Podcast: How Money Impacts Mental Illness
In this episode, our hosts discuss how the amount of money and resources a person has influences their mental health care. Listen now to hear how Gabe and Michelle tackle this difficult social discussion — and have a couple laughs along the way.
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“It’s so hard to get help with mental illness if you have no money, and that’s not ok.” – Michelle Hammer
Highlights from ‘Money and Mental Illness’ Episode
[1:00] How does money impact people with mental illness?
[3:00] Michelle’s epiphany on the subway.
[5:30] The difference between mental health and physical health.
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Source: World of Psychology - August 12, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gabe Howard Tags: A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Personal Policy and Advocacy Source Type: blogs
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Health care took center stage on both nights of the most recent Democratic debates, a reminder of how worried Americans are about getting and affording health care. Their concerns are not unfounded. More than 30 million do not have health insurance, which puts them at greater risk of illness, and possibly death. A new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research shows that 15,600 deaths between 2014 and 2017 could have been avoided if all states expanded Medicaid.
(Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - August 10, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Shanoor Seervai, David Blumenthal, M.D. Source Type: blogs
Off the Couch, Onto the Stage: My First, Only and Not-So-Great Presidential Debate
This article originally appeared on Forbes here. (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 5, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Democratic Debates Health Policy Politics Medicare For All Michael Millenson Source Type: blogs
Having health coverage isn ’t the same as being covered
Something like one in seven people living in the U.S. have no health care insurance. In fact, the number of uninsured people has grown by 7 million since 2016. These numbers are atrocious. Embarrassing. Shameful, actually, in a country as wealthy as ours. We need to recommit ourselves to guaranteeing people access to affordable health care insurance. And […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 2, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/peter-ubel" rel="tag" > Peter Ubel, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Policy Public Health & Washington Watch Source Type: blogs
Health Reform Job One: Stop the Gouging! | Part 2
By BOB HERTZ
We Need Legal Assaults On The Greediest Providers!
When a patient is hospitalized, or diagnosed with a deadly disease, they often have no choice about the cost of their treatment.
They are legally helpless, and vulnerable to price gouging.
We need more legal protection of patients. In some cases we need price controls.
Next in this three-part series, I discuss how we could challenge Big Pharma by lessening regulation of generic drugs, having the government take over production and establishing price review boards.
Assault Phase Three – Challenge Big Pharma
Step One – Less Regulation of...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 25, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Health Reform Job One: Stop the Gouging! | Part 1
We Need Legal Assaults On The Greediest Providers!
By BOB HERTZ
When a patient is hospitalized, or diagnosed with a deadly disease, they often have no choice about the cost of their treatment.
They are legally helpless, and vulnerable to price gouging.
Medicare offers decent protection — i.e. limits on balance billing, and no patient liability if a claim is denied.
But under age 65, it is a Wild West — especially for emergency care, and drugs and devices. The more they charge, the more they make. Even good health insurance does not offer complete financial insulation.
We need more legal p...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 24, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Economics Health Policy Patients Bob Hertz health reform Price controls price gouging Source Type: blogs
Reducing Healthcare Costs; Surgery at a Selected Hospital and Pharma Tourism
Individuals and self-insured companies have adopted various strategies to reduce the rising cost of healthcare for themselves and their employees. A recent article discussed howWalmart was flying employees who were candidates for particular surgical procedures to selected, distant hospitals for evaluation (see:Walmart Flies Employees to Top Hospitals for Surgeries in a Bid to Cut Healthcare Costs). Below is an excerpt from it:Walmart ’s answer [to rising healthcare costs] is its six-year-oldCenters of Excellence (COE) program. In partnership with third-party administrator Health Design Plus (HDP), Walmart directly contra...
Source: Lab Soft News - July 15, 2019 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Cost of Healthcare Healthcare Innovations Healthcare Insurance Medical Consumerism Pharmaceutical Industry Public Health Quality of Care Source Type: blogs
Patients' Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Costs Rising; Expect More Consumer Backlash
The high cost of healthcare in the U.S. has not provoked more of a reaction from consumers thus far because the majority of them have health insurance, governmental such as Medicare or private through employers. This situation is changing however due to the growth of high-deductible health plans (see:Enrollment in High-Deductible Health Plans Continues to Grow). Here is a quote from this latter article: "Among adults aged 18-64 with employer-based health coverage from 2007 through 2017, enrollment in HDHPs [high-deductible health plan] coupled with a HSA [health savings account] grew from 4.2% to 18.9%. Without ...
