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The flap greeting Mitt Romney’s cheerful admission that as president he’d defund Big Bird’s nesting place on public television could turn out to be good news for a federal agency promoting safe medical care that faces a similar extinction threat. But we won’t know till after the election whether the […]
By Michael Millenson There is a corner of the health care industry where rancor is rare, the chance to banish illness beckons just a few mouse clicks away and talk revolves around venture deals, not voluminous budget deficits. Welcome to the realm of Internet-enabled health apps. Politicians and profit-seeking entrepreneurs alike enthuse about the benefits […]
What this ruling really gives Obama the opportunity to do is rediscover the benefits of politics, democracy and leading the American people.
If conservatives on the Supreme Court overturn the ACA, they should do it with the “all deliberate speed” they applied to segregation (another federal vs. states rights conflict). That should let health reform continue until at least the mid-century
If conservatives on the Supreme Court overturn the ACA, they should do it with the “all deliberate speed” they applied to segregation (another federal vs. states rights conflict). That should let health reform continue until at least the mid-century
Hospital execs are walking a tightrope over a cost-quality chasm to bring their organizations safely from a world of pay-for-volume to pay-for-value health care.
Hospital execs are walking a tightrope over a cost-quality chasm to bring their organizations safely from a world of pay-for-volume to pay-for-value health care.
When my mother died back in 1993, the best way to alert the community was to get the local newspaper to run a news item people would see when they scanned the morning headlines. Unfortunately, our hometown paper was The Washington Post. The Post obitua…
The protest organized by Regina Holliday over a patient’s right to access their medical information has intriguing similarities to the crusade Rosa Parks launched against segregated buses back in the 1950s. Both involve a refusal to accept second-class status and a resolve to push back against entrenched institutions.
The protest organized by Regina Holliday over a patient’s right to access their medical information has intriguing similarities to the crusade Rosa Parks launched against segregated buses back in the 1950s. Both involve a refusal to accept second-class status and a resolve to push back against entrenched institutions.