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…
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,…
COMMENTARY: Mr. President, Medicare IS NOT Medicaid !
his site has become somewhat frustrated in the continued phrasology of the President and others in the Administration and in…
Real Health Reform begins here !
Thanks Medscape for recognizing that Real Health Reform has a REAL solution (see article below by Nancy Terry) that can…
Health Reform will require patients & doctors input but . . .
Are reforms necessary . . . yes. However, many of the reforms needed are common sense, low cost items that…
Employers boost employee share of health insurance premiums
The move to make individuals more responsible for how they spend their health care dollars is a good thing