The GOP’s Health Policy Cynics
By MICHAEL MILLENSON The health care community is discovering to its shock and dismay that it’s not simply traditional Republican conservatives who have taken control of the House of Representatives,...
View ArticleWhy Everything We Are Doing in Health Policy May Be Completely Wrong …
By JOHN GOODMAN A relatively obscure paper (gated) published in an academic journal the other day was completely ignored by the mainstream media. Yet if the study findings hold and if they apply to a...
View ArticleA Win-Win: Job Creation Will Grow the Economy and Improve Health
By Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D. and Mark Pinsky The current economic recovery effort presents an opportunity to build stronger, healthier communities. That’s a central goal for the Create Jobs for USA...
View ArticleWhat Does Failure Mean?
By Aaron Carroll, MD I’ve seen a number of responses to the news that the Medicare demonstration projects were not successful. Some have claimed that they were only demonstration projects, and the fact...
View ArticleMission Critical: How Translation-Focused Disease Foundations May Save...
By David Shaywitz, MD Patients waiting expectantly for medical research to produce important new cures are finding bad news almost everywhere they turn. Pharmaceutical companies are suffering from a...
View ArticleThe Anti-Hypocrisy Rule
By MARTIN SAMUELS, MD Pundits abound when it comes to health care plans. They come from many different backgrounds: conservatives, liberals, academics, business people, doctors, politicians and more...
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Improving the Affordable Care Act Markets (Part 1)
By JONATHAN HALVORSON, PhD With each passing year, the Affordable Care Act becomes further entrenched in the American health care system. There are dreams on both the far left and far right to repeal...
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$2 Trillion+ in New Taxes for Single Payer, or $50 Billion to Strengthen...
By BOB HERTZ It is not wise for Democrats to spend all their energy debating Single Payer health care solutions. None of their single player plans has much chance to pass in 2020, especially under...
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Charting The Economic History of US Health Reform
By MIKE MAGEE, MD Adam Gaffney’s recent Boston Review article, “What the Health Care Debate Still Gets Wrong”, a landmark piece that deserves careful reading by all, reaches near perfection in...
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To Improve Patient Care, Think Both “Zebras” and Golf
By MICHAEL MILLENSON Super Bowl Week ended with the San Francisco 49ers and 161 U.S. hospitals having something in common. Both were publicly penalized, both lost money as a result and both...
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Patient Worries as a Central Feature of their Health Care Experiences
By JOHN JAMES, ROBERT R. SCULLY, CASEY QUINLAN, BILL ADAMS, HELEN HASKELL, and POPPY ARFORD Political forces trying to shape and reshape American healthcare without hearing the voice of patients...
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The Primary Cares Initiative: How Value-Based Payment Models Aim to...
By CHRIS JAEGER MD, MBA In April 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the Primary Cares Initiative, which is expected to reduce administrative burdens and improve...
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A Healthcare System, If We Can Keep It
By KIM BELLARD We are in strange days, and they are only going to get stranger as COVID-19 works its way further through our society. It makes me think of Benjamin Franklin’s response when asked what...
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Defund Health Care!
By KIM BELLARD In the wake of the protests related to George Floyd’s death, there have been many calls to “defund police.” Those words come as a shock to many people, some of whom can’t imagine even...
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A Missed Opportunity for Universal Healthcare
Connie Chan Phuoc Le By PHUOC LE, MD and CONNIE CHAN The United States is known for healthcare spending accounting for a large portion of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) without yielding the...
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Your Face is Not Your Own
By KIM BELLARD I swear I’d been thinking about writing about facial recognition long before I discovered that John Oliver devoted his show last night to it. Last week I wrote about how “Defund...
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Slow Walking to Value Based Care: Why Fee for Service Still Rules
By KEN TERRY (This is the second in a series of excerpts from Terry’s new book, Physician-Led Healthcare Reform: a New Approach to Medicare for All, published by the American Association for Physician...
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Why Health Systems Employ Doctors: Money and Control
By KEN TERRY (This is the third in a series of excerpts from Terry’s new book, Physician-Led Healthcare Reform: a New Approach to Medicare for All, published by the American Association for Physician...
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THCB Gang Episode 26, 9/24
Episode 26 of “The THCB Gang” was live-streamed on Thursday, September 24th! Watch it below! Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) were some of our regulars: health futurist Ian Morrison (@seccurve),...
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Obstacles to Value-Based Care Can Be Overcome
By KEN TERRY (This is the seventh in a series of excerpts from Terry’s new book, Physician-Led Healthcare Reform: a New Approach to Medicare for All, published by the American Association for...
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