In “Riding” Abortion, Is Greg Abbott Driving Texas Toward Divestiture?
By MIKE MAGEE
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has been on a tear lately, and his central theme appears to be “revanchism.” Faced with declining demographics, he is retaliating against enemies and newcomers alike, aligning himself with slippery politicians and vigilantes. As they say in Texas, “He’s on a first-name basis with the bottom of the deck”, and the game he’s playing appears to be “South Africa – 1950.”
The formal establishment of apartheid in South Africa occurred in 1948, though racial injustice had been baked in centuries earlier. Violence and intimidation, embedded in legislation su...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 19, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Politics Abortion Frederick Haynes III greg abbot Mike Magee South Africa Texas Source Type: blogs
State-Based Marketplaces 2.0 – Part 1: The Coming Expansion in Access, Affordability, and Value
CONCLUSION: LOCAL SOLUTIONS ADVANCING MEANINGFUL REFORM
The ACA gives states the flexibility to implement SBMs and encourage private sector participation. The federal government is responsible for establishing coverage standards, financing subsidies, and operating the HealthCare.gov platform. But it faces some challenges when it comes to innovating.
By contrast, states can be nimble. They can tailor program offerings to meet market demands and dynamics. Factors influencing program design could also include the state’s urban/rural mix, the size of its employer base, the payer mix, social determinants of health, demo...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 18, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Obamacare Affordable Care Affordable Care Act American Rescue Plan Biden-Obama Build Back Better Act David W. Johnson Joe Biden Rosmarie Day State-based marketplaces Source Type: blogs
Case Western Reserve University School of Law: Law-Medicine Center Presented Vincent P. Daniele Speaking On The Role of Managed Care in Today ’s Healthcare System
on September 28th, 2021 - Watch Presentation Here This lecture will discussed the impact of Medicaid... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - October 15, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
The Vaccine Brawl – A Legal Battle in Process
By MIKE MAGEE
The power to mandate vaccines was litigated and resolved over a century ago. Justice John Marshall Harlin, a favorite of current Chief Justice Roberts, penned the 7 to 2 majority opinion in 1905’s Jacobson v. Massachusetts. Its impact was epic.
In 1905, Massachusetts was one of 11 states that required compulsory vaccinations. The Rev. Henning Jacobson, a Lutheran minister, challenged the city of Cambridge, MA, which had passed a local law requiring citizens to undergo smallpox vaccination or pay a $5 fine. Jacobson and his son claimed they had previously had bad reactions to the vaccine and refused to...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 6, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Public Health Biden Code Blue COVID vaccine COVID-19 vaccine covid19 Joe Biden Mike Magee the First Amendment vaccines Source Type: blogs
Never Waste a (Design) Crisis
By KIM BELLARD
The Wall Street Journal reported that the American Dental Association (ADA) opposes expanding Medicare to include dental benefits. My reaction was, well, of course they do.
They apparently don’t care that at least half, and perhaps as many as two thirds, of seniors lack dental insurance, or that one in five seniors are missing all their teeth. The ADA prefers a plan for low income Medicare beneficiaries only, although state Medicaid programs were already supposed to be that, with widely varying results between the states.
The ADA is following blindly in the AMA’s oppositi...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 28, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Design healthcare design Kim Bellard Medicare For All Source Type: blogs
American Primary Care is a Big Waste of Time (When …)
By HANS DUVEFELT
Before Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1450, books in Europe were copied by hand, mostly by monks and clergy. Ironically, they were often called scribes, the same word we now use for the new class of healthcare workers employed to improve the efficiency of physician documentation.
Think about that for a moment: American doctors are employing almost medieval methods in what is supposed to be the era of computers. Why aren’t we using AI for documentation?
The pathetically cumbersome methods of documentation available (required) for our clinical encounters is only one of several a...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 27, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Physicians Primary Care Hans Duvefelt Source Type: blogs
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Millions of Medicaid enrollees risk losing their coverage when the COVID-19 public health emergency ends. What can be done to minimize this risk?
(Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - September 24, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kinda Serafi, Cindy Mann, Nina V. Punukollu Source Type: blogs
Could smartphones and ride-sharing apps solve transportation in healthcare?
Patients living in rural, suburban or urban areas with poor infrastructure often don’t have the proper means to get to the doctor’s appointment on time. In extreme cases, they have to wait even for emergency situations so much that they can call an ambulance and receive care in a hospital.
Ridesharing companies like Uber and Lyft offer non-emergency medical transportation services, while start-ups, such as Circulation or Ride Health also promise to deal with the issue. Could smartphones and networked services solve transportation in healthcare?
Why is getting to the doctor such a hassle?
Wherever they...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 23, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Future of Medicine Health Insurance Healthcare Design Telemedicine & Smartphones Hospital patient startup transportation uber lyft ride-hailing medical transportation NEMT Circulation Kaizen Helth Veyo Ambulnz RoundTrip Source Type: blogs
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Millions of people stand to lose their Medicaid coverage once special federal pandemic rules for continuous Medicaid enrollment protection come to an end.
(Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - September 22, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sara Rosenbaum Source Type: blogs
Roger Chou ’s Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest: How the CDC’s 2016 Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain Lost Its Clinical and Professional Integrity
by Chad D. Kollas MD, Terri A. Lewis PhD, Beverly Schechtman and Carrie Judy“I ' m present. Uh … I do have a conflict. I receive funding to conduct reviews on opioids, and I ' ll be recusing myself after the um, director ' s, uh, um, um, uh … update.”- Dr. Roger Chou, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC) Meeting Friday, July 16, 2021.IntroductionFor those familiar with the controversial relationship between the anti-opioid advocacy group, Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP, recently renamed, He...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - September 17, 2021 Category: Palliative Care Tags: CDC judy kollas lewis opioid pain schechtman Source Type: blogs
Roger Chou s Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest: How the CDCs 2016 Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain Lost Its Clinical and Professional Integrity
by Chad D. Kollas MD, Terri A. Lewis PhD, Beverly Schechtman and Carrie JudyI ' m present. Uh I do have a conflict. I receive funding to conduct reviews on opioids, and I ' ll be recusing myself after the um, director ' s, uh, um, um, uh update.- Dr. Roger Chou, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC) Meeting Friday, July 16, 2021.IntroductionFor those familiar with the controversial relationship between the anti-opioid advocacy group, Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP, recently renamed, Health Pro...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - September 17, 2021 Category: Palliative Care Tags: CDC judy kollas lewis opioid pain schechtman Source Type: blogs
Recommendations From the Coalition for Physician Accountability ’s UME-to-GME Review Committee: Winners & Losers Edition
This article originally appeared on The Sheriff of Sodium here. (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 17, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Education Medical Practice Bryan Carmody coalition for physician accountability Residency Source Type: blogs
Policies, Techies, VCS: Musings From a Futurist
By IAN MORRISON
I should’ve been in Paris last week on vacation with my wife, instead I listened in to the Policies Techies VCS: What’s Next For Healthcare conference (I’ll explain why later). Matthew Holt and Jessica DaMassa did a magnificent job of assembling the Who’s Who of digital health tech to wax lyrical about what the new kids on the block were up to, where it is all headed, and what it will mean for the system. (Full disclosure Matthew and Jess are friends of mine, I hired Matthew from Stanford almost 30 years ago to join the Institute For The Future (IFTF) and have watched proudly as he ha...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 14, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Health Tech Futurists Ian Morrison Policies Techies VCs Source Type: blogs
President Biden ’s New Vaccine Mandate Might Have Unintended Consequences
Jeffrey A. SingerThe Washington Postreports that President Biden will announce this afternoon that he will require all government employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or face possible termination. They will not be exempt from the requirement if they agree to frequent testing.The administration also plans to mandate that all businesses with 100 or more employees require their employees to get vaccinated or take weekly COVID tests. Finally, it will use its leverage to mandate that all hospitals receiving Medicaid or Medicare funds vaccinate their workers.I don ’t believe the government has the right toforce individ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 9, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
