President Obama recently stated that, “Congress could fix this whole thing with a one-sentence provision.” True: Repealing Obamacare in its … More
Category: Accountable Care Organizations
Let Medicare Patients Decide Which Accountable Care Organization to Join | Health Policy Blog | NCPA.org
The ACO model never fooled the CBO, which estimated that in 2010 they would only save $4.9 billion through 2019 … More
Too Many Squirrels, Not Enough Attention to Their Food Source | Robert Nelson, MD | LinkedIn
Locating the food source for this second group of squirrels is pretty easy. All they have to do is show … More
Personalized Medicine: Government Is The Problem, Not The Solution – Forbes
“Major cancer centers, including Dana-Farber in Boston and the Moffitt Center in Florida, are pooling data collected by oncologists, and … More
How Government Killed the Medical Profession | Cato Institute
Command and Control Coding was one of the earliest manifestations of the cancer consuming the medical profession, but the disease … More
Riskless ACOs may invite abuse – Modern Healthcare
The hope that accountable care would rapidly diffuse across the healthcare landscape to help reduce costs suffered another setback when … More
Measuring The Wrong Things: A Big Challenge for Government Organizations | LinkedIn
Although we agree that target-based league tables have led to some benefits in that at least it has put performance … More
How Should We Pay For Health Care: Government Or Markets?
Just about every good or service we buy involves bundling decisions. At MacDonald’s, for example, there is no extra charge … More
