CCHI Best Practice: Understanding the Health Care Needs of People with Disabilities – Video

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2014 Midterm Election Countdown: Hillary Clinton, Health Care, and Kansas – Video

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2014 Midterm Election Countdown: Hillary Clinton, Health Care, and Kansas
Health care #39;s effect on voter choices, Hillary Clinton #39;s trip to Iowa, and the latest on the race in Kansas. On this week #39;s Election Countdown, Norm Ornstein...

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Ian Smith and Buzz Davis: Don't fall for boondoggle of privatizing VA health care

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Republicans have tried to privatize Veterans Affairs health care since 1946. After 68 years, they are succeeding. In August, the VA was substantially privatized by Congress and President Obama possibly 3 million of the 6.5 million veterans presently receiving VA care will get health care at private hospitals and clinics. Tens of billions of taxpayer dollars will be wasted. And we could lose the major example of cost effective health care in America.

Nearly all the Democrats in Congress voted for the privatization bill (Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014), signed with fanfare by Obama in August.

The law is a response to the problems with some veterans waiting a long time to get VA appointments. VA hospitals across the national have been mandated to conduct town halls to listen to the concerns, suggestions and complaints of veterans, their families and VA workers. The town hall at the Madison VA hospital will take place at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 23.

Private care will cost taxpayers up to 30 percent more than VA health care, which is proven to be of better quality, with shorter appointment wait times than in the private sector. Patient satisfaction surveys are higher at the VA than at most private care facilities.

It's a bad law for veterans and taxpayers. But private care CEOs and stockholders will profit greatly. It is to last only two years but will be extended like every tax cut for the rich or corporations. Then conservatives will argue that VA hospitals should be closed because so few veterans are using them.

It' a repeat of the hat trick President Bush pulled with Medicare Part D and the Medicare Advantage programs. Under Bush, in 2004, they succeeded in establishing a prescription drug program that wastes billions per year by not following the VA's lead and requiring Medicare to get bids all drugs. Congress also privatized Medicare by using the MA program, which places insurance companies in charge of a senior's Medicare. Nearly 30 percent of seniors are in these MA plans. In 2012 Medicare Advantage cost $34.6 billion more to provide health care than if the same number of seniors had been in the traditional Medicare program. Privatization does NOT save money.

So how did the Republicans bamboozle all those Dems?

1. We have a failed Congress. They all wish to be re-elected in November. They needed some issue that they could pass in a bipartisan manner that would get the voters' attention. The fraudulently run Phoenix VA hospital provided the issue. Soon we learned 160,000 veterans, who were new to the VA system, were not getting the health care they needed for months or a year or more.

FACTS: The VA system is overloaded with patients, is massively understaffed and needs billions of dollars of updated and additional facilities to serve the influx of aging vets and war on terror vets. That's the basic cause for the 160,000 vets not receiving timely health care. The VA made an extraordinary effort and sent most of those 160,000 vets to private care. Thus the VA solved the problem for these vets before Congress cut the final deal.

The VA is big. With over 1,700 facilities and 6.5 million patients, it's the largest medical system in the USA. It is the best example of single-payer health care in America. The VA proved that 84 percent of its appointments were 14 days or less from the time they were made. This is far quicker than the private sector average of about 18-day wait times.

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Health care a prescription for poverty: doctor

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The idea of doctors and other health-care providers as advocates is absolutely essential if we want to see a true end to poverty as a public health issue. Dr. Gary Bloch

Dr. Gary Blochs prescription for better health social assistance, housing subsidies and help filing taxes.

When the Toronto-based doctor established his family practice, he found there were patients whose health conditions would not improve despite receiving the right drugs, tests and examinations.

That common denominator that came out really seemed to be the fact that they were struggling with their income, said Bloch. They just couldnt afford to survive properly in our society.

He began incorporating discussions on income into his practice and providing patients with direct links to social assistance programs. His clinic now has an employee dedicated to providing income security support.

Bloch argues for the role physicians can play in improving health through reducing poverty both within their practices and by advocating for large-scale changes to things like minimum wage and social assistance.

Its a concept hell share through a series of events in Vancouver this week hosted by the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition. The message is especially important within B.C., which has the highest poverty rate in Canada, says Trish Garner of the coalition.

Aiyanas Ormond, a spokesman for the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, agrees there are definite links between health and income.

