BlueCross Rates Soar 26 Percent

by | Jul 2, 2008 | Learn

Today’s Oregonian has a story by Bill Graves about the continued dramatic rise in health insurance premiums. It begins: A 26 percent rate increase by Oregon’s largest health insurer underscores the need to overhaul the state’s health system and bring...

Most Doctors Are Not Using Electronic Health Records

by | Jun 19, 2008 | Learn

An article in today’s NY Times points out that when it comes to electronic health records we have far to go despite the benefits. Here’s an excerpt: A government-sponsored survey of the use of computerized patient records by doctors points to two seemingly...

Why Americans are No Longer the Tallest

by | Jun 16, 2008 | Learn

NaturalNews.com has an interesting article on average height as an indicator of overall population health. I had assumed humans had continually gotten taller over time, but that is not the case. The main takeaway is that it appears that trends in height for a certain...

Bernanke Says Rising Health Care Costs A Strain

by | Jun 16, 2008 | Learn

An AP article carried by the NY Times covered Ben Bernanke’s testimony at a summit on health care reform organized by the Senate Finance Committee on June 16, 2008, in Washington, D.C. It begins: Bolstering the performance of the health care system is one of the...

Uninsured Oregonians Flock to Emergency Rooms

by | Apr 16, 2008 | Learn

According to The Oregonian, “Cuts in the Oregon Health Plan led to ‘an abrupt and sustained increase’ in the uninsured using hospital emergency rooms, a new study reports.” From the report published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, the...