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Rethinking Health Care Funding
submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
The rate of spending for health care has outstripped economic growth in almost every country for the past 15 years. There aren't obvious ways of controlling health care costs that seem realistic. Approaches that have been considered include Universal Health Care programs, cuts in health care services, increasing taxes, entrusting more services...
Safe Skin Care Products with Lani Simpson, DC
submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
Commercial skin care problems are not regulated and they tend to go through the skin more often than most of us realize. Over time bioaccumulation is a big issue.
Senator Ted Kennedy
submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
Senator Kennedy's life of public service and dedication to bringing health care to all Americans is celebrated. It is ironic that it was his seat that was lost to the Republican Party and was the vote that made the process more challenging.
Shifting From Disease Care to Health Care with Richard Miles
submitted by: admin on 05/18/2024
Today’s MDs are faced with adapting from looking at the universe as potentially hostile to the concept that it is intelligent and self managing. An intervention imperative has emerged for financial and technological reasons.
Shifting Medicine from Disease Care to Health Care
submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
We cannot sustain a sick care health system and must shift to a true health care system where prevention is the cornerstone of medical practice. In my book, A Return to Healing, I present a 5 point plan that could help encourage a health care paradigm. This program includes: Funding exercise programs both nationally and locally and in every academic...
Should MDs be Paid for Performance?
submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
Pay-for-performance schemes financially reward MDs for hitting special numerical targets such as hospital stay, readmissions, use of certain drugs, and cost controls. An article in the August issue of the British Medical Journal take the position that pay-for-performance will do more harm than good by changing the mindset of the physician. The Accountable Care...
Should Patients Have Access to Their Medical Records?
submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
Most patients want access to their medical records including the doctor's notes according to an article published in the December issue of Annals of Internal Medicine. In this study, called OpenNotes, 37,000 patients and 170 physicians were surveyed. Of the MDs 63 refused to participate and 80% of patients liked the idea of having access to their records....
Sicko!, Micheal Moore's Landmark Film
submitted by: admin on 05/18/2024
Michael Moore's movie "Sicko!" is a landmark film that reveals the conflicts of interest between Big Pharma, the insurance industry, and congress. The political corruption of many prominent Congress people is revealed. The uncaring and ruthless business nature of the US health care system is opened wide.
Solving the World's Biggest Problem
submitted by: admin on 12/11/2013
Health care in the world has become unaffordable and we can no longer sustain our present health care paradigm. Unless we take care of ourselves by living a healthy lifestyle we will not be able to survive financially. People are living much longer today than even a decade ago and the younger generation is unable to pay for the cost of the epidemic of chronic...
Some Doctors are Firing Patients Who Refuse Immunizations
submitted by: admin on 10/19/2019
Many pediatricians are firing patients and their families if they refuse vaccines for their children! Two studies on this subject showed that 20-30% of pediatricians have fired patient because of this. Patients are beginning to do their own research about the validity of immunizations and there is clearly room for controversy. Yet our pediatricians simply follow...
Speeding the Transition from Sick Care to Health Care with Russell Jaffe MD, PhD
submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
The importance of living a healthy lifestyle is the key to living a healthy life. We can eliminate most illnesses through lifestyle strategies. Yet we live in a medical paradigm that depends on our getting sick. We have the technologies to promote wellness today. Yet there are powerful forces that keep the paradigm right where it is.
Steroids and Sports with Phillip Miller, MD
submitted by: admin on 10/16/2013
Are steroids unfair in sport. Hear the unusual perspectives of Dr. Miller. Both testosterone and growth hormone are illegal, but how much good do they do? He also feels that these antiaging hormones are valuable as we get older. If we are active weekend warriors, by the time we're 50, we start getting injuries...these hormones can prevent them.
Super Natural Home with Beth Greer
submitted by: admin on 05/18/2024
We often take good health for granted until things go wrong. We need to be proactive about our lifestyle and be sure we eat food that is toxin free and be certain we are not exposed to toxic skin care products and household cleaners. Regulation of these products is inadequate. Food is also a concern and issues such as GMO, microwaved food, pesticides, and additives...
Super Natural Home with Beth Greer Part III
submitted by: admin on 05/18/2024
The FDA does not regulate skin care products. Cosmetic companies have an association that is supposed to monitor the ingredients that are put on our skin, but there is a conflict of interest that corrupts its regulation. Women use between 15 and 25 products every day! Most department store brands are toxic and unsafe to put on our bodies. Natural organic skin...
Taking Charge of Your Life with Francesco Garri Garripoli
submitted by: admin on 10/16/2013
If we are going to evolve as a healthy community, it is necessary to start from the grass roots level to be the change you want to see. Social transformation that works must be the way of the peaceful warrior and be an evolutionary process rather than a revolutionary process. Francesco shares the thinking and tools we need to build a healthy community.
Francesco...
The Affordable Care Act and Quality of Care, Cost, and MD Availability
submitted by: admin on 10/16/2013
About 1/3 of office-based MDs declined to accept new Medicaid patients in 2011 according to an article in the journal, Health Affairs. Acceptance was directly related to financial reimbursement. In the state of Wyoming more than 99% of MDs accepted Medicaid patient; their reimbursement was 150% of that of Medicare. In the state of New Jersey, where...
The Authors Discuss the Book "A Return to Healing"
submitted by: admin on 05/18/2024
Len Saputo, M.D. discusses some critical issues regarding healthcare reform as well as very achievable solutions.
The Birth of Health Medicine with Byron Belitsos
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
The history of Health Medicine, the Health Medicine Forum and the Health Medicine Center is reviewed. Healing Circles are described. CAM practitioners generally are treated as second class citizens in mainstream medicine. This poses severe limitations on integrative health care.
The California Health Alliance with Russell Jaffe, MD
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
The purpose of California Health Alliance is to curb the epidemic of obesity and Type 2 diabetes in California. There has been an increase of 5% per year of diabetes in kids under the age of 5. We cannot afford the costs that will be generated from this epidemic. We must shift our health care model from disease care to health care.
The Dehumanization of Medicine
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
Dehumanization in today's medical practice is the standard of care. This has been especially common since the institution of the hospitalists. Patients are no longer often managed by their primary care doctor. They are often dressed half-naked, identified by their disease (ie the gallbladder in room 325), and treated as though they cannot participate in making...
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