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Category Archives: Healthcare
May 18, 2013
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Swiss System Offers Hints About US Under Obamacare
Readers trying to understand how Obamacare will transform our health care system should look to Switzerland. Bloomberg profiles the Swiss health care system, which is perhaps the closest global equivalent to what our health care market will become under the ACA. Like Obamacare, … Continue reading
May 16, 2013
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Obamacare Slowing Job Growth, at Least for Now
A new Gallup poll reveals small business owners as wary about the Affordable Care Act. Forty-eight percent of the 603 small business respondents think that Obamacare will be “bad for [their] business.” Fifty-two percent said the ACA will reduce the … Continue reading
May 15, 2013
ESSAY
The End of Health Insurance as We Know It?
Up to one-third of independently practicing physicians in the US may soon stop using health insurance as we have come to think of it. Kaiser Health News reports on attempts by health care practices to change how they do business as a result of … Continue reading
May 14, 2013
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Obamacare Kicks Young Men While They’re Down
Young men will be the biggest losers in the transition to Obamacare, according to a new report by the actuarial and consulting firm Milliman. The report estimates that males as a whole will see an 11 percent increase in insurance premiums, while females as … Continue reading
May 9, 2013
ESSAY
Something’s Rotten in Single-Payer England
The head of a British health care regulatory body is sounding warning bells about the drastic overuse of the country’s emergency rooms. The Daily Telegraph reports: Too many patients — especially the elderly — are arriving in hospital as an … Continue reading
ESSAY
The One Technology That Could Save $8.3 Billion in Health Care Costs
A new study has found the better adoption of just one technology could drastically increase the efficiency of US health care professionals—and it’s not some fancy new imaging technology or robotic surgery. It’s texting. USA Today: The study, sponsored by tech security firm … Continue reading
May 8, 2013
ESSAY
Nobody Has Any Idea What’s Going on in Our Health Care System
The federal government has just released new data about Medicare reimbursement rates showing that the price of treatments vary widely from hospital to hospital. The data, drawn from 3,300 hospitals across the country, looked at how much each facility charged … Continue reading
May 7, 2013
ESSAY
Big Data, Market-Based Reforms Lowering Health Care Costs
News that spending on health care has slowed down has been making the rounds over the past few weeks. This is a big deal, given our recent history with out of control health care costs, but the story within the … Continue reading
ESSAY
NYT Pins Obamacare Hopes on Robbing the Young
The NYT published a news piece today on the Affordable Care Act that accuses Republicans of “preparing to exploit every problem that arises” with Obamacare in the next midterm elections. The most telling part of the piece comes at the … Continue reading
May 4, 2013
ESSAY
Med Tech Roundup: The Amazing Accidential Apple Health Care Revolution
While policymakers and DC wonks were debating top-down reforms to our health care system, a health care revolution was quietly taking place. Daily Finance reports on how Apple technology, while not originally designed with health care applications in mind, has already … Continue reading
May 3, 2013
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Shocker: Big New Health Care Study Proves Everyone Right
A new study on the efficacy of Medicaid has all sides running the spin machine overtime. On Wednesday, The New England Journal of Medicine released a report comparing the health outcomes of thousands of Medicaid patients in Oregon to an … Continue reading
April 30, 2013
ESSAY
Health Care Is Too Important to Entrust to Humans
Forget botched surgery and hospital-borne infections: the biggest danger during your time as a patient is when your doctor is talking to you. The WSJ reports on a new study out of John Hopkins: Researchers at Johns Hopkins University looked at … Continue reading
April 26, 2013
ESSAY
Robots to Health Care Workers: Give Us Your Jobs, Please
Mid-level hospital jobs that don’t require a Bachelor’s Degree are quickly disappearing. The WSJ reports: Positions such as licensed practical nurses and medical-records clerks are being eliminated or pushed out of hospitals into lower-paying corners of the field such as nursing homes. … Continue reading
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Obamacare Has Democrats Nervous about Their Political Future
The trickle of Democrats getting shifty about Obamacare is quickly becoming a flood. Yesterday leading Democrats spent an hour at a senatorial lunch grilling President Obama’s Chief of Staff about the rollout of the health care law. Some were upset … Continue reading
April 25, 2013
ESSAY
Conclusive Proof That Obamacare Is Brilliant Legislation
Congressional lawmakers and aides are considering exempting themselves from the mandate to enroll in the health care exchanges the ACA sets up. Hill leaders have been holding confidential meetings for months, trying to weigh the PR costs of exempting themselves … Continue reading
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