Tag: insurance
Do Black Physicians Earn Less Than White Physicians?
Can gender or color determine a physician's salary? A provocative new study uncovers an alarming gap between the salaries of white doctors and those of black doctors...
Should The San Bernardino Shooter’s Family Get His Life Insurance?
On December 12, 2015, Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik opened fire at a holiday party in San Bernardino, California. Fourteen people...
What the Amish Understand About Our Healthcare System That We Don’t
A few days ago, I stumbled across an opinion piece from Quartz that examined the way in which the Amish people approach health care...
6 Reasons Universal Health Care Is The Right Answer For America
Our healthcare system needs “fundamental changes.” That’s according to more than 2,000 physicians who are calling for a government run single-payer healthcare system. According...
Will Canadians Soon Have Their Medical Marijuana Covered By Insurance?
There is good news for medical marijuana users in Canada — they may not have a long wait before insurance companies start footing the...
Will Insurance Premiums Skyrocket Now that Obesity is a Disease?
Members of the American Medical Association (AMA) met last week in Chicago and voted to consider obesity as a disease, despite opposition from the...
The Shocking Reality About the Price of Obesity
In recent years, we’ve just started to see the dramatic cost effects from people who smoke. One of the latest studies suggests that businesses...
