Health Care Insurance
September 6, 2010 - 8:45 am
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Conservatives Attack Dead Woman’s Kid and Family Over Healthcare
August 31, 2010 - 1:01 am
Listen at Beck’s comment and then tell me his fans aren’t a cult.The Modern Family: Going Broke Over The Basics
August 29, 2010 - 3:00 pm
http://www.mslaw.edu
The discretionary spending of today’s families has decreased; it is the major monthly expenses that are the issue. In this 2004 presentation of The Massachusetts School of Law’s program, Books of Our Times, Dean Lawrence R. Velvel interviews Elizabeth Warren on her book: The Two-Income Trap – Why Middle Class Mothers And Fathers Are Going Broke. Professor Warren is a Professor of Law at The Harvard Law School.
The Massachusetts School of Law also presents information on important current affairs to the general public in television and radio broadcasts, an intellectual journal, conferences, author appearances, blogs and books. For more information visit mslaw.edu.
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The First Lady Visits Caroline Family Practice
August 29, 2010 - 2:59 pm
First Lady Michelle Obama visits Caroline Family Practice Community Health Center, a community clinic in Virginia. In her remarks, she discusses the importance of primary and preventative care, and reforming our health insurance system so that every person has access to quality, affordable care. July 27, 2009. (Public Domain)
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Doctalker Family Medicine
August 29, 2010 - 2:51 pm
What if you could just call in a prescription refill, rather than having to make an appointment and sit in a doctor’s waiting room? Imagine calling a physician’s office and getting a doctor to pick up the phone. Or how about getting a house call? And what if you could get this at the lowest price imaginable? At Doctalker Family Medicine we are breaking the rules of primary care. This video introduces Dr. Alan Dappen and his medical team, as well as the innovative way that Doctalker delivers affordable, hassle-free health care, anytime, anyway anywhere.
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Health Care Surgical Costs
August 29, 2010 - 2:44 pm
Forbes
Open-Heart Surgery–90% off
1.A patient was in need of complicated heart surgery. His hospital said the cost would be $200,000 and wanted $100,000 up front. The patient’s son, a medical student, knew of the medical tourism industry and arranged for his father to have the operation overseas. The complicated surgery was a success. The cost: $6,700.
How is this possible? Excellent hospitals can be built overseas without the bureaucratic red tape found in the U.S., thereby saving construction time. Construction costs are lower, as are nursing, physician and administrative expenses.
http://members.forbes.com/forbes/2007/0813/021.html
$400 per day, per patient (room and board covers mortgage, util and ma)
$25 per day, per patient, per nurse (8 patients per nurse)
$200 per hour, per surgeon (5 hours avg heart surgery, 4 surgeons)
cardiovascular surgeon (1)
Surgeon – Heart Transplant” in the United States is $405,725.
assisting surgeons (2)
about half of the surgeon $200,000
cardiovascular anesthesiologist (1)
$250,000
perfusion technologist, who runs the heart-lung machine (1)
$105,000
cardiovascular nurses (2)
$65,000
$100 per hour testing (4 hours per day)
Common Blood Tests Before Surgery
* CBC: The Complete Blood Count
* Chem 7: The Blood Chemistry Panel
* Liver Function Panel (Liver Function Tests, LFTs)
* PT/PTT/INR (Coagulation Study)
* Arterial Blood Gas (ABG)
Non-Invasive Testing Before Surgery
* Magnetic Resonance Imagining (MRI)
* Computed Tomography (CT Scan, Cat Scan) and CT Scan Video
* X-ray and X-ray Video
* Ultrasound
Testing Your Heart Before Surgery
* Electrocardiogram (EKG)
* Cardiac Stress Test
* Angiogram
* Echocardiogram
Lease (Mercedes-Benz $54,650 $769 per month)
heart-lung machine
pharmaceutical
10% of health care.
