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Category Archives: End-of-life
Affordable Health Care for Baby-Boomers: At What Price?
On May 13, 2011, the Medicare Trustees Report was released showing that while Medicare remains solvent longer than expected prior to passage of the Affordable Care Act, challenges remain for securing the long term financial health of the Medicare program. … Continue reading
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Tagged Baby-boomers, cancer, drugs, health care providers, health reform, healthcare, Medicaid, Medical insurance, Medicare, rationing
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Is Rationing of Health Care Ethical?
A recent New York Times article entitled “New Kidney Transplant Policy Would Favor Younger Patients” references a proposal being considered by the nation’s organ transplant network to allocate organs in an alternative manner than the present first-come-first-served system. The article … Continue reading
Posted in End-of-life, Health reform, Patients, Quality of Care
Tagged healthcare, kidney, rationing, transplant, UNOS
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Life is a terminal condition!
It has been said that each of us will spend 80% of our total life’s health costs during the last 22 months of life. Reversing that thought would imply that unless we are less than two years from death’s door, we have yet to consume 20% of our total life health costs. Continue reading
Posted in End-of-life, Health reform, Patients, Private Payers, Quality of Care
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Saving lives or dollars?
The Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee of the FDA stirred up a firestorm of controversy when it voted to recommend withdrawing government approval of Avastin as a treatment for advanced breast cancer. The Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece entitled … Continue reading
Posted in End-of-life, Health reform, Quality of Care
Tagged Baby-boomers, cancer, drugs, health care providers, health reform, healthcare, Medicaid, Medical insurance, rationing
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