- “It would be great to squeeze the industry to lower prices here - and without compensating by raising them elsewhere.”
Posted on Will Drug and Insurance Companies Be Dethroned? November 24, 2009 8:01 PM - “Drugs are cheaper in Canada because of government caps on drug expenditures. The drug companies compensate by charging more here.”
Posted on Will Drug and Insurance Companies Be Dethroned? November 24, 2009 5:26 PM - “Merrill - The profits made by hospitals, physicians, and laboratories for each individual service performed are not exorbitant on average,”
Posted on Will Drug and Insurance Companies Be Dethroned? November 24, 2009 5:20 PM - “Excellent post and discussion. To artappraiser - As you know, I've participated in Maggie Mahar's healthbeat blog, with admiration for”
Posted on Send out for more miracles November 24, 2009 4:52 PM - “An example of your point, Merrill, is Medicare, where the private insurers are relegated to a very subsidiary role, and”
Posted on Will Drug and Insurance Companies Be Dethroned? November 24, 2009 2:23 PM - “The dramatic vote in the U.S. Senate a few days ago, which put healthcare reform on track to emerge as”
Posted on Will Drug and Insurance Companies Be Dethroned? November 24, 2009 2:18 PM - “That's a good point, Dorn76. Healthcare costs are rising much faster than inflation, and even if "cost control" were to”
Posted on WHAT HAPPENS IN THE COCOON IS NEVER VERY PRETTY November 24, 2009 12:55 PM - “Deanie - You deserve enormous thanks for your thoughtful, incisive, and compelling essay. It is particularly revealing to review the”
Posted on WHAT HAPPENS IN THE COCOON IS NEVER VERY PRETTY November 24, 2009 11:13 AM - “If one reads either the House Bill, HR3962, or the Senate Bill, what Dean is said to claim will be”
Posted on Is Voting for Nothing Voting for Something? November 24, 2009 12:03 AM - “The importance of pointing out that insurer profits are a very minor part of the healthcare problem, and that a”
Posted on Of bi-partisan health care and puppy dogs November 23, 2009 11:04 PM - “For some quantitative data on insurer profits, see http://www.healthbeatblog.com/2009/08/who-is-making-the-biggest-profits-from-us-healthcare-you-might-be-surprised-.html For data on the enormous challenge posed by the need to”
Posted on Of bi-partisan health care and puppy dogs November 23, 2009 9:07 PM - “Health insurance profits are a small fraction of one percent of GDP - essentially miniscule. Even as a fraction of”
Posted on Of bi-partisan health care and puppy dogs November 23, 2009 8:48 PM - “If the validity of your theory depends on believing that a human can flip a coin in exactly the same”
Posted on Going For It, updated November 19, 2009 11:01 PM - “The Senate bill public option ("community" option in the Senate version) has some features that are better than the House”
Posted on Harry Reid, and What Happened to the Public Option November 19, 2009 10:05 PM - “Probably not, Erica, because treatment of mammographically diagnosed breast cancers hasn't changed or improved discernibly. It's the treatment of clinically”
Posted on Mammography? Probably yes, but perhaps not for every age group. November 19, 2009 9:51 PM - “The cost to insurers of covering mammograms in a fraction of the 40-49 year old age group, when spread across”
Posted on Mammography? Probably yes, but perhaps not for every age group. November 19, 2009 9:49 PM - “Ramona - The evidence indicates that mammography starting at age 50 saves lives. The results are not dramatic, but more”
Posted on Mammography? Probably yes, but perhaps not for every age group. November 19, 2009 9:44 PM - “The corporate/conservative/Republican constituencies are the ones denouncing any change from current routine mammography for women age 40-49. The change, within”
Posted on Mammography? Probably yes, but perhaps not for every age group. November 19, 2009 2:02 PM - “I should add that the health industry is among those promoting political resistance to a change in guidelines, because mammograms”
Posted on Mammography? Probably yes, but perhaps not for every age group. November 19, 2009 1:59 PM - “No. The Task Force has been operating independently for some time, and the recent announcement simply related to its ability”
Posted on Mammography? Probably yes, but perhaps not for every age group. November 19, 2009 1:56 PM - “Yes, the impetus to eliminate PSA screenig for cancer has grown substantially, and it is now likely that routine PSA”
Posted on Mammography? Probably yes, but perhaps not for every age group. November 19, 2009 1:49 PM - “There is no evidence it has saved lives - see the linked cite in my post.”
Posted on Mammography? Probably yes, but perhaps not for every age group. November 19, 2009 1:43 PM - “Erica - Yes, BC treatment has advanced over the past 13 years, and there has consequently been a modest increase”
Posted on Mammography? Probably yes, but perhaps not for every age group. November 19, 2009 11:41 AM - “If you want to try to figure some of this out for yourself, here is a link to the proposed”
Posted on How Much Does This Senate Health Care bill Save Me? November 18, 2009 10:28 PM - “correction - probability the play would succeed is known to be zero in retrospect, not fail.”
Posted on Going For It, updated November 18, 2009 10:14 PM - “There is no evidence for net benefit before the age of 50. However, the panel did not state that mammograms”
Posted on Mammography? Probably yes, but perhaps not for every age group. November 18, 2009 9:01 PM - “Uh oh, I'm beginning to feel "the tugs of entropy". Gotta go.”
Posted on HAVE A GREAT THANKSGIVING! GOD MIGHTILY BLESS YOU! November 18, 2009 8:56 PM - “Sorry for the "get over it" remark, by the way. I enjoy this topic because of the many different perspectives”
Posted on Going For It, updated November 18, 2009 7:37 PM - “The gist of my argument is this. No matter how far back in time you trace it (again discounting quantum”
Posted on Going For It, updated November 18, 2009 7:21 PM - “That's true. Incidentally, I like the main thrust of your post, and my apologies for diverting it into a discussion”
Posted on Going For It, updated November 18, 2009 7:03 PM
