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The majority of doctors and scientific researchers now acknowledge a link between diet and cancer. Wanna guess how many of the United States’ national cancer network websites contain any food and nutrition information for cancer patients?
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It’s been three years since the Affordable Care Act was passed, bringing health insurance coverage to millions of Americans who would otherwise be a single illness or accident away from financial ruin. And who wants to guess how conservative Republican Michele Bachmann celebrated? By spouting the same old false facts and hyperbole of course. More
The Obama administration issued a final rule Wednesday that mental health care is included in the “essential health benefits” that must be covered by most health insurance plans beginning. It’s a move that could bring mental health care access to an additional 32 million people in 2014, the administration says. More
It’s a little surreal how little conventional doctors spend talking with patients about nutrition. But nutrition science hasn’t historically been a big part of med school, even if it is a big factor in chronic disease. More
The future is now! A company called HealthSpot is setting up small, walk-in telemedicine kiosks in non-traditional settings like retail stores.
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More companies and private insurance plans are implementing or seriously considering “selling health insurance by the pound,” as MarketWatch puts it — making workers with high BMIs and chronic conditions like high blood pressure and cholesterol pay extra for health care coverage. More
In an effort to reduce our national debt and cut spending, Republicans are renewing their push to cut Medicaid. Meanwhile, Democrats are not budging on this and refuse to cut this government health care program that serves 60 million low-income Americans. So what exactly is the right answer here? More
Everyone’s been writing about the new state-by-state health rankings released yesterday by the United Health Foundation. The best 5-word summary of the 2012 American Health Rankings might be “Americans are living longer, sicker.” It seems Gen X, Gen Y and the next few generations will be the first to grow up with both an expectation of obscene longevity and habits/unhealthy lifestyles that make us sicker, earlier, than any previous generation*. More
Psychologists are having trouble drumming up business not because psychology has a “branding problem” but because they refuse to let go of outdated talk therapy models and embrace evidence-based mental health treatments, writes Maia Szalavitz at Time. As someone with a little experience in the mental health care system, I couldn’t agree more. More
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A recent deadly outbreak of fungal meningitis, which has been linked to unsterile steroid injections that have been distributed across the United States by a specialty compound pharmacy has made one thing clear: Something isn’t right. One woman has already sued the New England Compounding Center for damages–and with 170 other reported cases so far, it’s likely more lawsuits will follow. Which is a good time because, in times like this, it’s important to hold those accountable who break laws and, in doing so, gamble with the health of thousands. More
I’m confused about health care. And I was hoping to get some straight answers in last night’s presidential debate. But, even though Mitt Romney was the decided winner according to post-debate polls, he still didn’t give us a clear idea of how he was going to fix our very broken $2.8 trillion healthcare system. More
Being uninsured in America is a pretty awful feeling. Saddled with a perpetual fear that something will go wrong, it makes every day feel like it could end in catastrophe. Regardless of the reason you’re without health care–maybe you’re young, or you’re underemployed, or you’re a freelancer (like this gal), or or your work just doesn’t offer options (many don’t)–it’s downright terrifying. But until our health care system gets itself sorted out, there are ways to get care that is pretty affordable, accessible, and, while not perfect, gets the job done. More
Apparently Mitt Romney doesn’t realllly want to be our next president. Because if he did, he wouldn’t go around saying stupid things (even if they are caught on hidden camera) about half of Americans being a bunch of freeloaders who think they are “entitled” to food and healthcare, among other things. More
As an uninsured young person, I’m pretty into the Affordable Care Act (called the ACA, or also, originally derisively but now fairly universally, Obamacare). In 2014, it will help me get actual health benefits–something I haven’t had in years. But it’s already making a huge difference in the lives of millions of my peers, who, according to a report out yesterday from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, are more likely to be insured this year than they were last year. More
