Massachusetts UnionsTake a Wise Turn on Health Care
Massachusetts cities and towns face huge long-term health care financing challenges, thanks to ill-considered policies that allowed health insurance benefits for unionized jobs such as firefighters and teachers to get…
Doctors Opting Out
While the Washington bureaucracy and all its minions scramble around trying to craft just the right regulations that will magically make doctors and hospitals coordinate care, make primary care medicine…
Rubigo Therapeutics Develops Early Assessment and Treatment for Skin Cancer
There are multiple types of skin disorders that could cause anyone concerned about cancer to wonder about a spot on their skin or on a loved one’s skin. This fear…
NY Democrat Wins on Anti-Paul Ryan Message and Causes GOP Stress
It was only an election in an otherwise staid New York state US congressional district, but its tie to the entire debate on Medicare privatization has put this race and…
Guest Article: How to Sell Your Health IT Products into Hospitals
One of the most frequent questions I am asked by startups and new product development teams is “what’s the best way to sell my X product into a hospital?”…
Making the Purple Health Plan More Purple
Larry Kotlikoff has proposed a Purple Health Plan (part red, part blue) that has been endorsed already by several hundred economists. Since Larry has attributed to me the idea of…
Hoarding Worse As You Grow Older – Depression not OCD Partly to Blame
A Kaiser Health News article reports that according to several studies presented at the annual conference of the Am A Kaiser Health News article reports that according to several studies…
Experts Blast Ryan’s Attack on IPAB
In defending his controversial proposal to turn Medicare into premium support for buying private insurance, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., on Meet the Press last Sunday took a potshot at the…
Medical Technology Financings Over $400 million in May 2011
Financings in medical technology are on an uptick for May 2011, even if the $107 million raised by the implantable defibrillator company Cameron Health is considered an anomaly. There remains…
We Need a Liberal Immigration Policy to Support Health Care Reform
Over the last decade, the United States has intentionally made itself less attractive to immigrants, forgetting that immigration has been a huge driver of the country’s economic success. In…
