Category: Book Review
Book Review: If last year’s attacks on the health-care reform law seemed familiar, it’s because you’ve seen same the tactics before, writes Wendell Potter in his new book “Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans”.
In Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure, Dr. Offit examines the the theories of those who hold that vaccines cause autism.
Like the rest of the country, Washington State has a health-care crisis: costs are out of control, quality of care is uneven, and many state residents go without coverage. In “Dear Governor: About That Healthcare Crisis“, Edmonds editor and publisher D.J. Wilson has put together a highly readable collection of articles by 20 people with [...]
President-elect Barack Obama’s choice of Tom Daschle to head up the Department of Health and Human Services and to be his point man on health-care reform suggests that, despite the economic turmoil and the challenges of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the incoming administration plans to move ahead on health-care reform quickly. First in [...]
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Lost in translation: Lack of trained interpreters can lead to medical errors
Interpreter services at hospitals and other medical settings are often inadequate, forcing family members, including children, to step in, or the task falls to medical staff members who may not speak the language well.
Some insurers deny ER coverage to people who have been drinking
Laws in more than half the states permit insurers to deny payment for medical services related to alcohol or drug use. Faced with the prospect of not getting paid for care, some ER personnel sidestep the problem by simply not testing patients’ blood or urine for alcohol.
Travel insurance can protect your wallet — and your health on vacation
Think your regular health insurance policy will cover you if you get into medical trouble overseas?
Don’t bet on it.
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