Why Hillarycare failed …and what we need to learn from that failure
By MATTHEW HOLT
In July 2005 George W Bush had relatively recently won a Presidential election in which the Republican won the popular vote (something that will likely never happen again) & the Republicans controlled all three branches of Government. Those of us liberals at the bottom of a dark trench were wondering if and how we’d get to health reform. So in another reprint to celebrate THCB’s 15th birthday, here was my then take on what went wrong in 1994 and what would happen next–Matthew Holt
There are lots of versions about what killed the 1993-4 health care reform effort. Hillary C...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 14, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Matthew Holt HillaryCare Source Type: blogs
As I ’ve always suspected, Health Care = Communism + Frappuccinos
By MATTHEW HOLT
Happy 15th birthday THCB! Yes, 15 years ago today this little blog opened for business and changed my life (and at least impacted a few others). Later this week we are going to celebrate and tell you a bit more about what the next 15 years (really?) of THCB might look like. But for now, I’m rerunning a few of my favorite pieces from the mid-2000s, the golden age of blogging. Today I present “Health Care = Communism + Frappuccinos”, one of my favorites about the relationship between government and private sector originally published here on Jan7, 2005. And like the Medicare one from last we...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 12, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Matthew Holt OP-ED 15th Birthday Celebration Commumism Frappuchinos Source Type: blogs
The First Post: What ’s Wrong with Medicare?
By MATTHEW HOLT
So The Health Care Blog (which I like to think of as the first proper health care blog whatever Jacob Reider says about his Docnotes which started in 1999!) is 15 yrs old this month. This is the start of our little anniversary celebration. We are going to be running some of the earlier classic posts. The very first post on “What’s wrong with Medicare” still rings true- Matthew Holt
For the first post, don’t expect a big essay despite that subject line. It came up because while I was away from the US for the first part of this year, yet another incarnation of NME or HCA — the two ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 8, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Health Care ’s Third Wave
By DAVID M. CORDANI
Change and American health care have become synonymous. “Change” can be exciting and life-altering when it refers to the innovative new therapies and treatments that improve or extend life, many of those originating in the United States. Change, though, can be a tremendous source of anxiety for families concerned with the affordability of care and stability in their health care coverage choices. It is the tension between these two definitions of change that the United States has struggled to solve over the past three decades.
As we have all witnessed, the health care marketplace has gone through two...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 3, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Cigna Hospitals manage care medical cost sustainable health care system Source Type: blogs
Who Cares About the Doctor-Patient Relationship? A Review of “ Next In Line: Lowered Care Expectations in the Age of Retail- and Value-Based Health ”
By KIP SULLIVAN, JD
A mere two decades ago, the headlines were filled with stories about the “HMO backlash.” HMOs (which in the popular media meant most insurance companies) were the subject of cartoons, the butt of jokes by comedians, and the target of numerous critical stories in the media. They were even the bad guys in some movies and novels. Some defenders of the insurance industry claimed the cause of the backlash was the negative publicity and doctors whispering falsehoods about managed care into the ears of their patients. That was nonsense. The industry had itself to blame.
The primary cause of the backlash w...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 30, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Patients Physicians care advocates Next In Line: Lowered Care Expectations in the Age of Retail- and Value-Based Health patient-provider relationship Value-Based Payment Source Type: blogs
Spin it Again - Four More Go Through the Revolving Door From the World of Corporate Health Care to Top US Government Leadership Positions
DiscussionSo this round of revolving door transitions featured a top pharmaceutical company researcher going to a leadership position at the NIH, which was considered long ago as a producer or unbiased science; and one physician-manager and two pure managers going from big management consultancies to DHHS. All these consultancies seem to have thriving businesses working with big commercial health care firms. So the Trump regime continues to stock top health care leadership positions with people from the commercial health care world. These leadership positions will allow them to to control contracting with, poli...
