America Out Loud PULSE: Hacking Electronic Health Records, Medicare Dis-Advantage, and Measles with Twila Brase, RN, PHN

From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast with Twila Brase, RN, PHN –https://www.americaoutloud.news/hacking-electronic-health-records-medicare-disadvantages-and-measles/ Hacking into electronic databases has become child’s play. Since 2018, the Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights tracked a 256 percent increase in large data breaches involving hacking and a 264 percent increase in ransomware. With ransomware, the database […]

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America Out Loud PULSE: Are Medical Boards Helping or Hurting Patients?

From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast with Kelly Sutton, MD – https://www.americaoutloud.news/are-medical-boards-helping-or-hurting-patients/ The patient-physician relationship is supposed to be sacred, as Hippocrates explained thousands of years ago. Medicine has entered a brave new world of third parties (insurers) telling us what to do. Various laws, particularly in California, are squelching choice for patients and […]

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America Out Loud PULSE: Wendell Potter Is the Insurance Industry’s Worst Nightmare!

From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast with Wendell Potter – https://www.americaoutloud.news/wendell-potter-is-the-insurance-industrys-worst-nightmare/ When I was in law school, the first elective I signed up for was Insurance Law. Unfortunately for the future lawyers of America, this enlightening class had few students. The teacher began with a joke: Farmers paid a claim. The class reinforced my […]

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America Out Loud PULSE: Doctors and Patients or Bureaucrats: Who’s in Charge of Our Medical Care? with Andy Schlafly, JD

From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast with Andy Schlafly, JD – https://www.americaoutloud.news/doctors-and-patients-or-bureaucrats-whos-in-charge-of-our-medical-care-2/ Political persecution through the legal system has become the new American justice. But it can work both ways – if we have the courage. President Calvin Coolidge, a strong proponent of limited government, believed that “in order for the Constitution and self-government […]

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America Out Loud PULSE: From Physician to Activist with Dr. Jane Hughes

From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast with Dr. Jane Hughes – https://www.americaoutloud.news/from-physician-to-activist-meet-jane-hughes-md/ There was a time when patients sought medical care from a physician, not a “healthcare system.” Now there’s over-priced health insurance that falls short when you actually need it; Medicare Advantage plans that trap you like a roach motel and then don’t […]

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America Out Loud PULSE: DEI Meets Antisemitism Meets a Lawsuit

From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast with Tammy Weitzman – https://www.americaoutloud.news/dei-and-antisemitism-meet-a-lawsuit-with-tammy-weitzman/ What strange times we live in now. We have gone from the era of Ralph Ellison’s novel, Invisible Man, brilliantly exploring what it means to be socially or racially invisible to almost every ad on television including a person of color. Segregated army […]

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Healthcare Redefined: Finding the Right Doctor Once They’ve Retired

Guest Column by Virginia Cooper. Embarking on the journey to find a new primary care physician (PCP) can be challenging, particularly when your long-trusted doctor decides to retire. For many, this transition is not just about finding a new healthcare provider, but also about ensuring that their specific health needs, especially as minorities, are understood […]

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America Out Loud PULSE: Save Money on Your Skyrocketing Medical Bills with Marshall Allen

From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast with Marshall Allen – https://www.americaoutloud.news/how-to-save-money-on-your-skyrocketing-medical-bills/ According to the Congressional Research Service (CRS), health spending represents 18.3 percent of our gross domestic product (GDP). Americans whether individually, through insurance, or through the government spent $4.3 trillion ($4,255.1 billion) or $12,914 per person in 2021. Out of pocket spending was […]

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America Out Loud PULSE: Unveiled: One Woman’s Story, Trapped by Fundamentalist Islam

From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast with Yasmine Mohammed – https://www.americaoutloud.news/yasmine-mohammed-unveiled-one-womans-story-trapped-by-fundamentalist-islam/ Violence is becoming commonplace. We cannot let it become inured to it. We hear about weekend violence on the big cities, shrug it off and are thankful that it was not in our neighborhood. But there is a particular kind of violence that […]

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America Out Loud PULSE: Employer Based Health Insurance

From my America Out Loud Pulse podcast with Matt Ohrt –https://www.americaoutloud.news/matt-ohrt-healthcare-policy-from-an-insurance-agent/ Medical care is expensive. Hospitals can cost anywhere from $1,305/day, to $4,181/day depending on the state where you live. The top reason that non-elderly adults do not have health insurance is that they cannot afford it. Worse, half of insured adults say they have […]

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