Bad Medicine: How The AMA Undermined Primary Care in America - Brian Klepper
Bad Medicine: How The AMA Undermined Primary Care in America - Brian Klepper
On Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal website, Dr. Benjamin Brewer describes physicians’ reactions to the 10.1% cut in Medicare physician payments that will take effect January 1. He argues that the onus will fall, once again, disproportionately on primary care physicians,…
HEALTH 2.0: Creating a Universal Individual Healthcare Identifier By Barry Hieb
For many years it has been widely acknowledged that there are many benefits which could be realized by healthcare through the creation of a system of unique individual healthcare identifiers. These identifiers could enable the creation of a comprehensive medical…
POLITICS: President Obama’s Health care head fake
So unlike Paul Krugman who’s just being critical of Obama’s lack of a mandate, over at Spot-on I think I see the political brilliance behind it–or am I just deluding myself? Come back here to comment of course: It’s a…
Look at How Safe [Fill in the Blank] Is by Bob Wachter
But is it as simple as that really? Perhaps not. In the commentary that follows, Bob Wachter has a very different take on the airline analogy. Analogies are useful things, true, he argues. But perhaps not as useful as the…