Source: Lab Soft News - July 6, 2019 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Cost of Healthcare Healthcare Business Hospital Financial Public Health Source Type: blogs
ACS surgery thread reply
Discussion Forum regarding recent AMA statement on health care as a human right. The objectivism trolls had hijacked the thread. This was my poorly received response:Dear DrX(and those of similar vein)-I must respond to your impassioned excoriation of the idea that healthcare is a "human right" (scare quotes rendered as a show of respect to you) in the name of the dignity of surgeon labor.Your initial salvo is an interesting mashup/admixture of both the Declaration of Independence (We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain u...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - June 15, 2019 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
Why is it So Hard to Get Help for My Addiction?
Reasons It Is Hard to Get Help for My Addiction
Breaking free from the prison that addiction holds you in is very difficult. It can often be a long, bumpy road to recovery because long-lasting sobriety takes a lot of effort. It can make many people stop to wonder: Why is it so hard to get help for my addiction?
Roadblocks of Getting Help for My Addiction
One of the many reasons you may be thinking, “why is it so hard to get help for my addiction?” is because there can be many roadblocks in the way. Some of these roadblocks include life obligations, the detox process, and the financial cost of treatment.
Life Obligation...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - June 14, 2019 Category: Addiction Authors: Jaclyn Uloth Tags: Addiction Addiction Recovery Addiction Stories Addiction Treatment and Program Resources Drug Treatment Substance Abuse addiction help admissions alcohol detox call for help drug detox medical detox medicated-assisted detox presc Source Type: blogs
Medicare for All and Industry Consolidation
This article is adapted from a forthcoming book. (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 13, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Medicare Ken Terry Medicare For All Source Type: blogs
B. Hussein Obama saved you a bundle
There seems to have been some question about whether the ACA actually reduced health care costs. The answer,from the Office of the Actuary of the Department of Health and Human Services, is that it cumulatively from 2010 to 2017 the ACA reduced health care spending a total of $2.3 trillion. Savings in 2017 alone were $650 billion.No doubt this will be a headline story at Fox News.Update: A reader has drawn my attention to certain mendacious comments by industrial shills on Dr. Emanuel ' s article. So let me make a couple of things clear:In some of the state exchanges, premiums increased after the first year of the ACA. Thi...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 6, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Private Health Insurance Organizations Shouldn ’t Dictate Quality of Care
By LYNLY JEANLOUIS
Health insurance companies are standing
in the way of many patients receiving affordable, quality healthcare. Insurance
companies have been denying patient claims for medical care, all while increasing
monthly premiums for most Americans. Many of the nation’s largest healthcare payers
are private “for-profit” companies that are focused on generating profits
through the healthcare system. Through a rigorous approval/denial system, health
insurance companies can dictate the type care patients receive. In some cases,
this has resulted in patients foregoing life-saving treatments or procedures. &nbs...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 7, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Health insurance Lynly Jeanlouis private health insurance Quality improvement Quality of care Source Type: blogs
Race-Based Medicine Can Blind Doctors from Social Injustice
By PHUOC LE MD
Fifteen years ago, as a medical student, I learned a
terrifying lesson about blindly using race-based medicine. I was taking care of
Mr. Smith, a thin man in his late 60s, who entered the hospital with severe
back pain and a fever. As the student on the hospital team, I spent over an
hour interviewing him, asking relevant questions about his medical and social history,
the medications he took, and the details of his symptoms. I learned Mr. Smith
was a veteran who ran into tough times that left him chronically homeless,
uninsured, and suffering from hypertension and diabetes. I performed a complete
physica...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 26, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health disparities Medical Practice health inequities Phuoc Le race-based medicine Source Type: blogs
The powerful phrase that ’s ruining medicine
Within the clinics, hospital corridors, and halls of medicine, a new phrase has emerged and taken hold of the practice of medicine. Whenever confronted with the challenging, inconvenient, undesirable, underinsured or maybe when just overwhelmed, health care personnel have begun to utter the phrase “I’m not comfortable with… ” Upon the utterance, all responsibility to […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 20, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/jackson-b-salvant-jr" rel="tag" > Jackson B. Salvant, Jr., MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Source Type: blogs
