Doesn’t any talk about a “cheaper” future of healthcare mean a huge loss of jobs? A fair question, but the answer is not as simple as you might think. In most communities, the hospital is one of the largest employers, if not the largest, and...
From Hospitals and Health Networks Online, September 9, 2008 Toward a value-based health care system. Do you get what you pay for in health care? How can you tell? What if you could tell?However we re-organize the payment of health care in the United States over the...
When John McCain talks about healthcare on the campaign trail, he often challenges people who point to Canada’s universal healthcare system as preferable to the U.S. system to “ask the Canadians how much they like it.” That’s a fair challenge....
The idea that government-run or government-financed healthcare is less efficient, more restrictive, or less responsive to the patient is a widespread belief – and there is not a shred of evidence for it. Take a look at this YouTube clip from a "Town...
Are you a white-knuckle flier? My sympathy. Planes are scary and dangerous. But let’s see: In the last 10 years, a passenger has stepped onto a U.S. airline about 7 billion times. How many of those 7 billion times did the passenger...
We are all going super-size: Researchers at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health examined trends of the last decade or so, ran a sophisticated "projection analysis," and popped out some numbers (the report is on their web site). By 2030, 86% of Americans...
