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- Transcendental Meditation Reduces Health Care CostsDuring a study of transcendental meditation people who had high medical costs were able to reduce their costs by doing transcendental meditation.
Death and Health Care CostsTaking a rational look at one to alleviate the burden it imposes on the other.- Tort Reform and Competition as Solutions for High Health Care CostsThis is a look at how tort reform and insurance companies competing across state lines would effect health insurance pricing.
Reducing Your Health Care CostsLearn how to reduce you health care costs by using these simple tips.- Independent Analysis Shows Support for Obama Health Care PlanPricewaterhouseCoopers studied the cost of health care and shows a bleak future, but says the Affordable Care Act has potential to help.
- Health Care Costs Worry L.A. Family with Young SonFor California's large and diverse population, the health care debate has a variety of perspectives, stories and hardships. Joy and Rob Kay, a young married couple in Van Nuys, are no exception.
- Fixing Health Care Without Killing GrandmaHigh-cost, low benefit procedures and medications would appear to be a major contributor to the failure of our system.
Health Care Costs and Medical Records TechnologyHealth care costs are being targeted by making medical records electronic, thus giving not only substantial health care savings in duplication and prevention, but also advancing the study of medicine itself.
Why Do American Health Care Costs Seem to Be Twice What They Are in Other Industrial Countries with Socialized Medicine?Comparisons of nationalized care systems with the American health care "system" make the US out to be the most expensive and show it to be less effective. Before just believing those statistics there are some things you should know.- Practical Tips for Reducing Your Health Care CostsWhile we wait for an overhaul of the health care system, there are practical steps we can take to reduce our personal health care costs.
- Reducing Health Care CostsReducing health care costs is something we all need to consider, because medical costs and dental costs are continuing to increase.
U.S. Health Care: Do We Need Tort Reform?From Sarah Palin to the AMA to conservative pundits, tort reform is being hailed as the key to solving the health care crisis. But is the solution really so simple?
Effects of the Rising Cost of HealthcareOne of the fastest growing sectors of the United States economy is the health care sector. Health care consumption increased from 7 percent of the United States Gross Domestic Product in 1970 to 14 percent in 2002.- Healthcare and Your Cost of Living : McCain Vs. ObamaJohn McCain thinks workers should be taxed for their employers' contribution to health care premiums and less regulation will bring healthcare costs down. Barack Obama thinks employers should either offer health insurance to employees or pay a tax for not doing so.
- The Change in Corporate Health Care BenefitsThe trend in corporate health care plans is to screen employees for lifestyle factors. Those who are overweight, have high blood pressure or cholesterol or smoke tobacco will be paying surcharges for those risk factors.
- AARP: Radically Different Talk Needed About Health Care Costs"Costs that can be lowered through health IT initiatives, comparative effectiveness research, care coordination, and speeding generic drugs to market."
- How to Fight High Dog Health Care CostsPet owners typically consider their pet to be a part of their family. Naturally when a family member becomes ill we want to seek immediate medical attention and to provide the best care possible.
How to Cut the Cost of Health Care for Good10 Critical Steps to regain control of your health care cost spendings- A New Approach in Health Care Cost Management that Does WorkDiscover why a parardigm shift is required to regain control of escalating health care cost.
Why Current Health Care Cost Control Strategies Don't WorkThe real reasons for escalating health care cost and why current cost control strategies don't work.- Solution for Rising Health Care Costs: Ban SmokingSmoking costs our health care industry $75.5 billion each year, it's time we took a stand.
- Saving Money on Health Care CostsToday more and more people are trying to find a way to save money on the cost of health care.
Flexible Spending Account One Way of Curing High Health Care CostsYou can't afford to get sick, but it seems like you can't afford to stay healthy either these days! Here are some tips to help your body and your budget.- The Unmentionable Solution to Rising Health Care CostsUniversal single-payer health coverage would provide downward pressure on medical costs.
Debt Ceiling Stalling Bad for Those with Health Care CostsMy personal reflections on the debt ceiling issue, and how it will affect my ordinary, everyday American family.- Taking Action to Reduce Health Care CostsDepending on the extent of your resources your ability to pass along a substantial legacy to your loved ones can be significantly impacted by the health care expenses that you incur during the latter stages of your life.
- Health Care Expenses Can Have Big ImpactWhen you are making plans for the latter stages of your life there are number of challenges involved, and perhaps foremost among them is the uncertainty that you face when you're making projections.
- Addressing Health Care Costs at the RootAnother thing that is completely within your control is your ability to plan your estate. That planning may involve the use of irrevocable trusts in order to protect your assets from Medicaid availability.
- Addressing Health Care Costs at the RootWhen you are planning for the future there are inherent challenges involved because crystal balls are hard to come by and the only thing you can count on besides death and taxes is change.
- Improving the Quality of Your Health Care at No CostThis article offers practical and no-cost methods to change the quality of your medical care. Learning how to relay information to your doctor and optimizing your health insurance coverage will make you feel better about the care you receive.
Your Bottom Line is Impacted by the Well-Being of Your EmployeesDo you want to remain competitive in the global economic market? Healthcare costs are up and crunching numbers are in. If you want to improve your global position, your organization must focus on employee well-being.
Kids' Meal Toys May Be Banned to Save on Government Health Care CostsToys may be banned from kids' meals in fast food restaurants in one California county. The law is motivated by health care costs; could this legislation be coming to a town near you?
The Obama Health-O-RamaWhile the Obama campaign ran on a promise of transparency, his health care plan has been anything but. What does it really mean for America?
Single-Income Colorado Family Calculates Health Care CostsLove it or hate it, the highly politicized health care bill was signed into law on March 23. With all of the chatter on the airwaves, there is little discussion of how it will really impact Americans.
How to Solve the Health Care Fiasco in the U.SFor many years the U.S. has been struggling to enact a workable health care system. Will we find an equitable solution to this age old dilemma?- The Impact of Indifference on Seniors' Lives, Health Care CostsThis article is about the problem of people living in nursing homes and what indifference does to them and health care costs.
- Health Care Reform and Cost Drivers: American's ContributionThe healthcare reform bill wants to assure all Americans can afford health care but it is not a fix for the system in general. We have to look at how we contribute to rising costs.
- House Passes Burden of Health Care Costs to the Illiterate, and Poor42 million adult Americans can not read and 50 million can only read at the 4th or 5th grade level.
- Our Current Health Care Woes - One HR Professional's PerspectiveOne HR professional's opinion on the state of our current health care and how it affects the average person (or employee).
- Health Care: A Unique American SystemThere are many reasons cited for the rise in health care costs, including bloated administration costs, unequal market power in the hands of insurers, a lack of incentives for cost control, and high R&D costs.
