Healthcare Reform

Preparing for Potential Reform: The Hospital View

Some proponents of national health care reform expect to pop the champagne corks any day now in celebration of getting a bill through Congress.

ImagingBiz Newsletter, January 18, 2010

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Too Big to Understand

I just finished reading the new book about last year’s financial near meltdown, Too Big to Fail (Viking, 2009), by Andrew Ross Sorkin.

ImagingBiz Newsletter, December 21, 2009

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Window on 2010: Impact of Imaging-Specific Health Care Reforms

Since the dawn of the DRA at the close of 2005, health care observers have predicted a follow-on DRA II. It appears that this prediction will come to pass shortly after the clock strikes midnight on December 31.

ImagingBiz Newsletter, December 21, 2009

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Health Care Efficiency: No Miracle Cure

Health care reform ideas are everywhere these days.

ImagingBiz Newsletter, October 14, 2009

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Too Much Health Care?

Of all the issues facing today’s imaging executives and radiologists, none sounds more cacophonous than the nearly universal cry that the United States spends too much on its health care.

ImagingBiz Newsletter, September 10, 2009

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Radiology Braces for Change Ahead

Some US employees still enjoy Cadillac-style health plans in which little is paid out of pocket and coverage includes almost every health need, but health care costs for its workers helped send Cadillac maker General Motors into bankruptcy.

Radiology Business Journal, September 09, 2009

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Adding Patient Value to Health Care

Harvard professor, best-selling business author, and management consultant specializing in competitive advantage Michael E. Porter, PhD, offers his free-market spin on health care reform¹ in the July 8, 2009, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Radiology Business Journal, September 09, 2009

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Against the Sword of Damocles

Radiology will fare better under reform than in its absence; it is advisable to join the battle

Radiology Business Journal, September 09, 2009

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The Demise of Reason (and Eating Crow)

When politics enters the health care debate, reason departs

Radiology Business Journal, September 09, 2009

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Health Care Reform and Medical Imaging: The 10,000-foot View

The Obama administration is pursuing an aggressive timetable to deliver on a campaign promise to make affordable health care available to all US residents.

ImagingBiz Newsletter, August 18, 2009

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Radiology and the Culture of Money

Let’s get the full disclosure part out of the way right up front.

Radiology Business Journal, July 01, 2009

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Health Care Tomorrow: A Revisionist Preview

Jeff Goldsmith predicts that, despite inevitable changes, the future of health care is more sound than many people believe.

ImagingBiz Newsletter, June 11, 2009

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Health Reform’s Shortest Era

He came. He saw. He vanished. Just as we health care journalist types were lining up the margins and checking references on our various predictions of what Tom Daschle would bring to the health reform debate and process, he bequeathed his White House office to his deputy in waiting.

ImagingBiz Newsletter, February 15, 2009

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Health Care Delivery, Undisrupted

How to afford health care is not the question we should be asking in these times of unsustainable health care cost increases.

Radiology Business Journal, December 01, 2008

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