Newborns Suffering With Increase Use of Opioids During Pregnancy?
Opioids are a group of medications that result in pain relief. Is it safe during Pregnancy? Increased risk of withdrawal and birth effects are seen including fetal distress and even death.
Wasting Money with Medical Malpractice
Imaging driving down the road, a small animal jumps out in front of your vehicle – you slam on the breaks and narrowly miss the animal. You determine that you would have easily missed the animal except your breaks are screeching and they couldn’t slow the car down effectively.
Health Care Spending
Health care is an area of demanding and controversial health care programs, insurance and spending. Medicaid and Medicare are government run programs that account for a large portion of health care cost.
Auditors Warn Utah Medicaid is Wasting Taxpayers Dollars
A legislative audit was released Tuesday Aug 18th showing that Utah is wasting dollars assigned to medicaid by the federal and stated government. The audit was performed on behalf of the legislative committee and the findings are highly unexpected.
Is Medicaid Really That Important?
Medicaid began in 1965 under the Social Security ACT under Title XIX. Harry Truman initiated the idea of a national health insurance plan in 1945. Many worried about a “socialized health care” transformation and it wasn’t until 1965 that President Lyndon Johnson signed this plan into law. – Medicaid was initiated along with Medicare.
