Low Tech Health Care Reform: Stop Smoking!

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I have a very simple way to save the government billions of dollars in health care costs, and make Americans healthier, almost immediately:
Outlaw tobacco.
Likely to happen? Not a chance.  The tobacco lobby is way too powerful, and the tobacco states will rally loudly and strongly against it, not to mention big pharma that will [...]

Health Care Reform With Out High Tech: Changing a Culture of Fatness to a Culture of Fitness

 
President Obama has a stimulus package all ready to roll out.  Reportedly, it will include money ear marked to expand COBRA.  If this is true, there will be precious little left to fund the ‘everybody has to have an EMR’ mandate.
Good, I say.  Let’s work on some low tech solutions that will reap true benefits.  [...]

Technology will not save health care, personal responsibility will.

 
 
 
 
During  President Obama’s speech he stated
“We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its cost.”
I completely, totally disagree.  President Obama, health care doesn’t need high technology, health care needs personal responsibility.  America’s health care costs are excessive for several reasons, and most have nothing to [...]

AHIP Rides in to Save Health Care

America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) has released a plan on how to reduce health care costs.  The platform is summarized below:
The new reform proposal would:
Ensure universal coverage by guaranteeing coverage for pre-existing conditions, fixing the health care safety net, giving tax credits to working families and enacting an individual coverage requirement;
Call on the nation to set [...]