Study: Medicaid Coverage ‘Substantially’ Improves Access to Care
How does obtaining health coverage (insurance) compare to not getting it at…
Health Care Reform and Other Health Care Innovations – Regina Herzlinger Speaks From Harvard
I spoke with Harvard Business School professor Regina Herzlinger this week about…
ACO’s and CMS
The Accountable Care Organization is really an accounting mechanism and may…
Pharma R & D Spending is Down
And that’s probably bad news. Here is Megan McArdle, writing in The…
Why Not Let the Dead Pay for Medicare?
Kevin Drum at Mother Jones has a novel (if not original) idea.…
Texas Lawmakers Revisit Medicaid/Medicare Secession Scenario with Bill’s Intro
Consider this: With a rate approaching 30 percent, the state of Texas…
Is Medicare A Good Deal?
Think about everything you will pay to support Medicare: the payroll taxes…
Fed Gov’t Approves Covert Study of Access to Primary Care
The federal government is planning what has been termed as a “stealth…
The Massachusetts Experiment Analyzed: Are We Ready for Global Payments?
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley released her office's second annual report, An…
Nurses Demonstrate on Wall Street
This is not what you typically see on Wall Street but it…