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A Health Care Surtax on the Rich: It Ain't So Easy by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The Disease Management Care Blog has been taking a tour of the Senate Health Reform Bill currently up for debate. Blowing tanks and diving all the way to the end, it found thi ... Read on »

The Mammography Controversy: How Government Runs An Insurance Benefit by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy What took the the US Preventive Service Task Force so long? Years ago, the young and inexperienced medical director Disease Management Care Blog became aware of a burgeoning ... Read on »

Time for Public Health Video Announcements for Cell Phones by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy What a great idea. It may already be out there, but a colleague of the Disease Management Care Blog pointed out that it's only a matter of time until video ( for example ) fu ... Read on »

Obesity: Are We Dealing With A Growing Addiction? Implications for Population Health Management... by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The Disease Management Care Blog welcomesRose Maljanian, who is President & CEO of Strategic Health Equations, LLC. She has 25 years of health care experience and has serv ... Read on »

Atlasians vs. Cooperites: Poverty and the Dartmouth Atlas by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Dr. Richard Cooper continues to generate controversy on the Kaiser Health News site and in the latest issue of Managed Care Magazine. Of course, regular readers of the Disease ... Read on »

The Core Issues in Health Reform by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Want a short summary cheat sheet of the core issues that are likely to be included in the final version of health care reform? Thank Paul Ginsberg's short article in the New E ... Read on »

Latest Health Wonk Review Is Up! by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Louise of the Colorado Health Insurance Insider has a marvelous summary of this week's Health Wonk Review, accompanied by telling Simpsons graphics. Highly readable, well edi ... Read on »

Another Reminder that Integrated Delivery Systems Are Not All That by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The Disease Management Care Bog is not in the habit of handicapping health care legislation, but it did check in with one of the information markets. The prospect of passage s ... Read on »

The Disease Management Care Blog Learns A New Term: 'Decremental Cost Effectiveness' by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Dennis Hopper, a Disease Management Care Blog fav thanks to his roles as a 60's addled motorcyclist in Easy Rider, a manipulative scheming huckster in Boiling Point and a soci ... Read on »

Not Impressed by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy True, while it does take a lot to impress the Disease Management Care Blog, the House's passage of health reform legislation is not landmark, revolutionary or courageous. Rath ... Read on »

Getting In Line For the Swine Flu Shot: A Physician's Story by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The Disease Management Care Blog has a primary care physician buddy that has offered up his insights from time to time, and he's done it again. When he and another physician w ... Read on »

New Cavalcade of Risk Is Up! by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy How assured can you be that you know everything you need to know about insurance? Find out at Debbie Dragon's WiseBread Blog - where folks learn about about living large on a ... Read on »

The Obama Administration's 'Top Ten' Answers to the Swine Flu Vaccine Shortage by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy With apologies to the David Letterman Show's Top Ten List........ 10. Those long lines are only being shown on Fox News. 9. Um, hellooo... joblessness, global warming, heal ... Read on »

Health Care's Actual Costs Versus Their Reasonable Costs: Insights From the New England Journal by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy You can't fight City Hall, the State Capital or Washington. Not when it's not 'reasonable.'Right after an embarrasingly self-promoting and one-sided political treatise by Sena ... Read on »

The Affordable Health Care For America Act and the Patient Centered Medical Home: the Disease... by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The Disease Management Care Blog finally got around to opening the online version ofHouse Resolution 3962, otherwise known as the House of Representative’sAffordable Hea ... Read on »

Oi Vey Public Plan! by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy With apologies to the AC/DC and this classic piece of pioneering heavy metal. The Disease Management Care Blog can't understand lead singer Brian Johnson most of the time any ... Read on »

Latest Health Wonk Review is Up! by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Yikes! Tinker Ready of Boston Health News is at your door trick or treat with a well written, extensive and illustrated version of the latest Health Wonk Review. This one is ... Read on »

More Implications on the Suspended Animation of the Medicare Medical Home Demonstration by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy While most media and bloggery continue to glom incessantly over the iterations and implications of the ‘public option,’ the Disease Management Care Blog finds the ... Read on »

More on the Medicare Pilots: The Medical Home Purchasing Cartel That Includes Medicare by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy What percent of the revenue or the patients is enough to get a hospital's or a physician's attention? In it's prior life in not-for-profit managed care, the Disease Management ... Read on »

Medicare Medical Home Demo Cancelled. Medicare Medical Home PILOTS Are On The Way by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy In a prior post, the Disease Management Care Blog broke the news that the Medicare Medical Home Demonstration had been placed on perma-hold by CMS. The announcement is now off ... Read on »

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