Archive for the ‘Health Insurance’ Category

Five Things We Must Do To Improve the U.S. Healthcare System

September 10, 2020 | Healthcare

Etienne Deffarges: 5 Things We Must Do To Improve the US Healthcare System | by Dr. William Seeds | Authority Magazine | August 25, 2020  “Bring universal healthcare to all Americans! Being the only country in the developed world that does not have universal healthcare represents one of the worst injustices of the modern world …

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A Very Relevant Question in Times of Pandemic: Can Medicare for All Work?

April 30, 2020 | Medicare for All

Can Medicare for All Work? With U.S. voters consistently putting healthcare at the very top of their concerns, it is no surprise that Medicare for All (MFA) has garnered a lot of attention during the very competitive 2020 Democratic presidential primary. In terms of definition, let’s keep it simple and assume that MFA means a …

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Effective Strategies to Reduce Costs and Utilization in US Healthcare

March 24, 2020 | Economy

How to Reduce US Healthcare Costs  (Published March 18, 2020) Our healthcare costs keep increasing much faster than inflation, year after year. According to figures released in December 2019 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the annual growth rate of healthcare spending was 4.6% in 2018, vs. 3.9% in 2017, 4.8% …

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The Future of Healthcare: Interview Published in Authority Magazine on June 5, 2019

June 14, 2019 | Healthcare

The Future of Healthcare: “We must free medicare to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies” with Etienne Deffarges, serial healthcare entrepreneur Christina D. Warner Jun 5 Cut the cost of drugs. We need to stop protecting our pharmaceutical companies by freeing their largest purchaser, Medicare, to negotiate with them, and allowing lower-cost imports from reputable countries. U.S. Drug …

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Ending Surprise Medical Bills, and Removing a Stain on U.S. Healthcare

May 21, 2019 | Surprise medical billing

How Will Legislation Ending Surprise Medical Bills Affect U.S. Healthcare Costs?    Erasing a stain on our medical system, and reducing costs as well—by how much?   On Thursday May 9, I was watching one of the business TV channels to learn about the status of our trade war with China, and the anchor announced …

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