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Bits Blog: Car Insurance by the Mile

Posted on January 13, 2013June 9, 2013 by timbatchelder

The standard California state route marker consists of a white numeral on a green shield (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

By QUENTIN HARDY, nytimes.com

A California company is selling car insurance by the mile, using in-car sensors to log data. The longer plan is to have a running monitor of the car’s health.

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Bits Blog: Car Insurance by the Mile

Car insurance prices ‘start to fall’ (bbc.co.uk)

The Cash-Only Doctors Club

Posted on December 24, 2012June 2, 2013 by timbatchelder

English: Years U.S. states passed unlimited practice rights for Doctors of Osteopathic medicine (D.O), equal to those of Medical Doctors (M.D.)Gevitz N. The D.O.’s: osteopathic medicine in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

businessweek.com

Concierge doctors don’t take insurance, but do make house calls. Once an option only for the rich, they may change health care for everyone

RT @BW: Is concierge medicine the future of healthcare? | http://flip.it/0htzp #longreads http://flip.it/fHvQI

The Cash-Only Doctors Club

Paul Hsieh on Concierge Medicine (healthcarebs.com)
Dear Congress: Listen to doctors on the front lines of medicine (kevinmd.com)
Concierge Medical Practice: Dr. Bruce Feldman Announces Availability for Speaking Engagements (virtual-strategy.com)

How the U.S. Health-Care System Wastes $750 Billion Annually

Posted on September 10, 2012February 12, 2013 by timbatchelder

How the U.S. Health-Care System Wastes $750 Billion Annually

Brian Fung, theatlantic.com

As we approach health-care system reform, a breakdown of our biggest losses

Every year, the United States spends eight times as much money on unnecessary health-care costs as the Pentagon spent for each year of its operations in Iraq.

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Opening Up Big Data is the Big Solution to Curing Health Care Ills, according to Kauffman Report (kauffman.org)
U.S. recovers $4.2 billion from healthcare fraud probes: report (news.yahoo.com)
Editorial: Reduce health costs by avoiding unhelpful tests (newsday.com)
The Justice Department Gets Back $8 For Every Dollar It Spends On Health Care Fraud Investigations (thinkprogress.org)
Health insurance: US paying more for less (vitals.nbcnews.com)
The MedZilla.com Employment Report for February, 2013: Health Care Sector Stimulates Job Growth Throughout the Recession (virtual-strategy.com)
The MedZilla.com Employment Report for February, 2013: Health Care Sector Stimulates Job Growth Throughout the Recession (prweb.com)

Dan Roam: Explaining Healthcare Reform on a napkin

Posted on May 22, 2010February 9, 2013 by timbatchelder

Due to the incredible complexity of our current healthcare reform and the challenges of explaining the need to reform it, Dan Roam has visualized it using a series of napkins…

Clive Thompson on the Power of Visual Thinking | Wired Magazine | Wired.com.

US Healthcare on a napkin (pharmastrategyblog.com)
Drawing with Dan Roam (raikadesign.wordpress.com)
Summary of New Health Reform Law – Kaiser Family Foundation (policyabcs.wordpress.com)
The Center for Health Affairs Releases 2013 Healthcare Priorities (prweb.com)
Summary of New Health Reform Law (policyabcs.wordpress.com)
Unlocking Visual Thinking (ritholtz.com)
Stanford Crash Course on Creativity – Creative Story Telling – Week 7 (creativityland.ca)
How Can We Reform Healthcare? (duanepool.wordpress.com)
Healthcare Reform and Preventative Services: Just What the Doctor Ordered (cibcsolutions.wordpress.com)

Whocalled.us: trace that caller

Posted on August 28, 2009November 12, 2012 by timbatchelder

whocalled.us.

Background Checks Do’s and Don’t’s (kellybusinessadvisors.com)
Background checks should be required for all gun purchases (bangordailynews.com)
Info Quest, Inc. Unclear about Background Checks? (backgroundchex.wordpress.com)
3 Little Known Reasons Employers Ask for a Background Check (kellybusinessadvisors.com)
Obama urges tighter background checks on gun buyers (news.yahoo.com)
WhitePages’ new Current Caller ID app is the future of smartphone calling (venturebeat.com)
Police advisory: internet and computer scam affecting Darien residents (darientimes.com)
Caller ID meets Facebook and Twitter in new WhitePages app (geekwire.com)
Expert Review: Samsung Knack Cell Phone (samsung.com)
Caller Id and the Fall (danielundem.com)

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