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Posts Tagged ‘Health Care Programs’
Re-Defining Policy in Tucson to Address the Cost of Obesity
Re-defining policy in Tucson to address the cost of obesity
Filed under: good health insurance
Medical costs of obesity-related diseases alone amount to $ 113 billion per year, which we all pay for in increased health insurance premiums and publicly funded health care programs. It makes good business sense to curb the obesity epidemic. … Read more on Inside Tucson Business
Finally, Some Good News About Health Insurance
Filed under: good health insurance
One of the most nettlesome benefits that employers offer-health insurance-is becoming just a bit less irritating. Preliminary results from a study by Mercer indicate that: The average cost of health coverage for employers will rise 5.4% in 2012. … Read more on BNET (blog)
Uninsured situation worsens in South Florida
Filed under: good health insurance
"The health plans are responding by more limited benefit products." One such product was purchased by Kendall resident Nicholas Jacobellis. "It was the kind of insurance that was good unless you had to use it," he said. His newborn twins ended up in … Read more on Sun-Sentinel
Would a National Health Care System in the US Eliminate Most Fraud (See Details)?
Right now, there is a lot of fraud for billing insurance companies, medicaid, and medicare for procedures that were not done or were not needed. Insurance companies spend 20-30% of their revenue making sure the procedures ordered are valid.
If all medical professionals were on a fair plan of compensation instead of making a profit from procedures that they billed the incentive to commit fraud or order unnecessary procedures would be totally eliminated, wouldn’t it?
Then, evaluate them and compensate them on whether they are making their patients healthier or not.
Doesn’t this make sense?
Vastright, I used medicaid and medicare in my example. The problem is in the way people are compensated. We use private doctors to run a government funded program and they abuse it. If they were salaried government workers they would have no what of profiting from cheating.
Medicaid and medicare are the most efficient health care programs we have. But they are still subject to abuse for the reasons I have given.