Archive for the 'Health Care News' Category

healthcare managed to survive despite recession

January 20th, 2011

Because of the infusion of a lot of money from Washington, the various states in the United States has been able to hold together its healthcare safety nets even with the threat of recession. This was the finding of a recent study done on the American healthcare. The great thing about what has happened is [...]

Roster of death.

December 10th, 2009

Do you remember the game you played when you were kids? The game wherein you had to save only 5 – 10 people (placed inside the boat) out of, say, 20 (depending on the rules of the game), and lay off the others who are “worthless”, all of which have special cases? Doctors in Chicago [...]

Microsoft HealthVault Launches Contest for Best Online Health Applications

November 30th, 2009

The Microsoft HealthVault Fund has increased from $3 million to $4.5 million to give more substantial awards for the winners of the online health applications contest. This contest encourages the creation of solutions that address health issues such as childhood obesity, diabetes management, medication reconciliation and health management. The judges represent leaders from the health [...]

Compromise – The Key To Success

July 12th, 2009

With respect to the health care system proposals from the current administration that has seen a lot of resistance and was met with skepticism when it entered deliberations. He did make it a point when he introduced the bill that he was not going to accept any compromise. But reality comes and hits hard with [...]

Health Care Law Proposals Met with Resistance

June 12th, 2009

President Obama promised to overhaul the US’s health care system ever since he ran for office for it is one of the most pressing social issues that is plaguing the US. Many people who voted for him are in fact hoping for the “CHANGE” he so promised that was the norm of the political system [...]

Tackling Health Care – Silently

May 10th, 2009

This is the approach being taken by the Obama administration for the industry can be compared to a chunk of Swiss Cheese, riddled with holes and headaches. The health care system in the US is not only damaged but the whole health system is in so need of a revamp, touching one side of the [...]

Ineffective Claims Processing

April 10th, 2009

The economy is in shambles and one of the most critical victims is of course, the health care system. The US health care system has been battling for survival since the system fell in disarray many years back with public care being of less importance that the many costs the government had to fund. The [...]

Government Faces Tough Health Care Revamp

March 10th, 2009

It has been promised but has yet to be realized, the health care system of the US is wrought with dangers at every twist and turn. Why, it has been so riddled with scandals, corruption and mishandling that it would take more than just reform with the only option being a total revamp of the [...]

Frivolous Lawsuits

January 30th, 2009

These are cases that the plaintiff and lawyer both agree on having little or no merit but still decide to pursue. These cases are more on the side of Personal injury, where people or companies file cases to get the other to pay for injuries sustained (or not) during the performance of their duty. There [...]

SCHIP – Better Health care for Kids

December 30th, 2008

State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) is hailed as the first step into the much needed overhaul of the American Health care system which has suffered so much in these past few years that millions upon millions of Americans do not have proper health insurance. Most American families fall in between the gap that does [...]