David St. Clair
04:54 pm
November 03, 2009
Aside from the healthcare reform bill being passed by the Senate Finance Committee, the other big story on the reform front last week may have been the report AHIP released finding, among other things, that the legislation in its current form would significantly raise the price of premiums for most consumers. (I discussed the AHIP report and a...
03:43 pm
September 25, 2009
Whole Foods co-founder and CEO John Mackey contributed a very compelling commentary on healthcare reform to the Aug. 12 Wall Street Journal.
04:09 pm
August 21, 2009
The "meaningful use" issue has been attracting a lot of attention in healthcare reform efforts lately. In very broad strokes, the debate stems from a provision in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) that allocates funding for physicians who are deemed to be meaningful users of electronic health records by 2011.
11:10 am
July 31, 2009
A recent article in The Washington Post , headlined “Frequent Fliers’ Add Billions to Hospital Bills,” discusses the frequent flier phenomenon – a condition of our healthcare system that I have been tracking closely for some time.
03:32 pm
July 01, 2009
Recently I attented the Tenth Annual Innovation 2009 Conference in California. One of the issues garnering a lot of attention was the notion that the Obama healthcare reform plan could ultimately wind up creating a government-run insurer.