If youre a doctor working on the Downtown Eastside, if youre not blind, then you recognize that poverty is at the roots of a lot of ill health people have, he said. Thats definitely an area where I would support health workers to take on a strong advocacy role.

The development of Vancouvers InSite program was a successful alliance between patients and physicians, who fought together for harm reduction and safer conditions for drug users, he says.

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Tom Still: As health care evolves, so does need for smarter, cost-effective tools

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CHICAGO Some of the trends in American health care are obvious: Managing costs in the age of Obamacare, patients using online information to take charge of their own health and wellness, and finding ways to deliver care in settings other than hospitals and clinics.

Those trends become specific, sometimes knotty, challenges for people engaged in building the tools needed to effectively, efficiently and safely deliver health care.

Envisioning, designing and manufacturing medical devices which range from robots to sensors, and from surgical instruments to software that allows devices to communicate with one another was the topic of a conference Thursday and Friday in Chicago.

The event confirmed that device innovation in Wisconsin can compete with the nations best, especially when its driven by solving problems in patient care.

Attendees and speakers from organizations such as Baxter Healthcare, Phillips Healthcare, Advamed, Cook Medical and Cardinal Health talked about best practices and trends in medical devices, most of which are regulated by the federal Food and Drug Administration and which compete for shelf space in the world of health care delivery.

Conversations ranged from development of a five-foot-tall remote doctor, which is a robot that roams hospital halls and interacts with patients, to cybersecurity risks posed by wireless medical devices to regulation of prescription-only mobile applications. Behind the often-technical talk was a sense that medical device innovators cant just invent things because they make cool operating room toys. They must start with a feel for what patients and providers need and to assess whether the cost of innovation comes with benefits that match or exceed those costs.

So, whats the wish list for solving patient and provider problems? My remarks at the conference included ideas expressed by experts at Aurora Healthcare, Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin and the Marshfield Clinic.

A few examples:

Technology that provides real-time, remote access to patient diagnostic test information in a manner compliant with federal privacy laws.

Remote sensing and monitoring devices that measure patient vitals and simple chemistries, such as glucose levels, and transmit them into the medical record electronically.

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WARNING: Ebola & the Days of Noah – Mass Scale Genetic Engineering of the Human Race – Video

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John Krubski – Futurist and Innovation Speaker, Author of Cracking The America Code – Video

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Learn More, Do More, Be More: Global Futurist Jack Uldrich Joins Magic Johnson and Steve Wilder and Others Addressing …

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Anaheim, CA (PRWEB) September 21, 2014

On Sunday, September 21st Futurist Jack Uldrich will lead a general session for the 2014 Charted Property and Casual Underwriters' Society in Anaheim, California. The 2014 Annual meeting, kicked off by Earvin "Magic" Johnson as their keynote speaker, is shaping up to be a great event. Uldrich will lead his session on Future Trends and the Insurance industry.

In accordance with their mission of "Learn More, Do More, Be More," Uldrich will address the mindset surrounding the attainment of technical knowledge that CPSU Society Members can immediately apply and empower themselves to confidently meet the challenges facing their businesses.

Uldrich's keynote aims to keep the CPSU Society on track and step up their game when it comes to the latest technological trends affecting the Insurance Industry. Some of the topics that he will address with the group are included in this article: Five Foreseeable Future Risks. Other highlights will include how leaders at the CPSU Society Annual Meeting can learn to embrace ambiguity;" why finding a reverse mentor could be crucial; and why taking small risks may very well be the safest thing underwriters can do to position themselves for success in the years to come.

Jack Uldrich is a renowned global futurist, independent scholar, professional business speaker and best-selling author who helps organizations succeed by delivering new perspectives on competitive advantage, organizational change and transformational leadership. He has served as an adviser to Fortune 1000 companies and spoken to hundreds of businesses and organizations on how to keep up with, and profit from, future trends and emerging technologies. Uldrich's work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, the Futurist, and in hundreds of other newspapers and publications around the country. He is also a recurrent guest of the media worldwide, having appeared on CNN, MSNBC, and National Public Radio on numerous occasions.

Parties interested in learning more about Jack Uldrich, his books, his daily blog or his speaking availability are encouraged to contact Amy Tomczyk at (651) 343.0660.

Jack Uldrich is a renowned global futurist, technology forecaster, best-selling author, editor of the quarterly newsletter, The Exponential Executive, and host of the award-winning website, http://www.jumpthecurve.net.

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