The other day the San Francisco Chronicle carried an article by their Washington correspondent in which a number of economists speculated that, for the first time, it seems reasonably possible that the United States Government is headed for a financial meltdown of the...
Two years after its landmark report on U.S. health care, the Commonwealth Fund has released an update. Vast, careful, detailed, and thoughtful, it paints a difficult picture. Most of the data is from 2006; the data of the 2006 study was mostly from...
So John McCain has been taking jabs at Barack Obama for suggesting that all employers should be forced to carry health insurance for all employees. In response, Obama's camp has come out with a new detail: A tax credit of up to 50% of the premiums for all small...
(From Hospitals and Health Networks Online, July 9, 2008)Hospitals need primary care physicians. They should hire physicians, they should buy physician practices, and they should join the retail clinic movement. At the core of any real health care reform, as well as...
