A breakdown of our biggest losses as we approach health-care system reform.
The United States spends eight times as much money on unnecessary health-care costs, every year, as the Pentagon spent for each year of its operations in Iraq.
Continue reading… “The U.S. healthcare system wastes $750 billion each year”
An influx of 30 million patients will impact primary care.
I distinctly remember that in first grade I had an idea of breathtaking wisdom and profundity. Candy should be free. You may have had a similar thought at the same age. This idea was supported by an incontrovertible rationale, namely that I really liked candy. Tragically, it only took a moment for my parents to expose a flaw in my otherwise revolutionary scheme. They suggested that if candy were free, no one would bother making candy. All candy makers would do something else that allowed them to make a living. Thus exposed to the painful realities of life, I put the thought out of my head for about forty years.
Continue reading… “How will doctors handle the influx of new patients in 2014?”
Janis Adkins lives in her van in Santa Barbara.
Median household income is in the middle of its worst 12-year period since the Great Depression. New York Times and David Leonhardt have launched a feature to investigate the hardest question: Why?
Continue reading… “Why the sharp decline of the middle class”
The rate for the South was 29.5%, followed by the Midwest at 29%, the Northeast at 25.3% and the West at 24.3%.
On Monday, the federal government released its “obesity map”, outlining the rates of obesity and how rates in the states compare. Colorado gets the svelte bragging rights, with 20.7% of its adults obese. At the other end of the scale is Mississippi, with a rate of 34.9%.
Continue reading… “New federal obesity statistics show Mississippi fattest, Colorado thinnest”
America spends $2.4 trillion each year on medical care.
Your head is probably full of facts and a few distortions thanks to the seemingly endless debate about how best to fix healthcare in the United States and what exactly the problem is with American medicine. In his new book Fractured, Ted Epperly, M.D., a former Army doctor and professor of community medicine at the University of Washinton (and Men’s Health‘s family medicine advisor), breaks it down for you. Here, Epperly cuts through the politics and explains just how big a hole we’ve dug for ourselves—and how you can make it out sooner than you think.
Continue reading… “5 things you don’t know about healthcare in America”
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The potential of government making health information as useful as weather data felt like an abstraction two years ago. Healthcare data could give citizens the same “blue dot” for navigating health and illness akin to the one GPS data fuels on the glowing map of geolocated mobile devices that are in more and more hands.
Continue reading… “Mobile health apps just the beginning of the disruption in healthcare”
Wal-Mart already has 140 independently operated clinics in its stores across the country.
Wal-Mart may expand on its 140 in-store health clinics by partnering with outside vendors to provide chronic and preventative health care services for everything from HIV and diabetes to pregnancy testing.
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Incentive-based health programs can motivate people to change their behaviour.
Among insurance customers who were rewarded with lower premiums for keeping fit, those who added two gym visits to their weekly routine were 13 per cent less likely to go to hospital.
Obesity will worsen by 2030.
Obesity is most widespread in the United States and Britain among the world’s leading economies. By 2030, about half of both men and women in the U.S. will be obese if present trends continue, health experts warn.
Continue reading… “Almost half of Americans will be obese by 2030”
Louisville, Colorado, home of the DaVinci Institute, has been
ranked No. 1 as the best small city in America.
In the minds of most people the phrase “small town” conjures up images of happier times.When the economy wasn’t in the current state it is now. When unemployment wasn’t above 9%. When people didn’t stress out about home values. When school budgets weren’t under siege. Those were the days, right?
Continue reading… “Top 10 best small towns in America 2011”
The “fourth bureaus” track your everyday transactions including your magazine subscriptions.
Mike Mondelli, an Atlanta entrepreneur, has access to more than a billion records detailing consumers’ personal finances — and there is little they can do about it.
Continue reading… “‘Fourth bureau’ – little known companies track data used in credit scores”
A single application was enough to stop all further bacterial growth.
U.S. scientists develop a new anti-microbial treatment that can make clothing – including smelly socks – permanently germ-free.
Continue reading… “New spray-on solution can permanently get rid of germs on clothes”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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