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Karen Fairbank has cataracts and is scheduled for surgery in March at UCLA's Jules Stein Eye Institute. With her high-deductible Blue Shield of California policy, she was facing about $3,000 in out-of-pocket expenses.
But with a contract dispute between Blue Shield and UCLA showing no sign of resolution, Fairbank, 59, of Pacific Palisades found herself looking at more than $12,000 in costs because the insurer said it wouldn't cover the operation.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus-20120127,0,4471450,print.column
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus-20120127,0,4471450,print.column
Ritalin Gone Wrong
By L. ALAN SROUFE
THREE million children in this country take drugs for problems in focusing. Toward the end of last year, many of their parents were deeply alarmed because there was a shortage of drugs like Ritalin and Adderall that they considered absolutely essential to their children’s functioning.
But are these drugs really helping children? Should we really keep expanding the number of prescriptions filled?
Shocking injustice in health care
By Thomas Clairmont, M.D.
Letters, Portsmouth (N.H.) Herald, Jan. 27, 2012
Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day should lead us to review some of what this great man said. Let's review three of his quotes:
"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane." With 65,000 Maine citizens about to be ejected from their Medicaid insurance, and 3,500 New Hampshire citizens with Medicaid eliminated from practices at Lakes Region Hospital, the time is long past to solve injustice in health care. You wouldn't know it from the recent primary, where the only "plan" to help you with health care was to repeal President Obama's Affordable Care Act and replace it with ... nothing.
"The time is always right to do the right thing."
This means that about one in five Massachusetts residents are being treated by doctors working under these new cost-conscious arrangements, a Globe survey of insurers found - even before state lawmakers begin debating legislation to address soaring health insurance premiums by, in part, encouraging such plans.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/01/30/cost-controlled-health-coverage-gaining-ground-mass/awP5QMTXU5kzBULRMIYKiM/story.html
Letters, Portsmouth (N.H.) Herald, Jan. 27, 2012
Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day should lead us to review some of what this great man said. Let's review three of his quotes:
"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane." With 65,000 Maine citizens about to be ejected from their Medicaid insurance, and 3,500 New Hampshire citizens with Medicaid eliminated from practices at Lakes Region Hospital, the time is long past to solve injustice in health care. You wouldn't know it from the recent primary, where the only "plan" to help you with health care was to repeal President Obama's Affordable Care Act and replace it with ... nothing.
"The time is always right to do the right thing."
Cost-controlled health coverage gaining ground
In just three years, a new way of paying for medical care has spread rapidly across Massachusetts, and now more than 1.2 million people are covered by plans that put providers on a budget in an effort to restrain health spending.This means that about one in five Massachusetts residents are being treated by doctors working under these new cost-conscious arrangements, a Globe survey of insurers found - even before state lawmakers begin debating legislation to address soaring health insurance premiums by, in part, encouraging such plans.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/01/30/cost-controlled-health-coverage-gaining-ground-mass/awP5QMTXU5kzBULRMIYKiM/story.html
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