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Legislators in Washington all claim they want to hold down healthcare spending, recognizing it is the main driver of the nation's long-term deficit.
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New research published last week calls into question the current structure of Medicare's Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program.
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“President Barack Obama began his second term … with a speech that recalled the words of the founders and civil rights pioneers to challenge the American people to come together to realize the dreams of earlier generations.
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The worse-than-normal flu season brings to the fore a troublesome issue: Should health workers be forced to get the annual influenza vaccine?
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It's too soon to pop the Champagne corks on healthcare spending. But the latest evidence suggests the slowdown is real and not just recession-related.
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“Americans don't particularly like government, but they do want government to subsidize their healthcare. They believe that healthcare spending improves their lives more than any other public good … Americans opposed any cuts to Medicare by a margin of 70% to 25%. In a democracy, voters...
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An analysis by Modern Healthcare would seem to bear out the contention that something is amiss with value-based purchasing, at least as it is currently structured.
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How sad that it took Newtown, Connecticut's horrific tragedy to finally focus the nation's attention on two pressing public health problems.
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“Danbury Hospital received two children and one adult. … When we announced that there would be no more transports and all of the patients who would be coming were already here, there was enormous sadness. Everyone recognized what that meant. We had been told at least 24 had been shot.
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Anything done in haste isn't likely to stand the test of time, especially when it comes to fundamentally restructuring the nation's signature healthcare programs.
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