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Pat Elliott Talks Further About Her Cancer, Health Insurance

by francine 10.15.2009

What you really want to know, and are too polite to ask, is how sick am I and what’s ahead? Yesterday I got some answers and am happy to share them with you. I’ve been on Gleevec for one month, and yesterday’s test results show that it’s WORKING. It wasn’t a given that it would, [...]

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Insurance Companies Are Already Courting E-Patients

by francine 10.06.2009

I spent the day at Health 2.0 conference in the Bay Area. This is the third year of the conference, and it has grown from a fringe group of early adopters and application developers to a bona fide e-patient movement, probably spurred by the broken health care system. Health plans already know that whatever versions [...]

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If You Like Your Health Insurance You Can Keep It

by francine 10.05.2009

Here’s what happens when a healthy, young, employed person with health insurance tries to use it.Reposted from my friend Howard Lindzon’s Facebook notes I was hanging with my buddy Ian over the weekend who was recounting the horror stories of cancer and the seemingly equally difficult fight for his already paid health insurance. I asked [...]

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British Doctors and Patients Refute Lies About NHS

by francine 09.14.2009

Dear Senator Kerry, Your reported call for “lies” about health care reform to be refuted is essential and requires an urgent response. To that end, may we – British health professionals and patients – respectfully expose those “lies” which are about our National Health Service, a service which our experience shows to work successfully for [...]

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