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Will We Get a Health Care Bill in 2009?

By ROBERT LASZEWSKI It’s decision time. The Congress will or won’t pass a major health care bill during the next few weeks. Will we get health care reform in 2009? Almost certainly not. As I have been saying for months,... Read More...

Published Thu, Oct 08 2009 7:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Robert Laszewski, Congress, Reform

THCB UPDATE

If you haven't had a chance to sign up for THCB UPDATE yet, you really should. You'll get a helpful reminder email from us when important posts go up on the site. In the two and a half six months... Read More...

Published Wed, Oct 07 2009 11:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

The Big Day for Health 2.0

By Matthew Holt Yes, today is the big day for Health 2.0 or rather the first of two huge days. In less than 7 hours Indu and I will be stepping onto the stage and six months of work, rehearsals... Read More...

Published Tue, Oct 06 2009 1:36 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0

Olberman, hysterical hypocrisy expose

By Matthew Holt A really fun piece from Keith Olbermann as he shows how the entire Gang of Six and more voted for fully socialized flood insurance and yet seem to have a problem with an independent government run public... Read More...

Published Sun, Oct 04 2009 1:21 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Policy/Politics, Matthew Holt, Policy

Carrot or Stick? Should Patient Decision Aids Be Rewarded or Required?

By DON KEMPER Should we incent or require providers to prescribe patient decision aids? Should we incent or require consumers to use patient decision aids? Overtreatment is the most celebrated cause of runaway health care costs, but we shouldn’t blame...

Published Thu, Oct 01 2009 6:35 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Costs, Physicians, Patients

Swine flu, uninsurance and not-so fondly remembering the teenage years

By Matthew Holt We get sent lots of rants to our tips line, most of which we ignore in an amused jaundiced way. But this one I found very amusing. I'm not sure it's 100% accurate, but it is very... Read More...

Published Wed, Sep 30 2009 7:18 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health Plans

The ugly, the bad, the very good and the great at the Health 2.0 Conference

By Matthew Holt So the Fall Health 2.0 2009 conference in San Francisco at the Concourse Exhibition Center is over. The bunting is down, the cocktails are drunk, and everyone can get back to the sanctity of the WiFi enabled... Read More...

Published Sat, Oct 10 2009 1:46 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt

Smoking and mental illness

By Maggie Mahar At last weeks Health 2.0 Conference Maggie Mahar, author of HealthBeatBlog got more than a little feisty about Al Waxman's suggestion that we make people with bad health behaviors pay more. She said that 95% of smokers... Read More...

Published Sun, Oct 11 2009 2:26 PM by The Health Care Blog

Pay (Only) for Health Care that Works

Charles Silver & David A. Hyman Health care is expensive partly because governmental payers and insurers foot the bill for large quantities of medical services that are ineffective, unnecessary, or unproven. According to a RAND report, studies of...

Published Wed, Nov 04 2009 10:20 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Reform

Modest step in the reform journey shows the idiocy of our political system

By Matthew Holt It does seem to take a health care bill to remind us all how incredibly screwed up the political process is in these here United States. The Medicare Modernization Act was railroaded through by Tom Delay and... Read More...

Published Sun, Nov 08 2009 8:22 AM by The Health Care Blog

Are We Too Small to Succeed?

By DON LINDSTROM The logic behind the government bailouts in the financial and automobile industries goes like this: some institutions are so large and interconnected that their failure could collapse the entire economy. They are considered to be too...

Published Mon, Nov 09 2009 3:50 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: AMA, Economics

Intermountain Healthcare -- Proof That U.S. Hospitals Can Improve

By MAGGIE MAHAR I urge everyone to read this story by David Leonhardt in this Sunday’s (November 8) New York Times. (Thanks to HealthBeat reader Lisa Lindel for spotting it. ) Leonhardt profiles Intermountain Healthcare, a network of hospitals and......

Published Tue, Nov 10 2009 1:09 PM by The Health Care Blog

Seeding the Cloud

By ALEX ESPTEIN The newest new future of computing is floating your way. Lie back on the grass and enjoy. It is The Cloud. Not the corporate Cloud that is the trademarked provider of Wi-Fi services in Europe. But the... Read More...

Published Mon, Jan 31 2011 10:12 PM by The Health Care Blog

Direct Project Implementations Take Flight

By RICH ELMORE and PAUL TUTEN The Direct Project has taken off, with the first-in-the-nation production use of the Direct Project for secure direct clinical messaging. Arien Malec, ONC’s Direct Project Coordinator, announced today that pilots in Minnesota...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2011 1:35 PM by The Health Care Blog

Health Care Reform in the U.K. and U.S

By HERBERT MATHEWSON, MD “England and America are two great nations separated by a common language.” -attributed to both Winston Churchill and George Bernard Shaw In 1965 I spent the summer of my third year in medical school at the... Read More...

Published Thu, Feb 03 2011 6:51 AM by The Health Care Blog

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