What If American Medical Care Ran Air Travel
The American medical care system is often called one of the best in the world. In some ways, it is a fair observation. We have greater access to state of the art medical technology than almost any other nation. Our doctors are skilled and well-trained. Most communities have access to a hospital. Major diseases and injuries are [...]
5 Must-Fix Items in the Affordable Care Act: Higher Insurance Costs
Supporters of the Affordable Care Act told us the law would make medical care and health insurance less expensive. Advocates said there were several reasons. More people will have insurance, including a lot more healthy young people. Competition created by health insurance exchanges will bring prices down. More people would gain access to preventive care. However, other parts of the [...]
read moreFive Must-Fix Items in the Affordable Care Act – The Small Business Deductible
Tom, Robin and Susan are neighbors. Tom is a self-employed consultant. Robin works as a senior manager at a large company. Susan is an executive at a small, growing firm with 30 employees. In 2014, can they select the same health insurance plan options under the Affordable Care Act? Simple, right? Beginning in 2014, the Affordable [...]
read moreClearing up the International Accreditation Noise
There is a lot of noise about accreditation in media and marketing surrounding international medical travel. With few clear voices, sorting the message from the madness is challenging. Accreditation, whether regulatory or voluntary, is simply a floor above which a hospital must work. That there are no “good, better, best” connotations implied or expressed in [...]
read moreInternational Medical Accreditation Unwound
We often see the comment “We only use JCI accredited hospitals” on the websites of and marketing brochures of medical tourism facilitators. I always enjoy reading that statement, knowing that the company either doesn’t understand accreditation or doesn’t really believe the comment. Accreditation, put simply, is a means by which the medical community evaluates administration, operations, [...]
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