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Postponing the reckoning | Employer-based coverage is falling—a fact overlooked in latest controversy

By Merrill Goozner | July 13, 2013 | Print Magazine

The Obama administration's one-year delay in the employer mandate continues to generate confused and contradictory responses that ignore the collapse of the employer-based insurance system.
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Fears balloon over reform | But benefits of healthcare overhaul likely to gain momentum

By Merrill Goozner | June 15, 2013 | Print Magazine

As it gets closer to the launch of the insurance expansion under healthcare reform, the voices of doom grow louder.
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Variation matters | But its elimination is more critical to improve outcomes than saving money

By Merrill Goozner | June 01, 2013 | Print Magazine

One of the most frequently trumpeted “truths” in healthcare policy research is that the system is larded with waste, perhaps as much as 30% of all spending.
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A credible IRS is crucial | Attacks seek to undermine agency's ability to roll out reform law

By Merrill Goozner | May 25, 2013 | Print Magazine

It didn't take long for the IRS scandal to metastasize. Last week, the mid-level bureaucrat at the center of the mushrooming affair invoked her constitutional right to avoid self-incrimination.
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Scandal outbreak | Survival of reform depends on how administration weathers the storm

By Merrill Goozner | May 18, 2013 | Print Magazine

Washington is again in the grip of scandal fever with the Benghazi e-mails, the IRS targeting of conservative groups, and allegations that HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius shook down healthcare firms.
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Cost sustainability | If payment reform fails, tie spending per beneficiary to GDP

By Dr. Manoj Jain and Dr. Bill Frist | May 18, 2013 | Print Magazine

We have done it. We have decreased the increase in the cost of healthcare. Let us explain. For three decades (1980–2009), the cost of healthcare has been increasing each year at an average rate of 7.4%—double the rate of inflation. However, over the past three years, the increase in...
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Geographic disparity | Excluding some of the poorest from health reform shouldn't be an option

By Dr. Patricia Gabow | May 11, 2013 | Print Magazine

One of the most disturbing challenges faced by American healthcare is the enormous geographic variability in both access and quality. We are one nation, and no matter which state we live in, we are all Americans. But (to paraphrase Bono) where we live actually determines if we live.
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Focus on value | Hospitals, patients benefit when providers treat quality like a financial report

By Leah Binder | April 27, 2013 | Print Magazine

"Of all the transformations reshaping American healthcare, none is more profound than the shift toward value.”
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Behind those rising rates | Few understand that decent health insurance costs more

By Merrill Goozner. | March 30, 2013 | Print Magazine

A new study predicts that people who already buy their own health insurance plans will face huge premium hikes when the exchanges created by the reform law open for business later this year.
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Time for a new 'vital sign' | Providers should monitor patients' physical activity in battle against obesity

By Dr. Elizabeth Joy | March 30, 2013 | Print Magazine

Half of all adult Americans are expected to be obese by 2030, and already more than 40 million adults do not meet appropriate physical activity levels. The challenge of addressing obesity and physical inactivity requires new thinking and monitoring by healthcare providers.
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