March 2017 - The Health Care Blog

Replacing the ACA; Closing the Deal

By GARY MENDOZA Last week, the CBO threw buckets of cold water on the American Health Care Act. While there are serious questions concerning the CBO’s methods and its historical accuracy (see Avik Roy’s critique), Democrats fighting to defend the ACA...

Published Tue, Mar 21 2017 9:18 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

The New FDA Commissioner

By SAURABH JHA, MD That the appointment of Scott Gottlieb to head the FDA has elicited a decidedly mixed response is a good thing. I fear consensus as much as the late Christopher Hitchens loved dissent which, he believed, was an indicator of a healthy...

Published Sat, Mar 11 2017 3:42 PM by THCB

Filed under: Economics

The Vanishing Hospital: ASCs Follow the Consumer

Call it what you want, disruption or evolution, but when two of the largest for-profit hospital chains, HCA Healthcare and Tenet Healthcare, and one of the largest insurance intermediary services companies, Optum (part of UnitedHealth Group), invest billions...

Published Tue, Mar 14 2017 4:51 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

A Dishonest Conversation on Healthcare

By BLAKE ASHBY The conversation our country is having about healthcare right now is not honest. It’s not just the Republicans, the Democrats are just as dishonest, in a different way. Republicans talk about government death panels denying care....

Published Mon, Mar 13 2017 8:31 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

How to Blow Up the Health Insurance Market In One Easy Step

By ROBERT LASZEWSKI I call support for giving insurance companies the ability to sell insurance across state lines the cockroach proposal. As bad as it is, you just can’t kill the damn thing! Last night, President Trump once again listed this idea...

Published Thu, Mar 02 2017 7:32 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Democrats Paid a Steep Price For Ignoring the CBO. Republicans Will Too.

BY KIP SULLIVAN Eight years ago it was Democrats who were criticizing the Congressional Budget Office. Now it’s Republicans who are bashing the CBO for estimating that 14 million Americans will lose their health insurance next year if the House Republicans...

Published Tue, Mar 21 2017 8:07 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Watch the Recorded Repeal & Replace: Impact on Health Tech Webinar

By JILL MERRIGAN In case you missed the Repeal & Replace webinar this morning, click here or the image above to watch Health 2.0’s Indu Subaiya and Matthew Holt tackle questions with policy expert Josh Seidman from Avalere Health. Jill Merrigan is...

Published Thu, Mar 23 2017 3:33 PM by THCB

Filed under: Health 2.0

Now What, Mr. President? Here’s What.

By STEVEN FINDLAY In the wake of the AHCA’s demise, most lawmakers and policy experts agree that Congress will put repeal and replace aside for the rest of 2017. As House Speaker Paul Ryan acknowledged on Friday that means the ACA/Obamacare remains the...

Published Sun, Mar 26 2017 6:24 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, Trump, AHCA, Findlay

Repealed and Misplaced

By KIP SULLIVAN Like Joe, Michael and others, I find myself wondering what, if anything, Trump learned from the demise of the AHCA last Friday. But I’m also wondering what Democrats and other Republicans are thinking. The question I would like to...

Published Sun, Mar 26 2017 7:00 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, Trump, AHCA, Freedom Caucus, William Kristol

After the American Health Care Act

BY JOHN IRVINE I asked THCB’s editors and bloggers for their reactions to Friday’s news. DANIEL STONE, MD The late UCLA Professor Richard Brown, once commented that the Clinton healthcare initiative failed because the status quo was everyone...

Published Sun, Mar 26 2017 7:08 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, John Irvine

Make Trumpcare the First Big Step toward a Free Market in Healthcare

By CHARLES SILVER Say what you will about Obamacare—at least President Obama eventually took ownership of it. When it comes to the American Health Care Act, President Trump isn’t ready to do that. He’s discouraging people from calling it “Trumpcare.”...

Published Tue, Mar 21 2017 10:18 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, Repeal + Replace

Value-Based Purchasing and “Free Lunch Syndrome”

By KIP SULLIVAN Imagine that a drug company released a “study” that claimed to find that if all 75 million Americans with high blood pressure took the drug company’s hypertension drug the nation’s annual medical expenditures would drop by $20 billion...

Published Wed, Mar 15 2017 8:10 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Hospitals Helping Hospitals Be Better Hospitals

By PETER PRONOVOST, MD The moment that an accreditation team shows up unannounced can spike the pulse of even the most seasoned hospital executive. The next several days will amount to one big exam for the safety and quality of care, as surveyors meet...

Published Sat, Mar 18 2017 4:58 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Ayasdi–Big Data changing hospital operations

By MATTHEW HOLT One of the more interesting companies playing in the analytics space is Ayasdi. We’ve featured them at Health 2.0 a couple of times, but at HIMSS I got a chance to talk a little more in depth with chief medical officer Francis Campion...

Published Thu, Mar 16 2017 9:41 PM by THCB

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Hospitals, Big Data, Machine learning models, HIMSS17, Francis Campion, Ayasdi

How Trump Can Kill the Cancer In Obamacare Without Congress

By BRIAN JOONDEPH, MD Cancer is a devious and devastating disease. All it takes are a few bad cells to grow uncontrollably, first destroying organs, then an entire person. It can also lie dormant for years after supposedly being cured, then at some moment...

Published Mon, Mar 13 2017 9:11 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

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Replacing the ACA; Closing the Deal

The New FDA Commissioner

The Vanishing Hospital: ASCs Follow the Consumer

A Dishonest Conversation on Healthcare

How to Blow Up the Health Insurance Market In One Easy Step

Democrats Paid a Steep Price For Ignoring the CBO. Republicans Will Too.

Watch the Recorded Repeal & Replace: Impact on Health Tech Webinar

Now What, Mr. President? Here’s What.

Repealed and Misplaced

After the American Health Care Act

Make Trumpcare the First Big Step toward a Free Market in Healthcare

Value-Based Purchasing and “Free Lunch Syndrome”

Hospitals Helping Hospitals Be Better Hospitals

Ayasdi–Big Data changing hospital operations

How Trump Can Kill the Cancer In Obamacare Without Congress