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1. Sedrick Welloway, on December 8, 2015 at 7:56 PM said:

   U.S. HEALTHCARE EXECS TOURING NORWAY AND SWITZERLAND TO FIND OUT HOW THEY ACHIEVED HIGHER COSTS THAN USA

   ALARMED BY NEW DATA showing the United States has slipped to to third place in rankings of the highest healthcare costs per capita in the world, a delegation of leading American healthcare executives have embarked on a whirlwind tour of Norway and Switzerland healthcare institutions to determine new best practices that the two countries have undertaken to pass the USA.

   A recently released Bloomberg News analysis indicated “U.S. residents pay an average of $9,146 a year on health care. This per-capita price tag makes the U.S. health-care system the third most expensive country for medical care in the world… surpassed only by Norway’s ($9,715 per person) and Switzerland’s ($9,276 per person).”

   “We’re here to find out what cutting edge methods the Norwegians and Swiss have put into place, that we can emulate back home,” healthcare executive Prescott H. Wadsworth told reporters. “Americans don’t like to finish in second place, let alone third place, and we’re laser focused on restoring our global healthcare position,” he added.

   Sedrick Welloway
   http://www.healthturnup.com/

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2. Derrick Smithsonian, on December 16, 2015 at 11:03 PM said:

   HABITAT FOR HUMANA PATIENT CENTERED MEDICAL HOMELESS SHELTER NEARS CAPACITY

   WITH THE MAJORITY OF primary care practices across the country not yet accredited by national organizations offering Patient Centered Medical Home certification and accreditation, many activists worry about the continued plight of the medical homeless.

   “NCQA, for example, is closing in on recognition of 11,000 medical homes, but there are over 70,000 primary care groups out there, so there are lot of medical homeless patients wandering around,” commented medical homeless activist Fiona Carson.

   Carson lauds Humana Health Plans’ recent initiative to ease the plight of the medical homeless, Habitat for Humana, whose pilot medical homeless shelter in Palm Beach, Florida is already near capacity.

   “At Habitat for Humana, we provide our members in this region who aren’t part of a patient centered medical home practice, a site where they can share in the medical home experience, a least for a little while,” says the medical homeless shelter’s executive director James Cartier.

   Cartier explains that medical homeless patients are given a simulated medical home experience during their stay at the shelter. Patients are encouraged to bring in their paper patient records, where they can hold them next to one of the shelter’s computer workstations and imagine what it would be like if the information was stored as an electronic health record.
   
   “Patients are also led on a scavenger hunt throughout the shelter by a designated care team manager, so they can better appreciate dynamics involved in the care coordination process,” Cartier adds.

   Derrick Smithsonian

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3. Bill Clough, on December 29, 2015 at 7:38 PM said:

   COUNTERFEIT DRUGS COUNTERFEITED

   FURTHER PROVING THAT anything that sells will be copied, fake pharmaceuticals are now being counterfeited.

   http://healthturnup.com/counterfeit-drugs-counterfeited

   Skyrocketing out-of-pocket costs for medications in the form of higher deductibles, co-pays and donut hole issues for seniors have driven many to the black market for their medications.

   Bill Clough

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