Insurance-driven world affects doctors and patients

I went to my doctor recently. I am a retired physician. Just a routine follow-up visit. No big deal. I am generally well except for a few common ailments typical of an aging baby boomer.

He is a nice fellow and a competent doc who I believe has the best interests of his patients at heart. He is not unlike most physicians in the US, well-trained, technically competent, and hard working.

“What do you mean? Don’t we have the best medicine in the world,” my golf buddies will say when I suggest our system is flawed. They talk about the

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Don’t miss Georgia Southern Coaching Education’s next FREE online coaching clinic on Thursday 1/19/23 at 7pm eastern in partnership with the Minority Coaches Association of Georgia.

SPEAKERS & TOPICS:

SaJason FinleyMS, SCCC, USAW-II, RPR-I, FMS, PN-I
Role: Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Central Phenix-City HS
Topic: 4 Pillars Mindset, Movement, Nutrition, Recovery

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Role: Professor at Georgia Southern
Topic: Concepts of Improving Upper Body Mobility

Joseph Myricks, M.Ed, USAW Level 1
Role: Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Alexander High School
Topic: Do The Most:

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For the best start, babies need their moms to be healthy

The twelve-month postpartum insurance coverage extension for moms who give birth while on the Pregnant Women Medicaid Program (HB0004) up for consideration in the Wyoming Legislature can help ensure new moms and their babies are healthy.

A baby’s health is strongly linked to that of her mother’s — especially during the first year of life when critical brain development is happening. Access to continuous postpartum health insurance for moms is essential to keep them healthy. Right now, moms and babies can’t count on that.

Maternal postpartum health risks include stroke, heart disease, blood loss and death. One in ten deaths

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Is the FTC Banning Non-Competes?

Earlier this month, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed a rule that will ban many non-compete agreements throughout the country if it is enacted.

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Non-compete agreements are agreements that prevent employees from working in certain industries following employment with their current employer. They are often limited by geographic scope and time.

For example, a non-compete clause may prevent a physician from working in the medical field for one year following …

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What Cancer Patients Should Consider When Picking a Health Plan

For people who do not have health insurance through an employer or are not yet eligible for Medicare, there is still time to enroll in a plan through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace.

In most states, the clock is ticking. The open enrollment period for 2023 health plans began November 1 and ends in just 4 days, on January 15. But some states, including California, New Jersey, New York, and Massachusetts, as well as Washington, DC, have granted potential enrollees more wiggle room and have extended deadlines to the end of the month. After that, persons in special circumstances,

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Medical health insurance enlargement through Obamacare linked to fewer cardiac arrests

A sudden catastrophic lack of coronary heart operate, or cardiac arrest, happens considerably much less amongst adults who acquired medical insurance through the Reasonably priced Care Act (ACA), in keeping with new analysis in Journal of the American Coronary heart Affiliationthe Open Entry Journal of the American Coronary heart Affiliation/American Stroke Affiliation.

In a research of emergency medical companies in an city Oregon county earlier than and after the ACA, researchers famous that the incidence of cardiac arrest was considerably decrease amongst middle-aged adults after they gained medical insurance by way of the ACA, primarily by way of Medicaid

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