Meet the #MAHPC team: http://pic.twitter.com/ub0YukuYHealth Care For AllFri, Nov 16 2012 06:48:10ReplyRetweetFavoriteMore about the chairman. Altman to head Mass health costs board.Brandeis professor and long-time health policy player, Stuart Altman, will chair the state's new health care costs board.Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Google Share on LinkedinShare by emailtinkerrr0 likes · 0 commentsCost commission begins work to … Continue reading #mahealthcarecosts: Massachusetts commission meets
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Essay contest — Tell a story about the cost of your health care and win $$$ #hcr #healthreform #aca
Ever feel like your doctor has no sense of the cost of the prescription, treatment or scan he or she is ordering? In an ideal word, doctors shouldn’t take cost into consideration when choosing care. But the health care system doesn’t operate in the real world and often that scan doesn’t represent the best care. … Continue reading Essay contest — Tell a story about the cost of your health care and win $$$ #hcr #healthreform #aca
What’s up with the single-payer health insurance plan Vermont?
Can one state take over its entire health insurance industry? We'll find out in Vermont. Here are some links w/ more details From The Rutland Herald: MONTPELIER — Health care advocates and Democratic politicians on Thursday cheered a Supreme Court decision that preserves the foundation on which Gov. Peter Shumlin plans to build the nation’s first single-payer health … Continue reading What’s up with the single-payer health insurance plan Vermont?
Books by doctors on health reform and beyond
As a freelancer, I’ve been known to grumble about doctors who write. After all, why should they hog the Pulitzers and the pages of The New Yorker when they have perfectly good day jobs? On the other hand, doctors in print often offer us an alternative to the mass-marketed Dr. Oz or the perky, laminated … Continue reading Books by doctors on health reform and beyond
Rounding up the year’s health news
Theirs and ours: You can read Commonhealth's list or listen to it on Radio Boston: Or listen to Carey Goldberg on WBUR MassDevice offers : The top medical device stories of the year, Part I From sweeping regulatory changes promised, but never delivered, by the FDA, to the industry and regulatory backlash against the impending 2.3% … Continue reading Rounding up the year’s health news
Health policy digest takes on reform loopholes and clueless reporters
The latest edition of the roaming digest of health policy blogs; Health Wonks - the SuperHero Edition!!! The deficit battle is on and politicians are in full voice - both in Washington and out on the hustings, where GOP candidates are loudly denouncing health reform as unAmerican and a job killer. Hipsters and greying hippies … Continue reading Health policy digest takes on reform loopholes and clueless reporters
Occupy Health Care: Boston protesters say Wall Street makes them sick
While health reform may not be at the top of their agenda, some of the Occupy Boston protesters down at Dewey Square had no problem linking the high cost of medical care to their complaints about Wall Street. Some support Obama’s reforms; others called for a single payer system. But, nearly everyone interviewed had universal health … Continue reading Occupy Health Care: Boston protesters say Wall Street makes them sick
Pfizer moves in @ Longwood Ave. and other health policy news
Nature Network Boston has some thoughts on Pfizer's drug development deal with Boston hospitals. Will NIH get anything out of all the NIH-funded research that the drug company plans to license? Maybe a price break for the consumers who paid for the research that will lead to new drugs? Maybe not. Also, check out this week's … Continue reading Pfizer moves in @ Longwood Ave. and other health policy news
USA Today on Harvard Vanguard shared appointments, and an aside
Damn -- scooped again. Every time I go to the doctor and see that sign for "shared medical appointments" I say to myself -- good story. Then I remember - I should not reports on doctors in the practice where I get care. Once when going for a prenatal test at the Univeristy of North Carolina hospital, I lay … Continue reading USA Today on Harvard Vanguard shared appointments, and an aside
Globe: Massachusetts patient records found by photog in dump
A good lesson for journalism students – Always be on the lookout for a story. A good lesson for hospitals or whoever disposes of their records – Get a shredder! The Boston Globe reports that one of its photographers was dumping his trash and noticed a huge pile of paper. Upset that the paper wasn’t … Continue reading Globe: Massachusetts patient records found by photog in dump
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