Blog - Elaina George

Do Hospital interests Coalign with the Hippocratic Oath?

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Exposing the Myths on Vaping E-Cigarettes

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Climate Change: Propaganda or Crisis?

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How is the Medical Field Adapting to Gender Identification?

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Statement About The Executive Order On Price Transparency And Quality In Healthcare

President Trump's executive order on price transparency is revolutionary and is the first important step to returning medicine to the patient and their doctor. With this order, the patient will be empowered to be come a healthcare consumer. The middlemen will be removed from the doctor's office along with the inflated prices they encourage. -

Life After The Affordable Care Act: What’s Next?

After the ruling by Judge O’Connor, the proponents of The Affordable Care Act plan to appeal the verdict. They are claiming that repeal will mean the end of coverage for patients who currently have plans, and that the repeal will mean the end of coverage for pre-existing conditions. Both are simply not correct. What does

The Antidote To The High Cost Of Healthcare Is Healthcare Consumerism

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Healthcare Facts Count

A recent Pew study concluded that 60% of Americans believe that the government should be responsible for providing healthcare coverage. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/10/03/most-continue-to-say-ensuring-health-care-coverage-is-governments-responsibility/ The first thing that people need to ask is was the methodology used to perform the study a valid way to extrapolate what over 300 million people really want? And second, can accurate conclusions

Tags: ACA, Affordable healthcare, Congress health care reform, Free Market Medicine, Healthcare Consumerism, High healthcare costs, Medicare for all, Obamacare, Single payor|

The Doctor Shortage: Fact or Fiction

The Association of American Medical Colleges in a recent study has projected that there will be a doctor shortage between 42,000 and 120,300 by 2030. This is a stunning number when you break down the fact that the shortage will affect primary care doctors (14,800 - 49,300); specialists (33,800 - 72,700); and surgical sub specialists

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Do You Know What Your Doctor Does?

The American healthcare system is at a crossroads. Over the past eight years there has been an acceleration in the movement towards automation, centralization and regulation in an attempt to increase efficiency, lower cost and increase access.Towards that end, there has been an exponential growth in large hospital systems which have co-opted and in some

Tags: Artificial intelligence in healthcare, cash pay medical practices, cash pay medicine, Corporate medicine, Medical cost sharing|