Many conservatives believe that George W. Bush betrayed their cause. Exhibit A, these conservatives say, is the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003. That law established Medicare's prescription-drug benefit plan without offsetting spending cuts or tax increases, adding $16 trillion to our unfunded liabilities. And yet, if media reports are to be bel...Read More
Guest Post by Neil Minkoff, MD.* Medicare's payment system hinders innovation in health care. How? Government is harmful to medical innovation by setting so much of the reimbursement process. By being, by far, the largest payer of healthcare claims in America, the Medicare fee schedule drives the market for all other private payers. In essence, ......Read More
Allscripts is settling in for a fight against one of its largest shareholders. HealthCor has sued the electronic health record company to launch a proxy fight, according to Reuters. Last month, the health care investment firm had filed a Notice of Exempt Solicitation with the SEC, asking that Allscripts' chief executive resign. Tullman has refused....Read More
? Investors Service raised its rating on ?s debt to investment grade this afternoon, an important milestone that will allow the carmaker to get its Blue Oval trademark out of hock. In 2006, Ford pledged its famous logo, along with virtually all of its U.S. assets, as collateral to secure a $23.5 billion loan in .....Read More
Last week, Towers Watson bought Extend , which allows retirees to choose from thousands of private Medicare plans according to their needs, instead of having their employer make the decision. Towers paid $435 million. One of the winners in that transaction was venture capital firm Psilos, which made in five years 10 times its investment .....Read More
New voice controls let motorists speak naturally to send and receive email and texts, buy songs and listen to the day's headlines. You still can't buy shoes while driving, though...Read More
We understand that it would make no sense to buy auto insurance after we've already crashed our car. We appreciate that it would be strange to buy homeowner's insurance after our house has already burned down. And yet, when it comes to health coverage, many of us think that it makes perfect sense to wait until we're sick to buy health insurance. If...Read More
At a taping of the Dr. Oz Show on Saturday, Dr. Mehmet Oz and 75 laptop-wielding medical students entered clinical information on 1,000 patients into an electronic health record, courtesy of Practice Fusion, a provider of free web-based EHRs. The location was 's School of Medicine. Combing for indicators of heart disease and diabetes, they .....Read More
There's been a bit of a flap in the media this week about what House Republicans are planning to do regarding health care reform once the Supreme Court rules on Obamacare. But the back-and-forth leaves unanswered an important question: given all of the possible SCOTUS scenarios, what should Congress do to optimize the outcome for people with a stak...Read More
?? The Car: 2013??Mercedes-Benz SL 550 Where I drove it: Downtown , Pasadena, and the Hollywood Hills. First Impressions: ??It was a dramatic moment when the valet pulled up in the creamy-white 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL550 ??? and I soaked it up.??Let me set the scene:??The Standard Los Angeles??valet lot is just steps away from the .....Read More
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