This is the first of several posts on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commissions 2013 Annual Report to Congress, which covers a variety of provider types and other issues. In this…
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Several articles and commentaries in recent Journal of the American Medical Association issues focus on the role of genomics and personalized medicine in health care.
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A Robert Wood Johnson report describes the ongoing decline in employment-based health insurance, driven by ongoing large premium increases and exacerbated by general declines in the work population resulting from…
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A report from the PriceWaterhouseCoopers Health Research Institute discusses the importance of patient experience and satisfaction ratings and the difficulty consumers have in accessing information from various rating sources.
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An article in the current Health Affairs discusses the worldwide issue of how to limit health spending while at the same time improving people's health and the health care they…
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While we often focus our attention on the health care problems of the developed world, lower income countries have bigger issues, many of which are being addressed with the same…
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The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.
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