Episode 01: How Your Health Plan Works – Health Care Video Training Series designed to be a little more cutting edge for Construction Workers. Health Insurance Industry
Duration : 0:4:38
Antony Jacob interview on NDTV on how to increase number of insured people in India…????
Antony Jacob, CEO—Apollo Munich, announced that there is 75% of people paying out medical treatment expenses from their pockets, which is perhaps the maximum in the world. As per him, every health insurance company faces the same issue that people in India are unaware of health insurance and the foremost reason is that health insurance is a unprofitable sector and the number of insured people are those who have either faced urgent needs of health insurance themselves or their family member. So, these are the individuals who are purchasing health insurance but it has resulted in high frequency and high cost. Thus, it is becoming unprofitable for health insurance.
As per Antony Jacob, the number of insured people should be a mix of both, healthy and unhealthy people to make it bigger and broader. Thus, there is much improvement to be made in this field.
Apollo Munich has entered into health insurance as a pure health insurance company and he believes that all associated bodies should play an active role in spreading awareness. Regulation should invite more players to focus on this sector, so that they can work morning and evening to encourage people to buy health insurance. It will help to design products, as per the needs of customers, thus contributing towards insurance sector. So, there is a significant role for the regulator to play in terms of formulating rules and regulation, entries and barriers for health insurance. It is to ensure that right players enter the market. Similarly, there is a role for Government to play to spread health awareness and healthcare costs so that people understand that financing through insurance is absolutely a necessity.
Mr. Antony Jacob further said that Apollo Munich has a big role to play in terms of adverting, product innovation and service offerings. Likewise, a big role is to be played by health care providers in terms of standardization of rates and processes. It is the matter of increasing 150 million, pupation to 400 million. There are many government programmes, such as RSBY and they are doing a great job. Private sector has encouraged new entries like Apollo Munich as standalone licensed player.
Antony Jacob, CEO, Apollo Munich Health Insurance Company Ltd.
Duration : 0:2:54
Marches toward socialism, death panels and health care rationing, oh my! If you’ve been watching the news these days you know that few people seem interested in having a serious debate about our health care industry in America. It would be funny to watch if it weren’t for the fact that 45 million Americans don’t have insurance and the 200 million who do are finding it more difficult to afford. It would be hilarious if we weren’t beholden to the Robber Barons of health insurance monopolies and their shills on Capitol Hill. Are you sick and tired of this mockery that we call a debate? Watch this video and find out what you can do to make sure we get the comprehensive health care reform we need!
Duration : 0:9:11
http://www.weforum.org 30.01.2010
The Obama Administration is relying on the US Congress to deliver an ambitious agenda focusing on financial regulation, healthcare, energy and employment.
What are the global implications of implementing the 2010 legislative agenda?
Discussion Leaders
Brian Baird, Congressman from Washington (Democrat), 3rd District, USA
Susan M. Collins, Senator from Maine (Republican), USA
Barney Frank, Congressman from Massachusetts (Democrat), 4th District; Chairman, Financial Services Committee, USA
Lindsey O. Graham, Senator from South Carolina (Republican), USA
Edward J. Markey, Congressman from Massachusetts (Democrat), 7th District, Chairman, Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, USA
Moderated by
Michael Oreskes, Senior Managing Editor, Associated Press (AP), USA
Duration : 0:59:54
Why we don’t need economic illiterates trivializing the dangers of socialized medicine and spouting abject nonsense on YouTube.
This is a rebuttal to the video Why We Need Government-Run Universal Socialized Health Insurance.
Duration : 0:8:34
http://www.weforum.org 30.01.2010
No single industry is immune to the global, cyclical and structural changes reshaping the world economy.
Chairs of the World Economic Forum Governors Meetings each share their industry’s evaluation of the most important challenges and opportunities in 2010.
