Round and round it goes, and when it will stop, nobody knows. Background: The Former Health Care Reform Czar's Past Career It appears th...
Showing posts with label health care reform. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health care reform. Show all posts
The Door Revolves Again: the Former White House Health Reform Czar Goes to Private Equity Firm Looking for Investments Created by Health Reform
Round and round it goes, and when it will stop, nobody knows. Background: The Former Health Care Reform Czar's Past Career It appears th...
Is the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute Really More Industry-Centered?
One of the biggest reasons our health care system seems so dysfunctional is that clinicians and patients have great difficulty determining w...
Why Did the "Dean of Health Care Economics" Urge Reforms that "Appeal to Some Special Interests?"
We have often discussed, some would say belabored, the importance of the " anechoic effect " in health care. Particular issues wh...
Where is the risk?
That’s the question Thomas Cox, an RN with insurance experience and expertise, says should be asked about any health care financing mechanis...
Fool Us Once, Shame on You, Fool Us Twice, Shame on Us - The Untrustworthy Pronouncements of Aetna's Former CEOs
A small tempest in the larger US health care reform teapot was produced a few weeks ago when Ron Williams, former CEO of Aetna, declared in ...
Health Care (Insurance) Reform Upheld, but Concentration and Abuse of Power Remain Largely Unaddressed
This may seem like sour grapes, but... Numerous media reports say that the US Supreme Court has upheld the massive US health care "ref...
The Revolving Door's Bearings Overheat - Two Examples of the Health Care Insiders Who Keep it Spinning
Two recent stories illustrate a kind of conflict of interest affecting government health care policy. Note that neither story appeared in an...
Health Care's "99 Percenters"
As Occupy Wall Street has gone from an obscure protest covered only on blogs and social media to a national phenomenon, the apparent paralle...
Health Care Corporate Disinformation Campaigns: Wendell Potter's "Deadly Spin"
I wish I had gotten to this earlier.... In 2009, Wendell Potter, a mild-mannered former chief of public relations for for-profit health car...
