Healthcare Mandate and Healthcare Reform Infographic
The US news world is covering this week’s supreme court hearings on the constitutionality of the healthcare reform law, also known as the Accountable Care Act (ACA). No doubt the ruling of the supreme...
View ArticleSen. Whitehouse, make some more noise, please
I have railed more often than I can count against politicians and the national media for misleading or at least failing to inform the public on what health reform is all about. For me, it was quite...
View ArticleHealth reform is so much more than insurance
The headline above shouldn’t surprise regular readers or anyone who knows me. I’ve been saying for a couple of years to anyone who asks me about “Obamacare” or any other aspect of healthcare reform—and...
View ArticleACA decision is a beginning, not an end, to health reform
I’ve spent a lot of time on social media since Thursday morning debating the meaning of the Supreme Court’s rather stunning decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. It was stunning...
View ArticleMost ‘sentinel events’ caused by poor communication
LOS ANGELES—I’m on the west coast now, first for the USC Body Computing Conference here Friday, and then for the annual Health 2.0 conference up in San Francisco Monday and Tuesday. Friday there was a...
View ArticleHealth Wonk Review gets hung up on insurance
The last edition of Health Wonk Review prior to the Nov. 6 presidential election falls into the familiar big-media trap of portraying the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare,...
View ArticleChart: Current state telemedicine legislation
Here’s a handy chart from the American Telemedicine Association showing the current status of telemedicine legislation in all 50 states plus D.C. Specifically, it shows which states have already...
View ArticleAbout that Friedman editorial
Did you happen to catch Thomas Friedman’s commentary in Sunday’s New York Times entitled, “Obamacare’s Other Surprise”? On first read, I gave it a big “Duh!” for the explanation that the Patient...
View Article‘Bitter Pill’ only tells half the story
I finally got around to finishing “Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us,” the 24,000-word special report about healthcare costs that took up the entire feature section of the Feb. 20 edition...
View ArticleAbout those Obamacare numbers and the ICD-10 delay
While I’ve been busy writing a couple of stories on different topics, you’ve probably heard two pieces of news that will affect healthcare providers nationwide: the close of the first open enrollment...
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