Source: Health Care Renewal - July 27, 2018 Category: Health Management Tags: CMS conflicts of interest DHHS Donald Trump Eli Lilly McKinsey NIH revolving doors Veterans Affairs Source Type: blogs
Maine Voices: Want better, less complicated health insurance? Push the narrative, not the name
This article was originally published on Press Herald. (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 17, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Patients Physicians Trump's Health Health insurance health insurance premiums single-payer system Source Type: blogs
Health Wonk Review - upcoming hosts
2018 Schedule
August 23 - Julie Ferguson, Workers Comp Insider
September 20 - Andrew Sprung - xpostfactoid
October 18 - Joe Paduda, Managed Care Matters
November 15 - TBA
December 13 - TBA (Source: Health Wonk Review)
Source: Health Wonk Review - July 12, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: blogs
Health Wonk Review Archives: 2006-2018
September 27, 2018 - Andrew Sprung - xpostfactoid
August 23, 2018 - Julie Ferguson at Workers Comp Insider
July 12, 2018 - Peggy Salvatore at Health System Ed
June 14, 2018 - Hank Stern at InsureBlog
May 17, 2018 - Jason Shafrin Healthcare Economist
April 19, 2018 - Louise Norris - Colorado Health Insurance Insider
March 15, 2018 - David Williams - Health Business Blog
February 15, 2018 - Steve Anderson - HealthInsurance.org blog
January 18, 2018 - Joe Paduda, Managed Care Matters
December 14, 2017 - Julie Ferguson - Workers Comp Insider
November 30, 2017 - Andrew Sprung - xpostfactoid.
November 9, 2017 - Jaso...
Source: Health Wonk Review - July 10, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: blogs
Strategies to Improve Health Outcomes for People Living with HIV
To provide state officials with tools and resources, including issue briefs, webinars and presentations, the National Academy for State Health Policy — in cooperation with the Health Resources and Services Administration, and partnerships with 19 states — has made available an updated toolkit, State Strategies to Improve Health Outcomes for People Living with HIV. Resources included are how to use data to improve health outcomes of people living with HIV, partnering with providers and managed care organizations, cross-agency data sharing, and working with health departments.
(Source: BHIC)
Source: BHIC - June 27, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Patricia Devine Tags: HIV/AIDS Public Health Source Type: blogs
Health care is making the classic mistake that many startups make
Before managed care became the dominant force that it is, patients and doctors had the opportunity to get to know each other well. Doctors treated multiple generations within families. This helped establish a strong bond among patients and their doctors.
While it might have intended to mean preventing expensive care, managed care began to mean organized care. Run by institutions such as health maintenance organizations.
Insurances began to decide which doctors you could see. If you changed jobs or if your employer changed insurance plans, you had to change your doctor again.
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 23, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/praveen-suthrum" rel="tag" > Praveen Suthrum < /a > Tags: Policy Practice Management Public Health & Source Type: blogs
Dander Still Up. Drowning in Great Dismal Swamp. Film at Eleven.
Maybe this is the last in my series of dander-raising essays, as recent national and world events have most definitely left so many of us with a raging case of TDS. (Trump Derangement Syndrome, look it up it ' s a thing).So many damned browser tabs open. So little time.Or maybe not. Who knows. Where are all these suicides coming from?My editor keeps telling me, " don ' t let it make you paralytic. " Hey, I ' m trying.Just sensing a kind of coalescence in all the corruption our bloggers keep writing about. How do we even differentiate these activities across so many sectors of society. We were going to see our swamp drained...
Source: Health Care Renewal - June 12, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: blogs
Health Wonk Review - upcoming hosts
2018 Schedule
June 14 - Hank Stern - InsureBlog
July 12 - Peggy Salvatore - Health System Ed Blog
August 16 - TBA
September 20 - TBA
October 18 - Joe Paduda, Managed Care Matters
November 15 - TBA
December 13 - Julie Ferguson, Workers Comp Insider (Source: Health Wonk Review)
Source: Health Wonk Review - June 11, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: blogs
The Not-Quite Annual ASCO Round-Up - 2018 edition
by Drew RosielleTheAmerican Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting, besides being a feast for the pharmaceutical business news pages (google ' ASCO ' and most of the hits will be about how announcement X affected drug company Y ' s stock), is also one of the premiere platforms for publishing original palliative-oncology research. So every year I try to at least scan the abstracts to see what ' s happening, and I figure I might as well blog about it. It ' s tough to analyze abstracts, so I ' ll mostly just be summarizing ones that I think will be of interest to hospice and palliative care folks. I imagine I ' ve missed...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - June 6, 2018 Category: Palliative Care Tags: artificial nutrition ASCO cannabanoid code status conference reviews fatigue hpmglobal marijuana mindfulness mucositis neuropathic oncology pain race rosielle scrambler Source Type: blogs
