Forthcoming Longevity Industry Conferences, March to May 2020
If you are interested in joining or investing in the growing longevity industry, there are now a fair few conferences taking place each year at which it is possible to meet people, get involved, and make inroads on building a network. Since this is still a young industry, it remains a very friendly, close-knit community in which many of the participants have been involved in research or patient advocacy in the aging field for quite some time. Aging research is in many ways still a small field of research in which everyone tends to know everyone else in the inner circles, and the present longevity industry is just the first...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 27, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
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At the end of last year, we wrote about the state of play for federal legislation on surprise medical bills. At the time, two bills had emerged from congressional committees: S. 1895, approved by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, and H.R. 2328, approved by the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The two committees announced a compromise proposal in December.
(Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - February 21, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jack Hoadley, Beth Fuchs, Kevin Lucia Source Type: blogs
An unnecessary divide: the impact of pensions taxation on NHS trust leaders
This report suggests concerns over taxation of pensions may lead to an exodus of NHS leaders in the next two years. It includes survey findings indicating almost half of all trust leaders plan to, or are considering, leaving the NHS because of the pensions crisis. Nine in ten respondents to the survey said that they and their organisation were concerned that differential arrangements for different staff groups – for example offering a solution to senior doctors and nurses but not managers - would also create divisions and harm culture and morale.ReportNHS Providers - news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 27, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
January is Financial Wellness Month: Here Are 3 Tips To Start The Year Off Financially Strong
You're reading January is Financial Wellness Month: Here Are 3 Tips To Start The Year Off Financially Strong, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
2020 is not only
the start of a new year—it also marks a new decade full of opportunities for
growth, improvement and forward momentum. One specific area in which many
people could stand to improve is financial management. January is Financial
Wellness Month, making it an ideal time to work toward this goal.
Almost 60% of
Americans consider debt to be a major ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - January 25, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Erin Falconer Tags: featured money and finance productivity tips self education self-improvement success Uncategorized financial wellness savings self improvement Source Type: blogs
Two Brothers Fight over Mother ’ s Advance Directive in New York Court (Lester v. Lester)
91-year-old Arline Lester is being treated at New York's Mount Sinai Medical Center, where she is dependent on a ventilator and feeding tube. Her two sons disagree on the right treatment plan.
Son Kyle Lester, wants his mother removed from all life-saving machines in accordance with her 1991 advance directive.
But son Edward Lester said his mother wrote on November 13, 2019 that she wanted to revoke her advance directive and that she wanted to live.
In court papers, Kyle accuses Edward of keeping their mom alive against her will so he can stay in her Long Beach home and “plunder” her assets, including the ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - January 7, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Top Wealth Is Business Assets
Chris EdwardsAnti-wealth fever grips the Democratic Party and seems sure to carry into the election year. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are leading the billionaire bashing binge, but even rising star Pete Buttigieg says that he is “all for a wealth tax.”Leftist politicians dish out lots of rhetoric about wealth, but they seem ignorant of how it is created and used. They assume that top wealth is just expensive toys such as luxury yachts.Actually, most wealth of the wealthy is business assets, not personal assets, as discussedin my op-ed inThe Hill today. The chart below shows the components ofwealth of the riches...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 18, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
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In September, we wrote about the state of play for federal legislation on surprise medical bills. At the time, two bills had emerged from congressional committees: S. 1895, approved by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), and H.R. 2328, approved by the House Energy and Commerce (E&C) Committee. Twenty-eight states have enacted consumer protections to address surprise medical bills — 13 of them meet our standard for comprehensive protection.
(Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - December 17, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jack Hoadley, Beth Fuchs, Kevin Lucia Source Type: blogs
Guerilla Billing – Missing the Gorilla in the Midst
By ANISH KOKA, MD
No one likes getting bills. But there is something that stinks particularly spectacularly about bills for healthcare that arrive despite carrying health insurance. Patients pay frequently expensive monthly premiums with the expectation that their insurance company will be there for them when illness befalls them.
