Affordable Health Care
Saving Money on Dental Care
Dr. Greg contends to all health care costs are negotiable. That applies to dental care. Check out these tips from “How to Manage Dental Costs, With or Without Insurance” in the New York Times. In fact,the article uses some of Dr. Greg’ s own tips:
Prevention
Full disclosure about costs upfront
Spread out the costs over time (different [...]
Quote of the Week (Maybe the Month)
“It’s like debating the difference between
aspirin and Tylenol for a cancer patient.”
– Dr. David Himmelstein, when asked about the health care reform bills in Congress
Dr. Himmelstein is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School who he helped write major studies finding that medical bills were a leading contributor to personal bankruptcies in the [...]
More Voices of Reason
David Brooks had a great column in the New York Times last week; he’s something of a pragmatic conservative who is actually lobbying for reform and for President Obama to take a strong stand! He references a report from the Brookings Institute, “Bending the Curve: Effective Steps to Address Long-Term Health Care Spending Growth,” [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )How to Cut Your Doctor’s Bill
This article from Forbes is straight out of Reality Check! Read “How to Cut Your Doctor Bill” here.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Hidden Costs of Health Care
The New York Times this morning points out the hidden costs of health care in an article called “Challenge to Health Bill: Selling Reform.” Among the highlights:
“Our health care system is engineered, deliberately or not, to resist change. The people who pay for it — you and I — often don’t realize that they’re paying [...]
Another’s Doctor’s View
A must-read: This piece by Dr. Abraham Verghese in the Wall Street Journal: “The Myth of Prevention.” Inspired by Sir Luke Fildes’s 1891 painting, The Doctor (right).
More thoughts on this to follow!
The Prostate Dilemma
Even the medical community can’t seem to agree about prostate screenings. In March, after a U.S. study suggested that screening for prostate cancer does not reduce death from the disease, a bigger European study suggested that screening can lower the death rate as much as 20 percent. (Both studies were reported in the New England [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Bargains in Health Care
Many of my patients are as concerned with costs as with the state of their health. Because of that, I work with them to make sure health care is both affordable and comprehensive. By far, the cheapest form of health care is prevention. So in my practice, I focus on intercepting disease or health issues [...]
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