Sep 16 2009
Lifescript.com, the leading women’s health website, today published its list of top 100 tips for slashing your family’s health care costs.
The special report, 100 Money-Saving Health Tips, reveals little-known strategies for getting inexpensive medical, dental and eye care, diet and fitness products, health screenings, health foods, beauty products and more.
“As medical bills take a bigger bite out of family budgets, consumers are looking for every possible way to stretch their health dollars,” says Laurie Berger, VP/editor-in-chief of Lifescript.com. “Our top 100 list provides valuable tips to help Americans live healthy for less.”
Lifescript.com interviewed top physicians, health care professionals, health bloggers and budget-watchers to find the best money-saving strategies.
They include:
- Low-cost ob-gyn checkups
- Free kid vaccinations
- Discount laboratory tests
- Rebates on health products
- Prescription drug clubs
- Mental health “by the minute”
- Eyeglasses under $10
- Insurance plan freebies
- Free online workouts
- Health coupon websites
- Supermarket shopping secrets
- Kitchen beauty tricks
Sexual minority adults more likely to avoid care on the basis of patient-clinician identity discordance