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Unnecessary compromise | Slow national drug traceability efforts cut down states' faster efforts
By Merrill Goozner | June 08, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
It took the U.S. 8½ years to land a man on the moon but it will take more than a dozen years to accomplish the task of being able to electronically trace fake or tainted drugs back to their source.
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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 Print Magazine Subscription Details
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 Print Magazine Subscription Details
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 Print Magazine Subscription Details
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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The value in price transparency | It's time for hospitals to look inward for reasons behind cost disparity
By Merrill Goozner | May 11, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The controversy surrounding hospital pricing resurfaced last week after the CMS released hospital charges and payments for the top 100 diagnosis-related groups.
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Not big on rules | Experienced physicians turned off by intrusive intervention
By John D. Thomas | May 04, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Like many surgeons, my father is not big on rules. He sees surgery being as much a dance as a science, and, does not appreciate when non-physician bureaucrats weigh in on what he does.
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PCORI in the hot seat | New agency needs to set a bold comparative effectiveness research agenda
By Merrill Goozner | April 27, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Comparative effectiveness research—learning what works best in medicine—is a great idea whose time has come.
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Other Voices
By Modern Healthcare | April 27, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
“During the big healthcare fight, conservatives told older Americans that Obamacare was grabbing money from their Medicare and giving it to young people. Now they tell young workers that Medicare and Social Security are draining their take-home pay to support retirees sitting around the...
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Mass casualty preparedness | Boston responded in stellar fashion, but could every community do the same?
By Merrill Goozner | April 20, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Once again, a senseless act of violence has upended any notion that the war on terror will someday end and a sense of normalcy will return to national life.
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Dissecting the president's budget | Crucial agencies would barely keep up with inflation under Obama's plan
By Merrill Goozner | April 13, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
From a healthcare perspective, the release of President Barack Obama's budget last week was extremely disturbing—and not because of the new cuts it would impose on healthcare providers.
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