Tax Code Influences Health Care Reform
Real Health Reform will require many other reforms as well. Tax reform is one that is often overlooked in regard…
High Deductible Health Plans and HSA's Bad for Your Health? NOT
Articles recently published claim that high deductible health plans and HSA's are potentially bad for your health and that they…
Holding down costs or improving quality? Interest Groups Vow to Cut Costs
Well, it is a great first step. One fueled by self-interest, concerns about "thrival" (thriving survival), true desire to evolve…
COMMENTARY: The Spectre of Specter
It may strike some as unusual to link what on the surface would appear to be purely political to the…
Pre-Existing Conditions: End the Game, Health Coverage for All Now
First, the employee based system is outmoded and dates from a post-WWII reality that no longer exists. Persons change jobs…
"Can Healthcare Reform Finally Happen?"
"Can Healthcare Reform Finally Happen?" featuring Tom Daschle, former U.S. Senate majority leader and Michael Leavitt, former U.S. secretary of…
AMA Supports President's 8 Principles for Health Reform
The AMA has in recent years been very supported of health system reform. This latest letter of support for the…
Timely filing of health claims = health insurers rip off of providers and patients
Why is it that a service provided can be denied payment simply because the bill is late? This seems to…
Comparative Effectiveness is really about the money
Comparative effectiveness is what medicine has been doing since its modern inception some 2,500+ years ago. In the last century,…
Medicare readmission rates high: Could Medicare be at fault?
here are number of findings and some conclusions as well as some discussion of possible solutions. However, this site needs…