfully illustrates the volcanic...
The Solution to Poor Health
There's an expensive belief that the solution to poor health is more health care. Ironically, well-researched studies and the CDC argue against this belief – as costs and utilization of healthcare services have risen, so too has the prevalence of chronic disease.
Our health care system does an excellent job treating acute illness. However, our record reversing or curing chronic disease is much less impressive.