Jon Fredrik Baksaas, President and Chief Executive Officer, Telenor, Norway; Co-Chair of the Governors Meeting for Telecommunications 2010
Paul Bulcke, Chief Executive Officer, Nestlé, Switzerland; Co-Chair of the Governors Meeting for Consumer Industries 2010
James Hogan, Chief Executive Officer, Etihad Airways, United Arab Emirates; Chair of the Governors Meeting for Aviation, Travel & Tourism 2010; Global Agenda Council on Emerging Multinationals
Lars Rebien Sorensen, President and Chief Executive Officer, Novo Nordisk, Denmark; Chair of the Governors Meeting for Healthcare 2010
Patricia A. Woertz, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), USA; Co-Chair of the Governors Meeting for Consumer Industries 2010; Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2010
Moderated by
Jean-Pierre Rosso, Chairman, Centre for Global Industries, World Economic Forum USA
Duration : 1:0:41
May 31, 1994 http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FChristopher-Hitchens%2Fe%2FB000APSKR0%3Fqid%3D1278211708%26sr%3D1-2-ent&tag=doc06-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325
Watch the full program: http://thefilmarchived.blogspot.com/2010/08/christopher-hitchens-and-peter-hitchens_01.html
Comparison of the health care systems in Canada and the United States are often made by government, public health and public policy analysts. The two countries had similar health care systems before Canada reformed its system in the 1960s and 1970s. The United States spends much more money on health care than Canada, on both a per-capita basis and as a percentage of GDP. In 2006, per-capita spending for health care in Canada was US$3,678; in the U.S., US$6,714. The U.S. spent 15.3% of GDP on health care in that year; Canada spent 10.0%. In 2006, 70% of health care spending in Canada was financed by government, versus 46% in the United States. Total government spending per capita in the U.S. on health care was 23% higher than Canadian government spending, and U.S. government expenditure on health care was just under 83% of total Canadian spending (public and private).
Studies have come to different conclusions about the result of this disparity in spending. A 2007 review of all studies comparing health outcomes in Canada and the US in a Canadian peer-reviewed medical journal found that “health outcomes may be superior in patients cared for in Canada versus the United States, but differences are not consistent.” Life expectancy is longer in Canada, and its infant mortality rate is lower than that of the U.S., but there is debate about the underlying causes of these differences. One commonly-cited comparison, the 2000 World Health Organization’s ratings of “overall health service performance”, which used a “composite measure of achievement in the level of health, the distribution of health, the level of responsiveness and fairness of financial contribution”, ranked Canada 30th and the U.S. 37th among 191 member nations. This study rated the US “responsiveness”, or quality of service for individuals receiving treatment, as 1st, compared with 7th for Canada. However, the average life expectancy for Canadians was 80.34 years compared with 78.6 years for residents of the U.S.
The WHO’s study methods were criticized by some analyses. Some argue that Canada has had higher mortality rates for some conditions, such as heart disease, owing to the use of particular medications. Although there is a measure of consensus that life-expectancy and infant mortality mark the most reliable ways to compare nation-wide health care, a recent report by the Congressional Research Service carefully summarizes some recent data and notes the “difficult research issues” facing international comparisons.
The health care system in Canada is funded by a mix of public (70%) and private (30%) funding, with most services delivered by private (both for-profit and not-for-profit) providers.
Through all entities in its public-private system, the U.S. spends more per capita than any other nation in the world, but is the only wealthy industrialized country in the world that lacks some form of universal health care. In March of 2010, the US Congress passed regulatory reform of the American health insurance system. However since this legislation is not fundamental health care reform, it is unclear what its effect will be and as the new legislation is implemented in stages, with the last provision in effect in 2018, it will be some years before any empirical evaluation of the full effects on the comparison could be determined.
Health care costs in both countries are rising faster than inflation. As both countries consider changes to their systems, there is debate over whether resources should be added to the public or private sector. Although Canadians and Americans have each looked to the other for ways to improve their respective health care systems, there exists a substantial amount of conflicting information regarding the relative merits of the two systems. In Canada, the United States is used as a model and as a warning against increasing private sector involvement in financing health care. In the U.S., meanwhile, Canada’s mostly monopsonistic health system is seen by different sides of the ideological spectrum as either a model to be followed or avoided.
Duration : 0:10:3
The motion: “Universal health coverage should be the federal government’s responsibility”
Moderator: John Donvan
Speaking for the motion: Art Kellermann, Paul Krugman and Michael Rachlis
Speaking against the motion: Michael F. Cannon, Sally C. Pipes and John Stossel
Duration : 0:5:56
DailyCaseReport.com discusses Burks v. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan decided by the Cal Ct. of Appeal, 3rd Dist., holding that arbitration clause in Kaiser Foundation Health Plan’s enrollment form was unenforceable because it was not prominently displayed, in violation of California Health and Safety Code section 1363.1(b).
Duration : 0:3:25
In this edition of the Weekly Health Insurance News Roundup, we take a look at Google and Microsoft partnering with major health insurance providers, the growing numbers of underinsured, and the reforms supported by Aetna’s CEO. Full articles can be found at http://www.online-health-insurance.com.
Duration : 0:3:27