Health Insurance

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/03/The_Human_Side_of_Medicine

White House health care policy advisor Ezekiel Emanuel argues that technological advancements in health care are ineffectual without “face-to-face, people-to-people, more human” interactions. He says improvement in doctor-patient relationships are needed to improve health care and drive down costs.

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White House Health Care policy adviser and NIH scientist Ezekiel Emanuel discusses high touch medicine with Royal Philips Electronics CEO Gerard Kleisterlee, and Pathfinders founder and director Tina Staley as part of the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival. – Aspen Institute

Ezekiel Emanuel earned his PhD and MD degrees from Harvard University, where his doctoral dissertation received the Toppan Award for the finest political science dissertation of the year. After earning his MD PhD, he was a Fellow in the Program in Ethics and the Professions at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

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U.S. Senator Mark Udall joined U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, D-CO, and eight other Democratic freshman Senators on the Senate floor to give a series of speeches urging their colleagues to act on health insurance reform. Delivering a bloc of speeches on the Senate floor is an unusual move, but the freshman Senators wanted to show that they are united in their call to action and make their position clear the status quo is not sustainable.

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Senators Tom Coburn, M.D., and John Barrasso, M.D., talk about a step-by-step approach to work with President to lower health care costs. The Senators discuss health savings accounts, allowing the purchase of health insurance across state lines, and wellness programs.

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STUNNING VIDEO UNEARTHED: Obama 07 Revelation: Health Care Reform Requires Tax Hikes — Savings Just a Theory Breitbart TV and Naked Emperor News

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Milton Friedman discusses the dynamics responsible for rising costs in health care. http://www.LibertyPen.com

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Review costs for surgery, insurance, anesthesia, deductables, out-of-pocket expensives. BCBS of Michigan PPO for Verticle Sleeve Gastrectomy.

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So, now that United Health (NYSE:UNH) CEO Dr. William McGuire gets $1.6 BILLION dollars worth of options (NOT including salary), I guess we all have an idea of where all our rising health insurance premiums have been going, and I don’t think it’s in rising healthcare costs.

Links/Transcript/Notes: http://www.momoneytv.com/vlog/moMONEY/20060502.html

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PoliticsTV’s September 21, 2007 interview with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV).
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From a patient’s point of view, the ideal health insurance policy would offer unlimited access to medical services at no charge. Unfortunately, it is not feasible to offer this to everyone. The key to sustainable health care reform is restraining the use of services that have high costs and low benefits. Cato Institute Adjunct Scholar Arnold Kling, author of Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care, examines the challenges facing health reformers and the feasibility of alternative proposals.

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