Many Americans cannot afford to spend $1,000 a year on dental care for mostly routine maintenance. That’s not even counting unexpected costs like root canals, dental implants and crowns. Too many people put off dental care until it’s an emergency and their teeth need extensive care. Dental care is an unmet need for much of rural America, and in cities and suburbs as well.
Author: Devon Herrick
Social Medicine: Would You Attend Interactive Group Therapy on YouTube?
Surveys going back 20 years have consistently found that more than 100 million Americans search online for health information annually. Google reports there are roughly 70,000 health related searches every minute. One article even claimed doctors use Google and YouTube to learn about disease and conditions they treat.
Should You Die at Home?
Both my parents passed away in an institution in an institutional bed. One in a hospital bed in a critical care unit, the other in a nursing home bed. The Wall Street Journal reports that increasingly, people are choosing to die at home in their own bed. The Journal asks whimsically, “is that a good thing?”
Are Medicaid Work Requirements a Success or a Failure? It Depends
Many Red States have proposed to add work requirements to Medicaid eligibility. The Georgia Medicaid program is currently the only state in the nation to have a work requirement as a condition of eligibility, but other states have expressed an interest.