Month: July 2010

More hospital mergers

I’ve wondered what the role of non-profit hospitals will be once nearly all Americans have health insurance. The problem of uncompensated care will largely go

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Sound Medicine on the Doc Fix

Somehow I forgot to post this when it went up: One of the stories we’re watching in Washington this week has to do with something

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The downside of ACOs

The time has come to dig a bit deeper into the current vision for the future of health care in America: accountable care organizations (ACOs).

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The tanning tax has kicked in

And I’m having trouble feeling bad about it: The sun hasn’t exactly set on Solar Planet, but anxiety over the fate of the Arlington tanning

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A very brief post on Berwick

The summer is not a good time for blogging. Vacations and conferences divert my attention from the news and force me away from my computer,

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Reading list

Medicare Advantage Payment Provisions, by Brian Biles and Grace Arnold. This appears to be a must-read piece for anyone wishing to understand the implications of

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Making no sense

A reader sent me the following tweet from a prominent conservative ex-politician: Press Corps-pls do your job as Obama sneaks in Berwick appt;pls cover his

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How I blog

In one way or another, people keep asking, Doesn’t all this blogging take a lot of time? Isn’t it a lot of work? How do

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