The Need for Better Self-Policing
Two news stories this week raise serious concerns about the effectiveness of systems intended to act upon physicians and nurses who don’t meet adequate standards for providing patient care. • A...
View ArticleMore Warning Calls about Physician Shortages
Yesterday, the Arkansas surgeon general told a state legislative committee that the state’s physician shortage would be worsening once health reform is implemented. Dr. Joe Thompson testified that 80...
View ArticleNPR Looks At the Nation’s Primary Care Challenge
Our country’s shortage of primary care physicians is going to be felt more acutely in the years to come, as a result of both health reform – which will bring millions more newly-insured Americans into...
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The Deficit Commission and Healthcare
The Washington Post and New York Times are ablaze today with top-of-the-page headlines about the proposals being made by the co-chairs of President Obama’s bipartisan commission on deficit reduction....
View ArticleHealth Reform and Academic Medical Centers
Dr. Herb Pardes, the president and chief executive officer of New York-Presbyterian Hospital (and a member of the Healthcare Leadership Council), spoke yesterday at the National Press Club and made a...
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Change to: The Debate We Need
The Republican presidential candidates who participated in last night’s Iowa debate put on quite an interesting, as well as entertaining, show. With political analysts pointing out that this weekend’s...
View ArticleA New Look at Healthcare Access
When we talk about people who don’t have access to healthcare, there’s a natural assumption that it’s because they can’t afford it. A new study shows that’s not necessarily the case. According to the...
View ArticleThe Medicaid X Factor
As a study published in Health Affairs this week points out, anyone who believes they have a handle on what will happen when Medicaid undergoes an unprecedented expansion this decade is kidding...
View ArticleGood News on the Workforce Front
There are numerous concerns these days about the nation’s supply of medical professionals to meet America’s growing elderly population as well as the millions of citizens who will gain health coverage...
View ArticleThe Healthcare Jobs Concern
The October jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed unemployment inching up from 7.2 percent in the September report to 7.3 percent today. That, however, wasn’t the most significant...
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