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Archive for September, 2008

Revolution Health For Sale

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I was a little surprised to find out that Revolution Health is up for sale.  On the one hand, they pursued a WebMD type strategy when we all know tons of companies have died going down this path.  But, they had lots of money and lots of smart people.  Does that mean success?  Not necessarily?  […]

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Individual Insurance Premiums

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Citibank put out a report about the individual market for health insurance.  I found the following chart from eHealthinsurnace to be interesting.  It shows the family premiums broken out by age and gender.

Posted in Consumerism, Healthcare, Managed Care, Research      

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Uninsured Segments

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I thought this graph from Aetna was interesting on how it segmented out the uninsured and pulled out some of the high level groupings.

Posted in Healthcare, Marketing / Communications, Research      

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Ipsos Obesity Study

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Ipsos, a research group, just published an obesity study which looks at attitudes and perceptions around obesity around the world.  Here is one chart that shows the level of worry about obesity versus the level of obesity within the country.

78% of people surveyed supported education as a tool and 22% supported government intervention.  The government […]

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Broken Processes

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Sometimes the best processes just don’t work…typically because of human error.  When I returned my rental car today, they told me that it wasn’t my car.  Apparently, I had somehow left the lot with the wrong car.  Which means they parked the car in the wrong spot or told me the wrong spot to go […]

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Still Want to be an MD

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In the letters to the editor section of today’s (9/16/08) USA Today, there was a grim quote that I thought worth repeating. It was in response to their article on “Boomers May See Doctor Shortage” and is by a Dr. JA McErlean.

“Imagine how many applicants would apply for this job description: ‘Idealistic Generation X/Y […]

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CVS Comes To St. Louis

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St. Louis is pretty well dominated in the chain pharmacy space by Walgreens. After that, I would bet market share is pretty well divided across independents and the primary grocery stores of Schnucks and Dierbergs. I remember years ago when we looked at narrowing retail networks at Express Scripts we looked at a […]

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Lose Weight Without Dieting

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Isn’t that a great teaser! My wife was reading an article to me the other day from some magazine. Some famous person was claiming that they lost 30 pounds without dieting. Of course, that sounds promising (and probably sold a lot of magazines).

In the end, the person talked about working out 6 […]

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Battle to Buy Long’s Drugs

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Not a big surprise for CVS Caremark to make a play for Long’s.  They have been a much more acquisition oriented company.  But, Friday, Walgreens came out with a slightly larger bid which is much more unusual.  Walgreens until a few years ago had grown almost entirely through organic growth.  (WSJ Blog on this)
With Long’s, […]

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Texting for Deductibles and Copays

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I often get a lot of ideas from financial services.  I was watching a banking advertisement yesterday where the customer could text their bank to get a real-time balance.  It made me think what a great service that would be in healthcare.
Imagine texting your plan for an immediate response on:

Your deductible
Your FSA balance
Your copay on […]

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