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Tag: consumer driven healthcare
Four Ways to Engage High-Deductible Health Care Plans
Visiting the doctor, whether for a routine check-up or a life-saving procedure, has always been a source of anxiety for many, largely due to the many unknowns, big words, and frightening discoveries that the patient can encounter. While health insurance is intended to make health care more affordable, and it...
Consumers Putting Off Medical Care & Risking Health
Consumer Reports National Research Center suggests that despite people saying the recession is over, consumers are acting as if it is not. And in the worst possible way – playing with their health. The percentage of consumers who said they didn’t fill prescriptions, took less medicine than a prescribed dose,...
Consumers Putting Off Medical Care & Risking Health
Consumer Reports National Research Center suggests that despite people saying the recession is over, consumers are acting as if it is not. And in the worst possible way – playing with their health.æ The percentage of consumers who said they didn’t fill prescriptions, took less medicine than a prescribed dose,...
Fewer Consumers Seeking Health Care
According to a Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, one in five Americans did not seek medical care for a recent illness or injury, with four out of 10 citing cost as the primary factor. Fewer consumers visited a physician or healthcare professional in the past year; 79% of respondents sought...
Think Hospital Care is Local? Think Again.
Read this interesting story at CNN about a woman who wanted to have her baby delivered vaginally after having a previous child by C-section. Her hospital refused. So she moved. And delivered (safely and vaginally) at another hospital. I am not going to debate the medicine and science behind VBAC’s...