Public Learning about ACOs

"Culture beats strategy every time" is a truism in management consultation. The Accountable Care Organization concept is excellent...

Nonprofit Regional Health Plans

As the US health system moves towards the 2014 launching of health exchanges and other components of Obamacare, regional nonprofit health pl...

Be Prepared for Health Care Reform

The YWCA's Health Access blog posted a very informative and helpful article about Health Care Reform. Even though finding a provider wh...

Victor Fuchs on health reform

I've never met Victor Fuchs, but I've admired and learned from his writings for years. His article in this week's JAMA on "...

Paranoid Style in the ACA Dissent

My wife and I are in Vermont with two of our grandchildren visiting, so I've only just now finished reading the 193 page Supreme Court d...

Why We Don't Want To Get Rid of Medicare-Our Best Tool for Health Care Reform

Why We Don’t Want To Get Rid of Medicare-Our Best Tool for Health Care Reform The pressure is on for federal budget slashing and of course ...

The Ethics of Choosing Wisely and Practicing Efficiently

This month the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation (ABIM) joined with nine medical specialty societies, each of which released a ...

Educative Journalism in Massachusetts

Apropos yesterday's post, this editorial from today's Boston Globe is interesting. I've interlaced comments of my own in bold i...

The Truth about Massachusetts Health Reform

If your view of Massachusetts health reform came from the Republican presidential debates you'd think the program is a catastrophe. That...

A Personal Experience with Consumer Directed Health Care

I'm agnostic about how effective Consumer Directed Health Care (CDHC) will turn out to be in prodding us patients into acting like disce...

The Reform Medicare Really Needs

Between now and the elections in November 2012 we're going to hear a lot about Medicare vouchers - or, in the prettied up term, "pr...

Learning from Massachusetts Health Reform

The Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Massachusetts has just published a report on the first five years of Massachusetts health reform. ...

Zeke Emanuel on Health Reform

Zeke Emanuel provides an excellent piece of public education about the potential for improved quality of care and cost savings in a recent N...

Mitt Romney on the Veterans Health System

By temperament I'm an optimist, but Republican pronouncements on health care, like Mitt Romney's proposal for privatizing the Vetera...

Health Insurer Secrecy and Public Trust

Ten health insurers, including Aetna and United Healthcare, are suing the New York State Insurance Department to prevent publication of memo...