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How to Manage Insulin-Dependent Diabetes on the Cheap (and do it well)

By endodoc July 3, 2017 Diabetes Mellitus, Health Care Systems/Delivery No Comments

Not long ago, I wrote an entry about the extraordinarily high costs of insulin. What I didn’t do in that entry was to provide an approach to therapy that could…

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Why Does Insulin Cost So Much? Did I Answer The Question Posed in My Last Entry?

By endodoc August 11, 2016 Diabetes Mellitus, Health Care Systems/Delivery No Comments

First, I apologize for the long hiatus between entries.  I have had trouble finding anything worth writing about; it has been mostly a rehash of what we already know.  I…

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Why Does Insulin Cost So Much?

By endodoc May 10, 2016 Diabetes Mellitus, Health Care Systems/Delivery No Comments

At 11 o’clock on the morning of Monday,  January 23, 1922, a young Canadian boy, Leonard Thompson, made history.  He had been diagnosed with diabetes, which at that time was…

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HIPAA: Facts Versus Fiction

By endodoc September 5, 2015 Health Care Systems/Delivery No Comments

There was a very interesting article in the  NYT about 6 weeks ago (Tuesday, July 21. 2015, p D2) about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, widely know as…

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Are The High Costs Of Diabetes Care Reasonable?

By endodoc April 6, 2014 Diabetes Mellitus, Health Care Systems/Delivery No Comments

FYI:  There is a very interesting (and long) article in the NYT today that is must reading if you are wondering why medical care costs so much these days.  The…

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Health care costs: why do some drugs cost so much?

By endodoc March 22, 2014 Health Care Systems/Delivery No Comments

I read an interesting article in the NYT today, entitled “Lawmakers attack cost of new hepatitis drug,” written by Andrew Pollack.  The article was about a new drug used to…

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What’s in a Number? Part 2

By endodoc November 23, 2013 Cardiovascular disease, Diabetes Mellitus, Health Care Systems/Delivery, Lab Tests No Comments

A few days ago, I wrote an entry about the fiasco surrounding the new cholesterol guidelines recommended by the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC). …

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What’s in a Number? Random Thoughts About the New Cholesterol Guidelines

By endodoc November 20, 2013 Health Care Systems/Delivery, Lab Tests No Comments

If you haven’t heard about the new cholesterol guidelines published last week by the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC), you could not have been listening…

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Can’t Understand How the New Health Care Law Works?

By endodoc October 5, 2013 Health Care Systems/Delivery No Comments

On October 1, 2013, it became possible to sign up for a health insurance plan on the health care exchanges as part of the Affordable Care Act or ACA (aka ObamaCare). …

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The US Health Care System Is Killing Us: Do Physicians Have A Moral Imperative To Fix Things?

By endodoc June 7, 2013 Health Care Systems/Delivery No Comments

Over the past few years, I have written a fair number of entries about the US health care system, but I am always uneasy when I “stray” from specific endocrinology…

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