Medicare, Medicaid, Global Warming and Gun Control– Can Liberals and...
In a nation divided, “compromise” has become an extraordinarily appealing idea. Weary of the acrimony and endless wrangling, more and more Americans are asking: Why can’t conservative and liberal...
View ArticleA Centrist Perspective: Makers and Takers, Obamacare, and the Path Forward
Below, a guest post from Stephen Reid, Managing Partner at Pharmspective, a market research firm that provides advisory services to healthcare and pharmaceutical companies on strategic issues including...
View ArticleThe Nation is Divided, Not between Whites and Minorities, But between the...
Women, minorities, and young people re-elected President Obama. Pundits have pointed out that the president won only 39 percent of the vote among whites—down from 43 percent four years ago. But exit...
View ArticleObama Wins Round One of Budget Negotiations
CNN is reporting that the “Fiscal cliff deal is down to wrangling over the details.” While others in the media continue to say that talks are stalled, everything I know about both the economics and the...
View ArticleHealth Wonk Review-The Holiday Edition
On this last holiday week-end, I hope many of you will have the time to read the newest edition of Health Wonk Review, a round-up of some of the best health care posts of the past two weeks. This...
View ArticleHealth Wonk Review –Waste, Warnings and the Future
Last week I hosted Health Wonk Review for HIO. This round-up of some of the health care posts published over the past two weeks includes: – A piece by Managed Care Matter’s Joe Paduda that takes a...
View ArticleObama to Boehner: “John, I’m Getting Tired of Hearing You Say That”
This was President Obama’s reply, during fiscal cliff negotiations, when House Speaker John Boehner declared, for the umpteenth time, that “ The U.S. has a spending problem.” I can understand the...
View ArticleMore Stories from “Pulse—voices from the heart of medicine”
Every Friday, thousands of readers smile when they see an e-mail from Pulse: voices from the heart of medicine in their in-box. Pulse is a free, online magazine that publishes riveting, often moving,...
View ArticleExpanding Medicaid Is Not Enough–Making Medicaid A Federal Program
Note to readers—please read the post below, “Pulse—More Stories from the Heart of Medicine” (which includes “One More Child Left Behind”) before you read this post. When I read “One More Child Left...
View ArticleThe Affordable Care Act and the Smokers’ Penalty
Under the ACA smokers buying insurance in the Exchanges will have to pay a 50% “Premium Surcharge.” For a 55-year-old smoker, the penalty could reach nearly $4,250 a year....
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