How to Lower Health Care Costs

So what is it actually going to take to lower health care costs?  Legislation isn't the only thing that can work.  In fact it is probably making it worse.  Health care as a whole is going to take a massive nationwide mindset change to improve our outlook for medical and healthcare expenses.

The infograph above indicates that many doctors office visits could be avoided.  The first thing people think when they are sick should be to treat themselves with OTC drugs, then treatment from a doctors office.

If those 10% of visits were avoided and managed at home, over $5 billion according to calculations from the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) would be conserved in health spending.

 

Imagine the savings here if a fraction of these costs were cut.  These are the figure we should be focused on at the legislative level and not the healthcare management.  Leave the private insurance companies to their own.

Fraud and abuse alone account for over 100 billion in funds.

An entrenched system is hard to change. Hospitals currently have little incentive to keep patients healthy. On the contrary, fitter patients would mean lower volumes and smaller margins, says Michael Nugent of Navigant Consulting, an expert on ACOs. Nevertheless, the current system is clearly unsustainable.

Health Insurance Blog

I hear crazy stuff from people every week about what good a health insurance blog will do.  Well the biggest reason I promote my own health insurance blog is that it gets results.  I first started blogging about 2 years ago and when I did it was because I read a get rich quick article and started a blog.

I made one post and then stopped for a long time.  It wasn't until February of this year that I picked up the health insurance blog again, and even then I wasn't sure what to write about.  I was posting on every thing under the sun, like real estate, funny videos and articles, and even politics.  Lately I've been seeing the benefit in specializing in a niche on my blog.  Hence the recent change in this website.

Health Insurance Blog

The comments I've been receiving haven't all been roses and chocolates either.  In fact, my boss isn't very thrilled that this website is doing better than the advertising she's been spending on our website that's been in development for the past 3 months.  Some say that I'm wasting my time and that there is no known value in a website of this nature.

All I'm saying is that this health insurance blog has been getting moderately good results.  I have had several folks email and call about what kind of insurance would work for them.  We chat about their situation and discuss a method or plan out which type to purchase.  It's all very simple and when we've finished I have satisfied customer and it's all because they read a very simply put health insurance blog.

On top of all that the website itself is making money.  There are a couple of well designed and modified advertisements all over this page that when clicked generate income.  I have paid nothing for this site except for time and effort and energy, I'm getting paid and I'm producing prospects that turn into clients.  Not bad for free, huh.

My health insurance blog (and I do emphasize my) is a self sustained lead generating site that is all my own.  I do not think that there is an easier better way of do that.  It is work and it has taken a while to learn but I have only been doing this for several months and I'm already seeing profits.