Tag: healthcare reform

Study: Medicaid Coverage ‘Substantially’ Improves Access to Care

How does obtaining health coverage (insurance) compare to not getting it at…

MichaelDouglas1 MichaelDouglas1

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…

David Harlow David Harlow

ACO’s and CMS

  The Accountable Care Organization is really an accounting mechanism and may…

Gary Levin MD Gary Levin MD

Pharma R & D Spending is Down

And that’s probably bad news. Here is Megan McArdle, writing in The…

JohnCGoodman JohnCGoodman

Why Not Let the Dead Pay for Medicare?

Kevin Drum at Mother Jones has a novel (if not original) idea.…

JohnCGoodman JohnCGoodman

Texas Lawmakers Revisit Medicaid/Medicare Secession Scenario with Bill’s Intro

Consider this: With a rate approaching 30 percent, the state of Texas…

MichaelDouglas1 MichaelDouglas1

Is Medicare A Good Deal?

Think about everything you will pay to support Medicare: the payroll taxes…

JohnCGoodman JohnCGoodman

Fed Gov’t Approves Covert Study of Access to Primary Care

The federal government is planning what has been termed as a “stealth…

MichaelDouglas1 MichaelDouglas1

The Massachusetts Experiment Analyzed: Are We Ready for Global Payments?

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley released her office's second annual report, An…

David Harlow David Harlow

Nurses Demonstrate on Wall Street

This is not what you typically see on Wall Street but it…

BarbaraDuck BarbaraDuck