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HEALTHPLANUSA.NET QUARTERLY REVIEW Restoring Affordable Health Plans Vol XIX, No 1, Jan, 2020 Reverting from a Vertical to a Horizontal Industry Insuring every American by Eliminating $Trillions wasted by Bureaucracy INTRODUCTION Hello: Just a reminder that you are receiving this email because either a) you have enrolled, b) have been referred, or c) expressed an interest in HealthPlanUSA. Don’t forget to add delmeyer@ix.netcom.com to your address book so we’ll be sure to land in your inbox! We’ve also invited friends and colleagues who appeared to be interested in the current debate in our country concerning private health care vs government-controlled healthcare as in Medicare-for-all. If we’ve been misinformed, please check the box below to be removed. You may unsubscribe if you no longer wish to receive our email. Thank you for your understanding. Warmest personal regards, Del Meyer, MD, Editor and Founder. * * * * * The major current Problems in HealthCare The $3 trillion health care industry is the only major segment of the economy that is failing, and there is nothing the employer, insurance carrier or government can do about it. Health care is the only product or service (outside of public education) that has consistently grown worse over the past 75 years, with decreasing customer (patient) satisfaction. Every other product and service in our economy has improved in quality and grown less expensive over time, with increasing customer satisfaction. Health care is the only sector of the economy where prices have been steadily increasing since the end of WWII. Every other sector of the economy is reaping the benefits of Moore’s Law, which states that the cost of digital technology decreases by 50 percent every 18 months. In health care, it is the reverse: less efficient and more-costly. For instance, although the Length of Stay (LOS) for delivery of a child has decreased from four or five days to one or two days, the hospital cost has more than doubled. The LOS for gallbladder surgery has decreased from five days to one day, but the hospital cost has doubled. The surgeons’ fees have remained relatively stable during this time. The answer and solution to this conundrum is the challenge of HealthPlanUSA. Please join us in this dialog and conversation.
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Medical Practice, HealthCare, Government and Society
By Moving from a Vertical Industry (Hospital Medical Complex) to a Horizontal Industry (Physicians-Hospital-Insurance on the same level) with Freedom from Gov’t Interference Despite Democratic Socialists Faith In Government, it is The Precursor Of Totalitarianism. IN THIS SECTION WE FEATURE FREEDOM LOVING ENTERPRISES, AND ORGANIZATIONS FOR YOUR INTEREST AND SUPPORT IN OUR EFFORTS TO KEEP […]
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12. Allan Gerson, June 19, 1945-Dec 1, 2019, of Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease Allan Gerson Made Libya Pay for Pan Am 103 Bombing By James R. Hagerty | WSJ
Creative lawyer helped win $2.7 billion in damages, in what started out as a quixotic quest After the terrorist bombing of Pan American Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, lawyers for some of the 270 people killed did the obvious: They sued Pan Am for alleged negligence in allowing the bomb to be smuggled […]
December
On December 2, 2001, the Enron Corporation files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a New York court, sparking one of the largest corporate scandals in U.S. history. An energy-trading company based in Houston, Texas, Enron was formed in 1985 as the merger of two gas companies, Houston Natural Gas and Internorth. Under chairman and […]
In the November Medical Tuesday Journal
Featured Article: There’s no need to dread conflict during dinner Finding common ground with liberals at Thanksgiving By Kay Coles James, President, Heritage Foundation With Thanksgiving approaching, a common complaint I hear is that the mix of political views at holiday gatherings can create some tense moments. However, there’s no need to dread conflict during […]
Equality by Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) A San Francisco longshoreman—turned—author who achieved immediate fame for his book True Believers (1951), in which he described the underlying logic of mass movements, such as Nazism and Communism, and the characteristics of their followers.
A 1956 profile in Look magazine identified Hoffer as “Ike’s Favorite Author,” elevating this blue-collar workingman to the level of President Eisenhower’s bedside table. It wasn’t just Eisenhower who appreciated Hoffer’s intelligence and wit. Public figures, ranging from the author and historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. to the philosopher and social critic Bertrand Russell, praised his […]
The money that the taxpayers have given to the poor has not helped.
I had a discussion with a student in my class who was a tax & spend person. He was quite outspoken in his opinions that taxes should be raised to previous high levels. He seemed to be hostile to the wealthy. I asked him if he thought the rich could pay 100% in taxes. He, […]
A Piece of the Pie by Charles B. Clark, MD. Surgery of the upper extremities.
As managed care was conscripting the medical profession in the 1980s and 1990s, and doctors became impotent to the forces of control of our professional expertise, very few took the risk of not signing the managed care contracts being circulated among us. When I go to the Medical Grand Rounds at the UC Davis Medical […]