cost control
Manager's Choice: Healthcare Reform Will Fail if We Don’t Reduce Costs!
What's right with the healthcare system, and why?
What's wrong with it, specifically and why?
And what would you change, (specifically) and how?
Correctly Controlling Care Costs (Series)
The Cost of Care --the Elephant in the room
A mini-series that exposes the fundamentals of reform, largely missed in the current debate.
Cost-cutting Proposals
Six groups representing doctors, hospitals, insurance companies, health care workers and drug and medical device maufacturers are discussing cost-cutting proposals with the White House. "The hospital association is one of [the] groups that went to the White House on May 11 to announce their commitment to cut $2 trillion from the growth of health spending over 10 years. President Obama hailed the announcement as 'a watershed event.'”
The following six items are reasonable and undoubtedly will appear in various forms and forums over the next few months. I list them with my reaction to each:
Controlling Costs, Costs
A New York Times article portrays physicians' frustration stemming from having to deal with the underpayment of primary care. "There is no doubt that the system for providing medical care in the country is in need of major reformation, and that the system of training the providers of that care is in need of major transformation, but the medical community needs to get a grip on their whining." Here's therapy for the mess we're in.