5 days, avg hospital stay for heart surgery
3-5 open heart cases per week per surgeon
COST PER PATIENT
$2,000 room and board
$500 administration
$500 medical equipment lease costs
$2,000 tests
$750 nurse care (2 nurses per patient, 24 hour care)
$4,000 5 hours, 4 surgeons
$1,050 pharmaceutical
TOTAL $10,800
TOTAL PLUS 20% FOR UNINSURED $12,960 (20% of all care)
TOTAL PLUS 6.2% FOR UNINSURED $11,470 (31% of care is hospital)
PERCENTAGE OF UNINSURED & UNABLE TO PAY
INDUSTRY TOTALS FOR HEART SURGARY ALONE
Total open-heart procedures 694,000
US Population 304,059,724 – Jul 2008
Percent of surgeries less then 1% (2/10 of 1% .002)
$2,000 room and board (1.3 billion per year)
$500 administration (347 million per year)
$1,050 pharmaceutical (728 million per year)
$500 medical equipment lease costs (347 million per year)
$2,000 tests (1.3 billion per year)
$750 nurse care (520 million in nurse care per year)
$4,000 5 hours (2.7 billion in surgeon care per year)
The avg cost for a family health insurance policy over $10,000 per year
The avg cost for single payer health insurance policy over $4,900 per year.
Avg monthly cost per single payer over $390
Avg monthly cost for avg heart surgery payed over 3 years at 10% interest $348
LESS THEN 1% of individuals will need heart surgery
SOURCES
1.http://members.forbes.com/forbes/2007/0813/021.html
2.http://ezinearticles.com/?Heart-Surgery-Costs—Why-You-Should-Consider-India&id=102032
3.http://yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com/open-heart-surgery.html
4.http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/2005-09-14-family-health-policy_x.htm
5.http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4674
6.http://news.opb.org/article/3527-er-visits-uninsured-increasing-number-and-cost/
7.http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/FASTATS/ervisits.htm
8.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_the_United_States
9.http://www.heart-valve-surgery.com/heart-surgeon-salary.php
10.http://www.clarian.org/portal/Clarian/clarian-arnett?ContentID=/hospitals-locations/clarian-arnett/news-media/news-announcements/20090708_100th-open-heart-surgery.xml
11.http://www.texasheart.org/HIC/Topics/Proced/index.cfm
12.https://www.perfusion.com/cgi-bin/ProductCart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=37
13.http://www.apep.uci.edu/der/buildingintegration/2/BuildingTemplates/Hospital.aspx
14.http://surgery.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=surgery&cdn=health&tm=47&f=20&su=p284.9.336.ip_p736.8.336.ip_&tt=2&bt=1&bts=0&zu=http%3A//www.stanfordhospital.com/clinicsmedServices/COE/surgicalServices/generalSurgery/patientEducation/tests
15.http://www.nchc.org/facts/cost.shtml
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The perfect gift! For someone you hate …..
August 29, 2010 - 2:37 pm
Conflict in your relationships? We can help …IBJ Health Care Panel: The Role of For-Profit Insurance Companies
August 29, 2010 - 2:28 pm
America is the only country that lets insurance companies operate of for-profit businesses. What value does that bring to the health system? Panelists at the Indianapolis Business Journal’s Power Breakfast on health care and insurance (Sept. 25) weigh the pros and cons. Panelists include Dr. Mercy Obeime, a family physician and medical director of the St. Francis Neighborhood Health Center at Garfield Park; Dan Krajnovich, Indiana CEO of the Minnesota-based health insurer UnitedHealthcare; Kyle Defur, CEO of St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital; Dan Evans, CEO of the Clarian Health hospital system; and Dr. Craig Brater, dean of the Indiana University School of Medicine.
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Jon Corzine: Family Leave Insurance
August 29, 2010 - 2:26 pm
Governor Jon Corzine and Senator Loretta Weinberg hold a roundtable discussion about New Jersey Family Leave Insurance program with insurance applicants in Rochelle Park, N.J. on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009. New Jersey’s Family Leave Insurance Program is the second in the nation to be implemented and provides workers up to six weeks of benefits.
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