What happens if someone does not have health insurance? The ramifications will affect the tax filings of people this year but be different next year. Beyond the financial implications, there are others for patients and their loved ones. Here to help us learn what to do and why is Houston based neurologist and the founder of the Houston Health Initiative Dr. Steven Goldstein. You can learn more about The Houston Healthcare Initiative Co-Op at their web site, www.houstonhealthcareinitiative.org.
The Affordable Care Act or Obama Care has been in the news a lot lately because of a court ruling that declared it unconstitutional. This happening the day right before the deadline for signing up for next year’s coverage. Of course, we are not lawyers here and cannot comment on the “legal-eze” but one thing that Dr. Steven Goldstein can comment on is the cost to businesses and people that this and other government regulation generates for all of us. He is a respected Houston Neurologist and the founder of the Houston Healthcare Initiative Co-Op.
Prior approval is a way that insurance companies decide on how or whether a prescribed medical service, medication, test or procedure meets their coverage criteria. What can people do? Listen to find out.
It’s the start of a new year and everyone gets a new start resolving to do things better or differently than they did before. The most popular of these resolutions every year involve health in some way and saving money. People determine to lose weight, stop smoking, exercise more often and fritter away less money every January and most get off to a good start. Just try getting into your local health club during the month of January this or any year. But as the weeks go by, eagerness for those health and fitness resolutions is replaced by apathy. Of course, healthcare is an everyday concern for Dr. Steven Goldstein who is a respected Houston based Neurologist and the founder of the Houston Healthcare Initiative Co-op. Click here to listen.
Over the past few weeks Dr. Steven Goldstein, a respected neurologist and founder of the Houston Healthcare Initiative co-op, talked about the benefit of early diagnosis of certain conditions that are possible when co-op members receive their free medical exam. One in particular is high blood pressure. This week we will discuss specifically one of these conditions that is possible to treat successfully with early detection. High blood pressure.
On the Houston Healthcare Initiative podcast, the facts and consequences of obesity. Obesity will affect mental and physical health, increase the odds of mortality in all cause related disease and raise the price of traditional health insurance. Learn how to overcome obesity and earn financial rewards by calling 346-400-2789.
Snoring Obesity and Health Risks
People who snore are more at risk cardio pulmonary disease, high blood pressure, stroke and poor mental health linked to lack of quality sleep. Dr. Steven Goldstein, Houston based neurologist and founder of the Houston Healthcare Initiative Co-Op describes what to do about all of this and even has a good way to help pay for it all. Visit the web site at www.houstonhealthcareinitiative.org to learn more.
Houston based neurologist and founder of the Houston Healthcare Initiative (www.houstohealthcareinitiative.org) Dr. Steven Goldstein talked about the risk of strokes and their relationship to weight and obesity on his weekly podcast. While the outcomes from strokes are always bad, Dr. Goldstein allowed that from a pure psychological point of view, losing weight was more difficult than recovering from a stroke. “Assuming the patient survives and has the ability to rehabilitate him or herself, there is a lot of motivation for them to do the things that will lead to recovery,” Dr. Goldstein told his audience.
Losing weight means changes in lifestyle, adding exercise, eliminating things that we all like to eat and drink in a process that takes a lot of sacrifice. So it is very hard to maintain this type of change over any amount of time. While motivation for losing weight is psychologically challenging, but on the whole it is better to lose weight than endure a stroke.
The policy of some insurance companies to limit or refuse coverage for opioid based pain killers effects millions. While drug abuse of any type is terrible and to be avoided, opioid based pain treatments are important for millions who suffer from chronic pain. Here to help us sort this out is well known Houston based neurologist and founder of the Houston Health Initiative, Dr. Steven Goldstein.
Dr. Steven Goldstein told listeners to his weekly podcast that not only were opioid pain killers not the best option for treating back pain but that they could make the situation worse. Dr. Goldstein is a well-known neurologist and the founder of the Houston Healthcare Initiative Podcast. The podcast can be heard on iTunes, Soundcloud and at www.houstonhealthcareinitiative.org.
For those feeling beat up, picked on, and maybe even a bit bullied by their doctor, hospital and health insurance company there is probably good reason to believe that way. Doctors and hospitals are charging more for services and insurance companies are denying more claims. Patients need both their health care providers and insurers, but as respected neurologist and Houston Healthcare Initiative Co-Op (www.houstonhealthcareinitiative.org) founder Dr. Steven Goldstein tells his podcast audience, this is not a normal ‘business-customer’ relationship. The Houston Healthcare Initiative Co-Op podcast can be heard on Soundcloud, iTunes and the web site at www.houstonhealthcareinitiative.org.
Actor Luke Perry passed away last week following what his publicist described as a ‘massive’ stroke. Perry was 52 years old. His death leaves people at or close to his age wondering if this could happen to them. We have absolutely the perfect person to talk with about this, neurologist and founder of the Houston Healthcare Initiative, Dr. Steven Goldstein. To learn more visit www.houstonhealthcareinitiative.org.