by jflower | Jul 17, 2008 | Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Reform
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...
by jflower | Jul 14, 2008 | Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Policy, Systems Thinking, Universal Healthcare
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...
by jflower | Jan 15, 2008 | Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Reform
(From Hospitals and Health Networks Online, January 15, 2008) The attempt to create the Next Health Care faces a much greater threat than politics. [The growing influence of money in politics and regulation is so pervasive that it drowns out most real discussion of...