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HealthReform 2.0
Thomas@loker.com

Episode 4 Gag orders make us gag – HB004

Gag Orders are the bain of healthcare Gag orders are killing healthcare and causing prices to skyrocket due to a lack of transparency. We discuss these issues. If providers, payers, and advocates can’t talk about how their deals work, particularly

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HealthReform 2.0
Thomas@loker.com

Price Transparency – Healthcare’s Lack Thereof

Healthcare’s Price Transparency sucks! There is no real Price Transparency. Healthcare costs and pricing have no relationship to anything. What you told the cost is never what is paid. We unpack this in this episode to help you get to

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Heart Attack
Thomas@loker.com

Episode 8 Serious as a Heart Attack HR-20-008

Heart Attacks are deadly, so are the medicine and technology that underlies the care. On June 27th, 2018, Cohost Tom Loker had a nearly fatal heart attack.  This show discusses the events leading up to the attack, the emergency response,

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HealthReform 2.0
Thomas@loker.com

Episode 7: Mammography, Ultrasound & Density HR-20-007

Mammography the Gold Standard Mammograms are the gold standard for breast cancer detection and diagnosis, yet their accuracy leaves a bit desired in normal breasted women. 40 percent of women have “Dense” breasts.  Mammography effectiveness in dense-breasted women falls off

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HealthReform 2.0
Thomas@loker.com

Episode 6: A New Approach to Health Reform HR-20-006

We Need Real Health Reform It’s time to fix this healthcare quagmire.  We have seen the government’s idea, ObamaCare, and it’s not working.  We have been told single-payer or universal healthcare is a better way, but it’s demonstrably and prove-ably

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Thomas@loker.com

Dan Brown’s Inferno HR-20-004

In this episode, Tom discusses Dan Brown’s Book Inferno and how it may not be as much of a work of fiction as we think!  Tom discusses the history of how we came to this position to help enlighten healthcare’s

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HealthReform 2.0
Thomas@loker.com

Episode 1-11: Helplessly Hoping HR-20-1.11

We are helpless in fixing our system and hoping our politicians actually care. We are helplessly hoping that our current healthcare system will improve. All the while, our professional political class in Washington is hell-bent on destroying what we have

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