[...] Colorado ranks among the top of the list in terms of how many people eat the recommended amount of produce each day, and yet the vast majority of our adults are not getting the recommended amounts (we only rank near the top because so many other states are doing so much worse). Health care reform has focused largely on expanding access to health insurance for the millions of Americans who are currently uninsured, and that’s a good start. But eliminating tobacco use and increasing access to nutritious food could go a long way in terms of improving the health of the American people.
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Archive for May, 2010
Focusing On Nutrition To Prevent Cancer
Friday, May 28th, 2010Demand For HSAs Continuing To Grow
Friday, May 28th, 2010[...] A new report from AHIP notes that the number of Americans covered by HDHP/HSA policies reached 10 million in 2010, up from 8 million last year. In Colorado, 9.2% of the under-65, privately insured population has HSA qualified coverage, which is the third-highest percentage in the nation. A recent study by the Mountain States Employers Council reports that 27% of Colorado employers surveyed are offering consumer-driven health plans this year, up from 21% last year. [...]
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Dentists Overprescribing Antibiotics and Avoiding Health Care Reform
Friday, May 28th, 2010[...] MD Whistleblower had a couple good observations:
- Dentists prescribe prophylactic antibiotics (ATBs) with routine recklessness… Many dentists irrationally prescribe ATBs before teeth cleanings and other procedures.
- Not a syllable in the ~2000 page health care reform law that affects dentists.
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Another Way Exercise Could Lower Health Care Costs
Friday, May 28th, 2010[...] Maybe if doctors and patients were all aware of the fact that exercise is more beneficial in the long term than anti-depressants, we could start to cut down on the number of anti-depressant prescriptions being written. Lower utilization of pharmaceutical products would be helpful in terms of limiting the overall cost of medical claims and thus the price of health insurance as time goes on. [...]
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Most Emergency Room Patients Have Health Insurance
Friday, May 28th, 2010[...] Finding a doctor who takes Medicaid is significantly more difficult than finding a doctor who takes private health insurance, and I wonder if that might be a contributing factor in the crowding of our emergency rooms. If a person with Medicaid is sick and unable to find a nearby doctor who accepts Medicaid, he might end up not seeing a doctor at all and his condition might worsen to the point of needing emergency room care. Maybe efforts to make Medicaid more attractive to doctors might help to alleviate some of the over-crowding in emergency rooms.
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Disability Insurance Awareness Month
Friday, May 28th, 2010[...] May is disability insurance awareness month, and it’s a good reminder to consider how well you’re protecting your greatest asset – your earning potential. Working adults are more likely to encounter a disability that prevents them from working for at least 90 days than they are to die, and yet people tend to be more proactive about securing life insurance than disability insurance. [...]
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Sebelius Urges Health Insurance Providers To Follow WellPoint’s Example
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Physician Pay for Performance Reimbursement Incentives Could Backfire
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Low Literacy a Barrier to Medicaid Coverage
Friday, May 28th, 2010so interesting
Restaurant Health Care Alliance Offers Health Insurance to Owners, Employees
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