Just when American healthcare system seems so dysfunctional that it seems impossible to imagine how it could be screwed up further, a decision is made that restores one’s faith in the creativity of Man. But before you run out of guesses as to which particular decision we’re talking about today, we’ll just blurt it out. We are referring to last week’s decision by Washington State
In recent weeks, President Obama offered to do for higher education what the government has done for healthcare: become more heavily involved in deciding who gets what, and at what price. “In his Jan. 24 State of the Union address, the president warned colleges and universities that he was putting them ‘on notice,’ adding: ‘If you can’t stop tuition from going up, the funding you
In our last Road to Hellth post, we looked two of the four ”value-based payment” demonstrations whose results were recently reported by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). These demonstrations are important because they represent the best thinking that Medicare can muster with respect to how to reduce healthcare costs and make things all better on the American healthcare front. In particular, they represent the Affordable
This past week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released two reports summarizing the results of 14 major demonstration projects aimed at improving the “quality” and/or reducing the cost of care provided to Medicare patients. These fell into two broad categories: disease management and care coordination demonstrations, and “value-based payment” projects. Both types of projects are of enormous importance to the future of the Affordable Care
Earlier this month a physician social networking website asked its subscribers to weigh in on a survey supplied by a “client” who was looking for some help with a perplexing problem. We’re forbidden under the website’s terms of use from publishing the exact post, but it went something like this: The Affordable Care (“ObamaCare”) Act requires Medicare to expand its “Physician Compare” Directory tool. This
 
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