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ObamaCare: Shambolic or Shining?
The word of the week, courtesy of NY Times columnist, David Brooks, is "shambolic" which he uses to describe ObamaCare as it becomes implemented. As the overhaul of the US health system becomes a...
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Healthcare’s Early Hope?
We have a couple of promising trends emerging from the recent reports. Consumers saved $3.9 billion in premiums last year, according to an analysis released today from the CMS. Why? Because Obamacare...
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DOMA Bites the Dust
The U.S. Supreme Court’s voted 5-4 to strike down the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act. Swing voter Anthony Kennedy joined the liberal wing of the court –Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia...
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Primary Care Gets a Break
There’s no question that primary-care physicians have long been spurned by the fee-for-service model that doesn’t recognize or reimburse fully the time spent with patients. Well, internists had a...
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Dr. Ari Robicsek on Big Data & Healthcare
Big Data have become ubiquitous buzz words for the aggregation of information in data sets and the use of algorithms to define patterns. Overall, the growth of the sector is being driven by the trend...
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The Consolidation Wave in Healthcare
Remember the Telecommunications Act of 1996? This was one of the signature pieces of legislation by the Clinton administration. The 1996 Act was intended to transition our communications laws and...
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Bad News for Jobs Due to ObamaCare? Take the Long View.
So, it’s been a rough January — a second month of anemic job creation, a new CBO report saying that ObamaCare could cost 250,000 jobs and continuing blasts of arctic froideur that have shut down even...
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The Facts of Inequality
Once in a while, an economist comes along who puts out a disarmingly simple concept that seems to cut through the miasma of misinformation that is cable news. Once such person may be Thomas Piketty, a...
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D-Day For Obamacare Means Big Changes For Healthcare
MOBs are getting ready to take center stage as healthcare moves into more of a localized, outpatient setting. By John Driscoll, President, Alter+Care The first of this year was to be Obamacare’s D-Day....
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Remembering Alter+Care Advisory Board Member, Charles S. Lauer
Chuck Lauer, former publisher of Modern Healthcare and vice president of Crain Communications, has passed away at the age of 86. Chuck was also the head of Alter+Care’s advisory board of leading...
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