But the problem being experienced by an
increasing number of patients is going to a covered (in-network) facility for
medical care, and being seen by an out-of-network physician. This happens because
not all physicians working in hospitals serve the same master, and thus may not
all have ag...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 26, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Economics Hospitals Medicare Patients Physicians Primary Care The Business of Health Care Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, November 4th 2019
In this study, we hypothesized that moderately and chronically reducing ACh could attenuate the deleterious effects of aging on NMJs and skeletal muscles. To test this hypothesis, we analyzed NMJs and muscle fibers from heterozygous transgenic mice with reduced expression of the vesicular ACh transporter (VAChT), VKDHet mice, which present with approximately 30% less synaptic ACh compared to control mice.
Because ACh is constitutively decreased in VKDHet, we first analyzed developing NMJs and muscle fibers. We found no obvious morphological or molecular differences between NMJs and muscle fibers of VKDHet and contro...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 3, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
A Perspective on Longevity Biotech Investment from James Peyer of Kronos BioVentures
James Peyer, formerly of Apollo Ventures and now at the larger Kronos BioVentures, has a range of interesting views on the new and growing longevity biotechnology industry. Apollo Ventures was one of the earlier longevity-focused funds to emerge from the comparatively small community of scientists, patient advocates, and investors enthusiastic to accelerate progress towards the treatment of aging as a medical condition. The presentation here was given earlier this year at the Ending Age-Related Diseases conference organized by the Life Extension Advocacy Foundation.
In the matter of creating new medical therapies, t...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 30, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
$2 Trillion+ in New Taxes for Single Payer, or $50 Billion to Strengthen ObamaCare? Next Question, Please
By BOB HERTZ
It is not wise for Democrats to spend all their energy
debating Single Payer health care solutions.
None of their single player
plans has much chance to pass in 2020, especially under the limited
reconciliation process. In the words of Ezra Klein, “If Democrats don’t have a
plan for the filibuster, they don’t really have a plan for ambitious health
care reform.”
Yet while we debate Single Payer – or, even if it somehow
passed, wait for it to be installed — millions of persons are still hurting
under our current system.
We can help these people now!
Here are six practical ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 23, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Medicare Obamacare Politics Affordable Care Act American healthcare Bob Hertz Medicare For All Single payer US Health Care System Source Type: blogs
Welfare State Causes Wealth Inequality —Euro Experience
Chris EdwardsDemocrats running for president are condemning wealth inequality while calling for an increase in social spending. But expanding social spending would magnify wealth inequality, not reduce it, because it would displace private wealth accumulation by lower- and middle-income households.Evidence comes froma study by Pirmin Fessler and Martin Schurz for the European Central Bank. The authors explore the relationship between government social spending and wealth distribution in 13 European countries using a survey database of 62,000 households. The database contains household balance sheet information.Regression a...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 18, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
The Economic Consequences of Sen. Sanders' Stock Confiscation Plan
Ryan BourneBernie Sanders wouldconfiscate 20 percent ownership stakes in 22,000 companies, distributing the stocks to workers through shared employee ownership funds. His “Corporate Accountability Plan,” announced yesterday, should lay to bedany lingering doubts that “democratic socialism” is just about social democracy, or a bigger welfare state. Rather, it amounts to a fundamental attempt to re-order the American economy through federal government edicts.Under Sanders ’ “Democratic Employee Ownership Funds,” all publicly traded companies and those with at least $100 million in annual revenue would have to c...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 15, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ryan Bourne Source Type: blogs
The Opportunity in Disruption, Part 4: Success Strategies for Provider and Payer CFOs
By JOE FLOWER
The system is unstable. We are already seeing the precursor waves of massive and multiple disturbances to come. Disruption at key leverage points, new entrants, shifting public awareness and serious political competition cast omens and signs of a highly changed future.
So what’s the frequency? What are the smart bets for a strategic chief financial officer at a payer or provider facing such a bumpy ride? They are radically different from today’s dominant consensus strategies. In this five-part series, Joe Flower lays out the argument, the nature of the instability, and the best-bet strategies.
Pr...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 30, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
