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MVNHS© on a Roll by InsureBlog .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy But not necessarily a good one:" The number of hospital patients killed by mistakes has risen by 60 per cent in two years, official figures show...Patient groups have war ... Read on »

Split Personality by InsureBlog .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I have a confession to make. I have a split personality. No, not the psychological disorder, but let's just say I am multi-faceted. In addition to my indentured servitude he ... Read on »

Fitness Mandate by InsureBlog .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Want to lose weight and get in shape for the New Year? Move to Maryland. Seriously. A local (LaVale, Maryland) gym owner wants the Maryland General Assembly to support the ... Read on »

Things Your Provider May Not Be Telling You by InsureBlog .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Does your doc tell you about health insurance? Does he or she inform you of different plans available to you? If not, things may be changing soon. If legislators in New Jers ... Read on »

Grand Rounds: First 2009 Edition by InsureBlog .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Edwin Leap hosts this week's collection of great medblog posts. There are a lot of good items here, and he obviously read them all: each one has a helpful summary.I must say, ... Read on »

Hair Transplant Insurance by InsureBlog .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I have long resolved that there is nothing I can do to stop the loss of hair follicles, but some folks are willing to invest thousands of dollars in an attempt to look youthfu ... Read on »

Insurance by the Mile? by InsureBlog .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy A consumer-oriented online forum at which Bob and I frequently post [ full disclosure: we've both received golf shirts for our "services" there ], a poster recently ... Read on »

Top 100: Again! by InsureBlog .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Back in September, we reported that IB had been selected by RN Central as one of their top 100 health care policy blogs.Quite an honor, and we were grateful for that recogniti ... Read on »

Swag Gone? by InsureBlog .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy In a trend I'd like to see emulated by other industries (e.g. insurance), " the pharmaceutical industry has agreed to a voluntary moratorium on the kind of branded goodie ... Read on »

Blessed Event or Lucky Break: A New Year's Conundrum by InsureBlog .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy [ Editor's note: this post is not about abortion, per se , so please refrain from comments pro and con re: abortion rights ]First, Mazel Tov to British couple Gaynor and Lee P ... Read on »

Grady's New Year Resolutions by InsureBlog .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy One of the New Year resolutions for Grady Hospital in Atlanta is similar to what many of us pledge. The difference is, while we resolve to lose weight, Grady resolves to lose ... Read on »

Some futures aren't much fun to contemplate - IV by InsureBlog .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I've linked to a story from today's London Daily Mail 31 December. Pleaseread the entire article. I warn you it is not easy reading.“[The patient’s] daughter-in- ... Read on »

Cavalcade of Risk #68: Up and Running! by InsureBlog .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Louise at Colorado Health Insurance Insider presents the EOY '08 Cavalcade of Risk. As usual, she does a GREAT job, including her own spin on each entry.Do check it out. Read on »

Stress and the CEO by InsureBlog .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Alert reader Jeff M alerts us to this, um, alert:Saving lifestyles, one exec at a time. Read on »

Nataline a Year Later: Even More Disturbing News by InsureBlog .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy About this time last year, we reported on the sad case of Nataline Sarkisyan. Our post on December 21, 2007, began:" The family of a 17-year-old girl who died hours after ... Read on »

Government Inefficiency by InsureBlog .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy There are many social programs, funded by the taxpayer, and mismanaged by government administration. The story of Sabrina Holloway is just one of those. Sabrina is a 39 year ... Read on »

This Sceptered Isle - Part XI by InsureBlog .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Didn’t believe me aboutcompulsory health care, eh? Well then, now read this: NHS chiefs are planning to order a massive 40 per cent increase in weight loss surgery for ... Read on »

Alternative Health Care by InsureBlog .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Folks in Canada (and many other countries as well) have free health care. So why would they have a need for an alternative? Timely Medical Alternatives is a firm that arranges ... Read on »

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy " A pregnant woman in the U.K. was left unattended for hours and had to give birth on a hospital floor despite her desperate appeal for a bed."Earlier this month, 36 ... Read on »

Cavalcade of Risk #68: Call for Submissions by InsureBlog .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Our 2008 EOY Cavalcade of Risk is hosted next week byColorado Health Insurance Insider'sJay Norris. Submissions are due this coming Monday (the 29th), and Jay reminds you to i ... Read on »

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