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A Normal Pregnancy is a Retrospective Diagnosis

J. D. Kleinke is a medical economist, author, and health information industry pioneer, and the author of a new book, Catching Babies. Over at The Health Care Blog, he has published one of the best essays I have ever read... Read More...

Published Fri, Feb 04 2011 1:54 PM by Health Beat

New Study Focuses on Medical Errors in Outpatient Settings: A “Wake-Up Call” For Doctors

In the decade since the Institute of Medicine’s landmark report, "To Err is Human," revealed an epidemic of preventable medical errors and safety problems in the nation’s hospitals, virtually all of the safety efforts in health care have focused...

Published Wed, Jun 15 2011 11:38 AM by Health Beat

Despite Evidence, ACOG Says More Is Still Better For Mammograms

By announcing its new recommendation that all women over 40 should have yearly screening mammograms, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) joins prominent groups like the American College of Radiology, the American Cancer Society...

Published Thu, Jul 21 2011 2:20 PM by Health Beat

Increasing Out-of-Pocket Medicare Costs Is a Misguided Strategy for Deficit Reduction

When it comes to Medicare, a fundamental question still begs an answer: If seniors are forced to use more of their own money to pay for their care, will they scale back on unnecessary doctor visits and other medical services... Read More...

Published Mon, Sep 12 2011 9:55 AM by Health Beat

A CLASS Act Failure

Sen. Orin Hatch (R-UT) called it a “Ponzi scheme,” President Barack Obama held it up as a testament to the work of Ted Kennedy who wanted to ensure that the elderly and disabled would be able to afford help with... Read More...

Published Mon, Oct 17 2011 2:05 PM by Health Beat

Sleep-Deprivation: Can Residents “Learn” to Function with Less Sleep?

Imagine that you been in labor for 18 hours, and the resident who will be delivering your baby tells you that he hasn’t had any sleep for 25 hours. Would you ask for a new doctor? On the one hand,... Read More...

Published Mon, Aug 15 2011 11:52 AM by Health Beat

On the Road to Reform: The Mainstream Media Is Telling the Story of Waste Part 1

Anyone who suggests that “we don’t really know where the waste is” in our healthcare system just hasn’t been reading the news. There is so much over-ripe, low hanging fruit waiting to be plucked that the stench of excess has... Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 07 2011 1:54 PM by Health Beat

Giffords Shooting: A Tragedy That Spotlights Two Important Issues

The grotesque slaughter of innocents in Tucson, Arizona over the week-end has led many progressives to focus on the violent rhetoric that pundits on the Right often employ when attacking liberals. No question, this hate-speech has created a poisonous...

Published Mon, Jan 10 2011 11:29 AM by Health Beat

Berwick Targeted By Lynch Mob; CMS Director “Abandoned” by the Administration?

When President Obama named Dr. Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) last March, I wrote this: “Most who know Berwick describe him a ‘visionary’ and a ‘healer,’ a man able to survey the fragments of... Read More...

Published Tue, Mar 08 2011 10:28 AM by Health Beat

Robotic Medicine: A Surgeon Confesses That He Was Seduced By a Robot

U.S. healthcare is awash in medical technology, and recently, in an editorial published on Bloomberg.com, one surgeon suggested that we may be drowning. For as Dr. Craig D. Turner, a urologist in Portland, Oregon points out “what is different with......

Published Wed, Mar 16 2011 1:41 PM by Health Beat

Reports From the Field: How Health Reform is Already Helping Families

To commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, MomsRising, a five-year-old advocacy group dedicated to building "a more family friendly America," has produced an interactive map that provides stories...

Published Tue, Mar 29 2011 2:16 PM by Health Beat

Questions about the Alternative to the Public Option for Americans Under 55

At the moment, the Senate health-care compromise would replace the public option with a menu of private sector non-profit insurance plans overseen by the Office of Personnel Managment (OPM), the goup that oversees Federal Employees’ Health Benefit Plan...

Published Mon, Dec 14 2009 6:42 PM by Health Beat

As the Opponents of Reform Show Signs of Desperation . . .

Over the weekend, Senate Democrats found the 60 votes needed to press forward with the health care debate. I wasn’t surprised. As I have suggested in the past, I doubted that three or four moderates really wanted to be remembered... Read More...

Published Tue, Nov 24 2009 11:56 AM by Health Beat

Why are Health Insurers Launching An 11th Hour Attack on Health Care Reform?

They are running scared. And why are they so scared? Because they know that the public sector option is still alive. And here I’m not talking about the possibility that some states will offer public plans: Most state plans would... Read More...

Published Fri, Oct 16 2009 2:43 PM by Health Beat

Video Segments of Dr. Donald Berwick from the Documentary Money Driven Medicine

The following video segments are from the documentary Money Driven Medicine and are presented courtesy of the film's distributor California Newsreel www.newsreel.org (The player uses Adobe Flash Player available here) Is American Health Care the Best...

Published Fri, Mar 26 2010 1:50 PM by Health Beat

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