Friday, January 20, 2012

No, Doctors Don't Hate Obamacare

Source: The New Republic
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Study examines how doctors and patients see health care

Source: USA Today

Doctors and patients agree on many of the key issues facing the future of health care, a study to be released today shows, but that's where much of the agreement ends.

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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Cutting healthcare cost with bundled payments proves difficult

Source: Healthcare Finance News

Bundling payments to providers as a means to cut healthcare costs is proving harder to do than originally anticipated, according to a new study from non-profit research organization Rand Corp.

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Monday, November 7, 2011

Doctor gaps in Texas persist despite Perry's stats

Source: The Houston Chronicle
Now running for president, Perry says his tort reform plan proved the wisdom of his business-friendly policies by expanding health care across the state.
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Visits to emergency rooms rise as insurance lost

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

New hospital data show an increase in emergency room visits, a jump physicians attribute to both a swelling of demand for services and improvements that allow emergency departments to treat patients faster.

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Friday, October 7, 2011

How Doctors Could Rescue Health Care

Source: The New York Review of Books
The US is facing a major crisis in the cost of health care. Corrected for inflation, health expenditures in the public sector are nearly doubling each decade, and those in the private sector are increasing even more rapidly.
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Thursday, October 6, 2011

Providence, doctors join to study and improve care, cut costs

Source: Los Angeles Times

One of Southern California's largest hospital systems is teaming up with hundreds of doctors in a new alliance designed to better manage patient care, improve medical outcomes and reduce costs.

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