What Solitarius.org is about more than anything is cancer awareness and allowing visitants of this website to learn the things needed to avoid this dreadful dis-ease. In the future…. when everything changes in our medical care system and you will need an inter – explorer to navigate the system. I feel this website will be here…. to save you money, while also hopefully, beat cancer globally through knowledge.
Obamacare: will it make or break you that’s the question that will be needed answered for in the future as no real answers are being told NOW. If “common sense would prevail,” and government employees wouldn’t be exempt from this plan… so they have the chance to see the damage that the plan brings. Maybe they would see that instead of implementing a plan where it effects patients and their pocket books, maybe what they should do is subsidize doctor office expense ~ mal – practice insurance premiums; while solving the problem from the front end?
This brain child from the OBAMA Administration will still have doctors thinking they have to rob from the insurance companies to make it. While still gouging from their patients as “we” get it both ways, the best advice I have read is in todays, Parade Magazine from Frank Lalli; whom is former editor of Money magazine, and author of an upcoming book that will help people find affordable health care and provide advice reducing office cost, as well as, using services ( privatemdlabs.com ) that reduces cost tremendously.
The best advice Frank gives in this article is telling people to find ways to stay out of the doctors office (it’s one reason why I put this website on the internet… risking my livelihood.) One example… of staying out of the doctors office is immunization, and also most CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreens, Kroger or Walmart Stores offer them seasonally at half the cost of your primary care provider. Can Vitamin D… replace Flu Shots?
Also when you go to your doctor and they write a prescription drug, always ask… for a generic brand or lower cost alternative, for instance higher dosages so you can split the pill in half and save up to 50 percent. Since pharmacists can charge whatever they want for drugs, the same medication in your area could cost anywhere from $4 to $140 elsewhere.
However, you can shop wisely from GoodRX.com which tracks the prices of more than 6,000 FDA approved drugs at 70,000 pharmacies in the United States. This website can find the best places in your area and often provide discount coupons saving you an additional 80 percent. The problem with mail order and most employers don’t understand is the factors of errors, what if I go mail order and don’t get the exact amount after I paid for my pills? http://women.webmd.com/pharmacist-11/ http://www.webmd.com/404?aspxerrorpath=%2fpharmacist-11%2f
Another factor about Obamacare and having to split the bills for more and more medical expenses. Studies indicate that half all hospital bills contain significant errors in their favor. For instance: patients are typically charged for a room the day they’re discharged and it shouldn’t be. Therefore in the future it will be important to have a consumer watch dog HOTLINE, instead of having to hire a Billing Advocate which can be expensive for someone raising a family.
My personal feeling is “if ” a hospital tries this and “if ” a patient is a victim of this wrong doing the hospital should be forced into sporting the cost of correcting the error. According to a study by HealthPocket.com an insurance company rating site, the 2014, health insurance exchange will provide better benefits than 90 percent of the individual health plans sold today.
Basically “if ” your buying insurance on your own or paying more than 9.5 percent of your own income for premiums your eligible for a government incentive. Also for anyone retired another viable resource is the Medicare.gov website which allow you to compare health plans. It’s easily accessible: all you have to do is provide a zip code and than answer four easy questions for a listing of options.
Gallup – Healthways Well-Being Index
It’s Important Know Your State?
What will the cost be for the estimated 115,000 Abortions Annually?
What will the cost be for all illegal immigrants that are in America?
Comparing Canada’s Broken System Without These Factors TO OURS?
Canada Invest Into A More “Personalized Approach” To Health Care?
Kaiser Family Foundation – Health Policy Research Analysis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdHNYCRprgM
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