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It’s Official: Employee Wellness Is a Total “Scam”

By AL LEWIS and VIK KHANNA No Affordable Care Act (ACA) provision enjoys more bipartisan support than the provision encouraging employers to pay or fine employees based on their health and health behaviors, a practice known as “workplace wellness...

Published Sun, Apr 19 2015 8:09 AM by The Health Care Blog

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Controlling the Medicare Budget — Time to Fast Forward to 1999?

By ROGER COLLIER The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the government deficit will exceed one and a half trillion dollars this year, with federal health care annual expenditures expected to hit the trillion dollar mark by 2012. The largest federal...

Published Wed, Apr 27 2011 5:13 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Medicare, IPAB, National Bipartisan Commission of the Future of Medicare

And the Worst Health Care System in the World Is…

By EVAN FALCHUK The United States, of course. Oh, no, wait, it’s Canada. Actually, I think it could be Germany. Geez, now I think it might be the UK. You could go on and on like this. But you know what? No matter how good or bad your system is, there...

Published Thu, Feb 24 2011 9:58 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Consumers, International, Op-Ed, Healthcare costs, Evan Falchuk, Healthcare systems

HIMSS11 Recap

By NEIL VERSEL “We just need to do it.” That’s the comment I heard from a hospital CMIO on a HIMSS shuttle bus Thursday morning. He, of course, was talking about “meaningful use,” the standard by which providers will qualify for federal Electronic...

Published Thu, Feb 24 2011 5:48 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Front Page

The Land of Milk, Honey and Low-Priced Health Insurance

By DAVID DRANOVE and CRAIG GARTHWAITE Not long ago we received our first signs that all may not be well in the land of milk, honey, and low priced insurance, i.e. the ACA insurance exchanges. Many insurers, including some of the largest in each state...

Published Thu, Jun 11 2015 7:45 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

It’s Past Time to End the Employer Mandate

By DAVID DRANOVE and CRAIG GARTHWAITE The New Year always brings many changes. In addition to soon to be broken resolutions, this particular year ushered in strict mandates requiring employers with more than 100 full-time employees to either provide health...

Published Thu, Feb 12 2015 12:53 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Obama, ACA, Staples, Benefits, Employer Mandate

Commentology

Jeff Goldsmith writes: "As you may know if you've read my postings, I'm an outspoken advocate of tightening Medicare fraud and abuse laws. There will be a post on this in a day or two. It's actually the stuff that's... Read More....

Published Tue, Oct 27 2009 12:46 AM by The Health Care Blog

Job Post: Health Policy Coordinator

Organization: The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Location: Los Angeles, CA SEIU is seeking to hire an expert in health care administration and financing to help analyze, develop, and implement policy recommendations that support the members...

Published Tue, Dec 21 2010 2:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Things Are About to Get Ugly

By ROBERT LASZEWSKI Word is that House Republicans will attach an amendment to the latest federal spending bill that will cut-off funding for the health care bill. The last Congress never finalized a budget for the current fiscal year—the feds... Read...

Published Wed, Feb 09 2011 3:02 PM by The Health Care Blog

Health IT Future: A Tale of Three Watsons

By MICHAEL L. MILLENSON If you want to see the future of health information technology, take a look at the dueling visions of two Thomas Watsons that are on display this month in a game show and a trade show. The juxtaposition unintentionally demonstrates...

Published Mon, Feb 14 2011 6:48 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Michael Millenson, Watson, IBM, Tech, Mobile health apps

Op-Ed: Why "free market competition" fails in health care

By JOE FLOWER In trying to think about the future of health care, thoughtful, intelligent people often ask, “Why can’t we just let the free market operate in health care? That would drive down costs and drive up quality.” They... Read More...

Published Tue, Nov 03 2009 4:59 PM by The Health Care Blog

The P(r)ince of Healthcare

By DANIEL STONE, MD Tom Price, President Trump’s new Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) strode to the podium to the sound of applause. The two thousand medical administrators and physicians at the annual meeting of CAPG, a trade organization...

Published Fri, Jul 28 2017 6:52 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, Daniel Stone

Interview with David Hale

By Matthew Holt In this interview captured at the Health 2.0 Goes to Washington on June 10, 2010 David Hale, project manager at the National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health talks about his vision for the future... Read More...

Published Wed, Jul 21 2010 11:51 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Conferences

The Measurement Question

By VIPAN NIKORE I sat at home with a sense of relief. I had just finished my first month of residency - a grueling Cardiology month with very little sleep or food. I now finally had my first weekend off.... Read More...

Published Mon, Nov 15 2010 8:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

The Team Sport of Diagnosis: A Culture Shift Can Reduce Missed Diagnoses

By DAVID E. NEWMAN-TOKER Every American will experience a missed or delayed diagnosis at some point in his or her lifetime. Saying that is not a scare tactic — it’s a reality, according to a 2015 National Academy of Medicine report titled “Improving Diagnosis...

Published Wed, Jun 15 2016 10:27 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

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