Employees are not commodities
The delivery of health is a commodity, is actually illness insurance and designed to be punitive. If there is anything interesting or fascinating it is as costs rise, the profit of the distribution network rises with it. Employees are an expedient group to blame for escalating insurance costs. They are not the cause, but a convenient and convincing target. Brokers are doing what...
Read MoreThe beginning: Policyholder is a commodity
Finding one’s passion in a vocation is a rare joy. Thirty years ago I was studying and working in innovative higher education. I was happily oblivious about our broken healthcare delivery system until I found myself reluctantly frequenting the oncology treatment room in the basement of Stanford Medical Center’s Day Treatment Center, encountering the ultimate irony: a healthcare...
Read MoreHealth Insurance and the States
For most Americans, market-based health insurance remains the predominant form of health coverage, although 2009 marked the lowest rate of private coverage since 1987. According to the most recent detailed census report (2009, published September 2010), of 304,280,000 total Americans: “The number of people with health insurance decreased to 253.6 million in 2009 from 255.1 million in 2008....
Read MoreMindfulness Meditation
Mindfulness Meditation Training Changes Brain Structure in Eight Weeks ScienceDaily (Jan. 21, 2011) — Participating in an 8-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy and stress. In a study that will appear in the January 30 issue of Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, a team led by Massachusetts General...
Read MoreThe Truth and Consequences of Repeal
Get ready for more theater on Capitol Hill. House Republicans plan to push through legislation this week to repeal the health care reform law. In deference to the new vows of civility, the tone of the debate may be a bit more restrained. But Republicans have already said that they will not strip the word “killing” from the bill — which is titled, “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care...
Read MorePraying With the Office Chaplain
Marisol Corrales, an operations manager for a Dallas housecleaning service, doesn’t attend church regularly or see herself as a religious person, she says. But she calls regularly on a workplace chaplain provided by her employer whenever she is worried about her family or stressed over problems on the job.Praying and talking with the Rev. John Salas gives her hope and peace of mind, she says;...
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