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Proposed Drug and Device Laws Should Be Pushed to 2017

By PAUL BROWN, TRACY RUPP, and STEVEN FINDLAY Senate leaders now say they won’t consider companion legislation to the House-passed 21st Century Cures Act until September, after months of delay. Lawmakers would then have to reconcile the differing House...

Published Thu, Jul 14 2016 8:29 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, Steven Findlay, Consumer's Union, FDA User Fees, Medical Devices, 21st Century Cures Act

Yes, Expand Medicaid!

By STEVE FINDLAY President Obama was right last week to pivot to two things in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) decision: (a) a plea to Republicans (yet again) to please, pretty please drop their opposition to the law and join...

Published Mon, Jul 06 2015 8:15 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Medicaid Expansion

How Is Health Reform Impacting Insurance Switching Patterns?

By IYUE SUNG Americans typically don’t switch health insurance, and that has not changed much with healthcare reform. Despite controversy with the converse scenario – the ability to keep the same insurance – and the introduction of health insurance marketplaces...

Published Fri, Jul 17 2015 7:14 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB

Give The Gift of the Health Care System

By NATHAN MOORE, MD and ELISABETH ASKIN,MD The United States health care system is a big, expensive mess, and the people working in the system today often don’t even know how to start learning about the system, and it’s problems. My own frustration...

Published Sat, Dec 26 2015 5:25 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Nathan Moore

It Costs Nothing to Care: Why We Need to Provide Health Insurance for Undocumented People

By ABRAAR KARAN, MD The cost of medical service provision in the United States is one of the most palpable strains on the healthcare system, but we must not forget that cost is the sibling of quality and access—without considering the three as such, we...

Published Wed, Sep 30 2015 2:57 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Uncategorized

The Operating System For Value-Based care

By ROBERT M. ROWLEY, MD Health care in the U.S. is on the threshold of fundamental change. Powered by advances in federal policy, the underlying way in which we pay for health care is moving from the traditional fee-for-service, pay-for-volume historic...

Published Mon, Jul 20 2015 9:32 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, The Business of Health Care, value-based care, Robert Rowley

The Wisdom of the Blogs

By THCBist Have a prediction for 2016? Send them in. There’s still time. Want to know what the crystal ball holds in store? Register for athenahealth’s “The Future of Healthcare: Predictions for 2016.” B.S. writes: 1. ICD-10 will...

Published Mon, Sep 14 2015 5:15 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB

Qualcomm Life adds inpatient strategy with Capsule purchase

Qualcomm Life has built a big ecosystem of device partners on its 2net platform, focusing mostly on moving data from devices used by patients in their home. Today they sped up that development by buying Capsule which has a strong business on integrating...

Published Mon, Sep 14 2015 3:29 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Rick Valencia, Capsule, Qualcomm Life

ACA Database: The Doctor Is a Monopoly

By THCBist Undisclosed location, TN writes: I have a concern that some of the medical specialty groups of physicans in my area are forming their own monopolies. They are joining together in a way that patients can no longer have access to a new physician...

Published Fri, Sep 11 2015 4:55 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB

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Published Mon, Jan 18 2016 11:00 PM by THCB

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George Clooney Was Onto Something

By JESSIE GRUMAN In the Oscar-nominated movie “Up in the Air,” Ryan Bingham (aka George Clooney), travels around the country firing employees for company bosses who don’t have the stomach to do it themselves -– the ones who prefer to... Read More...

Published Wed, Mar 17 2010 5:15 AM by The Health Care Blog

Price controls do not work

By PAUL LEVY If there is anything about economics that has been proven over and over, it is that price controls do not work. The unintended consequences are usually worse than the problem that led to the solution in the... Read More...

Published Wed, Mar 17 2010 7:41 AM by The Health Care Blog

The Top Ten Immediate Benefits Americans Will Receive When Health Care Reform Passes

By MAGGIE MAHAR Yesterday, the Democratic Caucus of the House listed the provisions of the health reform bill that will take effect “as soon as health care passes,” The legislation would: Prohibit pre-existing condition exclusions for children in all...

Published Wed, Mar 17 2010 10:48 AM by The Health Care Blog

Autism and the MMR: Finally a Retraction

By NAOMI FREUNDLICH Are we finally ready to close the door on the much-disputed link between the MMR vaccine and autism? On January 30, Britain’s General Medical Council ruled that Andrew Wakefield, a gastroenterologist, had acted “dishonestly and irresponsibly...

Published Fri, Feb 05 2010 6:07 AM by The Health Care Blog

The Health Assurance – Disease Insurance Plan

By NORTIN M HADLER, MD The American health care delivery system is reprehensible for the degree to which it tolerates the under-treatment of those in need and supports the over-treatment of those who are entitled. It invests vast wealth in... Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 03 2010 8:31 AM by The Health Care Blog

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Proposed Drug and Device Laws Should Be Pushed to 2017

Yes, Expand Medicaid!

How Is Health Reform Impacting Insurance Switching Patterns?

Give The Gift of the Health Care System

It Costs Nothing to Care: Why We Need to Provide Health Insurance for Undocumented People

The Operating System For Value-Based care

The Wisdom of the Blogs

Qualcomm Life adds inpatient strategy with Capsule purchase

ACA Database: The Doctor Is a Monopoly

Blog Notes

George Clooney Was Onto Something

Price controls do not work

The Top Ten Immediate Benefits Americans Will Receive When Health Care Reform Passes

Autism and the MMR: Finally a Retraction

The Health Assurance – Disease Insurance Plan