What You Earn and How Long You Live
I was recently surprised when I received the free publication online from JAMA of the “The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014” by Chetty, et. al. An added bonus to the JAMA paper was the discovery that the New York Times...
In Defense of Lean
Rarely do you see a clinician, researcher, teacher, philosopher, ethicist and writer all bundled up in one person inside one white coat. Jerome Groopman has been such a person. Dr. Groopman and his wife Dr. Pamela Hartzband, an endocrinologist, are one of healthcare’s...
Golden Age of Medicare and Medicaid
Medicare and Medicaid are now fifty years old. I suspect they are the two programs that much of the healthcare establishment still loves to hate the most. Lyndon Johnson’s signing on July 30, 1965 of the Social Security Amendments of 1965, created two landmark...
Another Hurdle Cleared at the Supreme Court!
Thanks to the Supreme Court, healthcare reform has cleared another hurdle. At 10:21 AM yesterday, as I was writing this week’s letter a banner appeared on my screen: NPR:Breaking News–Supreme Court Rules Obamacare Subsidies Are Legal Just seven words but...
Pioneer ACOs’ Successful Efforts
Recently the Boston Globe published the much-anticipated results of the independent actuarial accounting of the results of the first two years of the Pioneer ACOs program of CMMI.(Click here to read the whole article.) I find it impossible to read this without wanting...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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