Women With Breast Cancer Delay Care When Faced With High Deductibles NYT May 2018
- Study found that women with high deductibles “delayed beginning chemotherapy by an average of seven months”
- “About 11 percent of covered workers have a deductible of at least $3,000”
- Also” numerous studies show people are more likely to forgo preventive care when they have a high deductible — even if that care is free”
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- Some people delay getting treatment until the start of the next year so as to not have to pay deductibles in each year
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- If you cannot readily get medical treatment, consider Alternative Med such as vitamin D
- ICU cost reduced by at least 27,000 dollars if get high dose vitamin D in first week - April 2017
- Health Care Costs in US are increasing - infographics and Vitamin D - Dec 2016
- Heart Attack ICU costs reduced $37,000 by $20 of Vitamin D – Nov 2015
- Cost savings with Vitamin D chart shows the huge increase in deductibles
Reduce deductibles and co-pays for pregnancy and infant medical care
- Costs of Pregnancy much reduced by Vitamin D
- $10 of Vitamin D might routinely save $1,000 in out-of-pocket costs over 3 years of pregnancy & early childhood
- Omega-3 supplementation during pregnancy reduce early pre-term births (save 1500 USD per child) – Aug 2016
- Vitamin D once during pregnancy reduced infant health care costs (300 times ROI) – RCT Dec 2015
Healthy pregnancies need lots of vitamin D has the following summary
Problem | Reduces | Evidence |
0. Chance of not conceiving | 3.4 times | Observe |
1. Miscarriage | 2.5 times | Observe |
2. Pre-eclampsia | 3.6 times | RCT |
3. Gestational Diabetes | 3 times | RCT |
4. Good 2nd trimester sleep quality | 3.5 times | Observe |
5. Premature birth | 2 times | RCT |
6. C-section - unplanned | 1.6 times | Observe |
Stillbirth - OMEGA-3 | 4 times | RCT - Omega-3 |
7. Depression AFTER pregnancy | 1.4 times | RCT |
8. Small for Gestational Age | 1.6 times | meta-analysis |
9. Infant height, weight, head size within normal limits | RCT | |
10. Childhood Wheezing | 1.3 times | RCT |
11. Additional child is Autistic | 4 times | Intervention |
12.Young adult Multiple Sclerosis | 1.9 times | Observe |
13. Preeclampsia in young adult | 3.5 times | RCT |
14. Good motor skills @ age 3 | 1.4 times | Observe |
15. Childhood Mite allergy | 5 times | RCT |
16. Childhood Respiratory Tract visits | 2.5 times | RCT |
RCT = Randomized Controlled Trial