Affordable Health Insurance Information Guide
Product Description
Since 1986, Slee s Health Care Terms has served as a guide to nonmedical terminology essential to understanding the U.S. healthcare industry. Now with over 8,000 non-medical words, phrases, and acronyms related to the healthcare industry, Slee’s Health Care Terms is the leading healthcare dictionary available today. This multidisciplinary healthcare lexicon covers the broad range of topics that turn up in every public policy or hospital board discussion. It covers f… More >>
Product Description
As we age, many of us will face the responsibility of providing long-term care either for ourselves or for other loved ones, and we can no longer take for granted that the government will pay for our health care costs if and when we cannot. Long-Term Care gives you a no-nonsense look at the precarious states of our health care and social security systems, the alarming truths behind the bipartisan bickering over health care reforms, and what our future will hold if w… More >>
Product Description
Will the 2010 Health Care Act cost you more or save you money? Will your health insurance premiums go up? If everyone will be required to have health insurance, what happens if you can’t afford the premiums? Will Medicare coverage and costs change? Will you need to budget more or less for health care in retirement? And, finally, where can you find answers if you have questions like these?
Product Description
Recently enacted laws make breathtaking changes to the nation’s health care system. Health care reform affects us all. Understandably few people are inclined to wade through thousands of pages of congressional legislation. But, love it or hate it, you should know what’s in it. This short book is a comprehensive, semi-technical, section-by-section summary in plain English. … More >>
Product Description
Addresses the serious problem of rising health care costs…. More >>
Product Description
Financing Health Care is an indispensable guide to the health care reforms now underway in many industrialised countries, as technological advances and demographic changes cause the gap between the demand for health services and available funding to widen. Financing Health Care contains a comprehensive discussion of the health care systems and reforms in twelve developed countries and includes projections of the growing gap between demand for health care and… More >>
> In case you have not seen these interesting statistics:
>
>
>
> A recent “Investor’s Business Daily” article provided very
> interesting statistics from a survey by the United Nations
> International Health Organization.
>
> Percentage of men and women who survived a cancer five years
> after diagnosis:
>
> U.S. 65%
>
> England 46%
>
> Canada 42%
>
> Percentage of patients diagnosed with diabetes who received
> treatment within six months:
>
> U.S. 93%
>
> England 15%
>
> Canada 43%
>
> Percentage of seniors needing hip replacement who received it
> within six months:
>
> U.S. 90%
>
> England 15%
>
> Canada 43%
>
> Percentage referred to a medical specialist who see one within
> one month:
>
> U.S. 77%
>
> England 40%
>
> Canada 43%
>
> Number of MRI scanners (a prime diagnostic tool) per million people:
>
> U.S. 71
>
> England 14
>
> Canada 18
>
> Percentage of seniors (65+), with low income, who say they are in
> “excellent health”:
>
> U.S. 12%
>
> England 2%
>
> Canada 6%
>
>
> I don’t know about you, but I don’t want “Universal Healthcare”
> comparable to England or Canada .
>
> Moreover, it was Sen. Harry Reid who said, “Elderly Americans
> must learn to accept the inconveniences of old age.”
(is this a death panel?)
>
> SHIP HIM TO CANADA OR ENGLAND !
>
> He is “elderly” himself but be sure to remember his health
> insurance is different from yours as Congress has their own high-
> end coverage! He will never have to learn to accept
> “inconveniences”!!!
>
> AND THE WINNER IS VERY INTERESTING!
>
> The percentage of each past president’s cabinet who had worked in
> the private business sector prior to their appointment to the
> cabinet. You know what the private business sector is… a real
> life business, not a government job. Here are the percentages.
>
> T. Roosevelt…….. 38%
>
> Taft…………………40%
>
> Wilson …………….52%
>
> Harding………………49%
>
> Coolidge………….. 48%
>
> Hoover…………….. 42%
>
> F. Roosevelt……… 50%
>
> Truman………………50%
>
> Eisenhower……….. 57%
>
> Kennedy………….. 30%
>
> Johnson……………..47%
>
> Nixon………………. 53%
>
> Ford………………… 42%
>
> Carter……………… 32%
>
> Reagan……………….56%
>
> GH Bush…………….. 51%
>
> Clinton …………….. 39%
>
> GW Bush……………. 55%
>
> And the winner of the Chicken Dinner is: Obama 8%!!!
Compression Plugin made by Cork Tiles
Copyright © 2012 Health Insurance Comparisons