Health Care Reform: A Better Idea
By BARRY L. FISHER, MD President Obama asked anyone with a better health care reform proposal to bring it to his attention. As a physician who has practiced for the past 37 years, I have been in the...
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Stressed Out System
By ROB LAMBERTS I saw a patient today and looked back at a previous note, which said the following: “stressed out due to insurance.” It didn’t surprise me, and I didn’t find it funny; I see a lot of...
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Health Reform: A Class Act
By THOMAS GREANEY, St. Louis University School of Law A few headlines from coverage of the passage of the health reform bill: Winners, Losers in the House Healthcare Bill (Reuters) Health Reform:...
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Really Managing Care and Costs
By BRIAN KLEPPER One of my favorite health care stories is about Jerry Reeves MD, who in 2004 took the helm of a 300,000 life health plan in Las Vegas, including about 110,000 union members, and drove...
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What Good are Health Insurers?
By BILL KRAMER As the health reform effort moves into the final stages, everyone seems to be taking a whack at health insurers. Some of the insurers’ wounds are self-inflicted, such as WellPoint’s...
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The Bottom Line
By Kelly Wright, MD It’s cool. So cool, that President Obama used one. So cool, it’s been on the cover of Newsweek. It’s been in multiple television commercials, radio advertisements, highway...
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What Is the Cause of Excess Costs in US Health Care? Take Two
By Mark Hoofnagle, MD We’ve discussed it before. Why are costs so much higher in US healthcare compared to other countries? The Washington Post has a pointless article which seems to answer with the...
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Better Health Care at Half the Cost
By Joe Flower Why “half the cost?” How? Most important, what does it mean for hospitals and health systems? Here’s the argument, and some of the implications. In 1980, health care in the United States...
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Paying an Arm and a Leg for a Month of Life?
By Peter Ubel Imagine for a moment that you are an oncologist caring for a 53-year-old man with metastatic cancer, a person whose tumor has spread to lung and liver. With standard chemotherapy, this...
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Why Health Care Is Reshaping Itself
By Joe Flower Costs and revenue: This is the oxygen of any business, any organization. What are your revenue streams? How much does it cost you to produce them? Life is not just about breathing, but,...
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