Healing the American Health Care System Fellow Mature Market Experts, last week we agreed that we have a sick care system that rewards those who treat us rather than heal us or keep us healthy. So how do we convert a sick care system to a health care system? Let’s go back to the beginning, [...]
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Sick Care, You Get What You Pay For
In America it generally holds true that you get what you pay for. When you pay more for something you get more of it. How about health care? As a nation we spend about 16% of our annual income, our gross national product, on health care. That’s more than all other countries spend. Are we [...]
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Dr. Gary Applebaum, M.D. I’m pleased to announce we have a new teammate on board Mature Market Experts. Dr. Gary Applebaum, M.D., is not just one of the nation’s premier experts on geriatrics; he has also been a valued friend over the last 16 years. I met Gary at Erickson Retirement Communities, where he was [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Mature Market Experts Stat of The Day: Insurance
About 15% of the 45–64 age group do not have health insurance (that’s more than 100,000 individuals), and yet only 1% of those aged 65+ (40,000) do not have health insurance. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, www.census.gov
Read the rest of this entry »“It doesn’t have a Wienie”
Excellent post by Mark Ramsey on his blog Hear 2.0 about Walt Disney (which I found through Seth Godin’s blog). Apparently, Disney used this term, “It doesn’t have a Wienie,” whenever he felt the magic was missing from a project. Or more succinctly, wienies are ”the something extra” you add when the customer or audience [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Google enters the electronic health records business. Will seniors benefit
Today’s Baltimore Sun had a story on a partnership between Erickson Retirement Communities and three Baltimore-area hospital systems (Johns Hopkins Medicine, MedStar Health, and Maryland Medical System) to pioneer a health exchange systems that would give doctors and emergency room physicians quick access to patients’ medical histories. The non-profit start-up they’ve created, Chesapeake Regional Information [...]
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