S2E9 Healthcare is Hostile (part 2)
30% of Hospitals have violated the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act - EMTALA. 4,341 violations have occurred in 1,682 hospitals in...
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20 of 34 episodesS2E10 Medicare an Introduction
Do you know why Medicare came into being? Do you know that Medicare & Medicaid were extensions to the Social Security Act of 1935? Do you kn...
S2E8 - Healthcare is Hostile
While roughly 10% of all professions report abusive behavior, the numbers for Healthcare are over 30%. Healthcare is a hostile environment i...
Episode 7 - Doctors: A Dangerous Healthcare Environment
Do you know that 50% of doctors initial diagnosis is wrong? How about the fact that only about 25% of their treatments have an underlying sc...
Episode 6 Audio Hospitals are Dangerous
One in four U.S. hospital patients suffer at least one healthcare related injury. In 1999, 44,000 - 98,000 patients died getting healthcare....
Season 2 Episode 5 - Drug Prices are too high! But are they Really? (part 2)
In the last Episode we talked about why what we think about drug prices are often mythical. This episode focuses on Mandatory Government Dru...
Season 2 Episode 4 - Drug Prices are too high! But are they Really? (part 1)
With Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar's recent announcement that HHS is targeting rebates as one of the reasons for America's h...
Episode 3 Season 2 - Hostile Predatory part 2
One of the reasons our healthcare quagmire is so dangerous is the hostile and predatory nature of competition within the industry. In this e...
Episode 2 – Predatory and Hostile Healthcare Environment (Part 1)
The current debate about high drug prices and the focus on attacking rebates to Pharmacy Benefits Managers is the right discussion but the a...
Season2 Episode 1 - Season Intro & Recap
Welcome to Season 2 of Healthcare Reform 2.0. In this episode we recap the past few months and tell you what we will be discussing in this s...
Episode 4 Gag-orders make us gag - HB004
Gag Orders are tools the Healthcare industry uses to keep you in the dark about cheaper drug prices and options. We discuss how they work, a...
Price Transparency - Healthcare's Lack Thereof
HealthyBytes: Quick Points for Fast Learners. - We talk about today's problems with the lack of real price transparency in our healthcare sy...
Episode 8 Serious as a Heart Attack HR-20-008
On June 27th Cohost Tom Loker had a nearly fatal heart attack. This show discusses the events leading up to the attack, the emergency respon...
Episode 7: Mammography, Ultrasound & Density HR-20-007
Mammograms are the gold standard for breast cancer detection and diagnosis yet they're accuracy leaves a bit to be desired in normal breaste...
Episode 6: A New Approach HR-20-006
It's time to fix this healthcare quagmire. We have seen government's idea, ObamaCare , and its not working. We have been told single payer o...
Episode 5-Compliance Online Speech-Why the Government Cant Fix Healthcare HR-20-005
The healthcare diatribe has continued to get more vitriolic. Most just spout contrived talking points from either side driven into our heads...
Episode 1.12 Where We Are Now
Medicare and Medicaid costs are still out of control, no cost containment efforts have had any effect, and yet, we continue to expand the fa...
Episode 1-11: Helplessly Hoping HR-20-1.11
1980-2010 saw a time when the government changed our national economic system and fundamentally crippled our healthcare system along the way...
Episode 1.10: 1970s – 1980 A system in Crisis HR-20-001.10
In the 1970s it became clear no matter how much we spent on healthcare it was never enough. Although Medicare was less than 5 years old, Con...
Episode 3: Kaiser on Kaiser - HR2-0-003
Henry J. Kaiser did more for America than build WWII Liberty Ships. Find out about our Greatest Entrepreneur and his legacy of healthcare. H...