For comparison's sake. Wanted: an agency to put the evidence in evidence-based medicine.
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Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary↗
Biomedical subjects
Todd Sloane
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Help for docs is duck soup. Chances of a reprieve this year dim, as AMA tactics backfire.
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American Medical Association↗
Now comes the hard part. Democrats have a healthcare plan (sort of), but Bush still stands in the way.
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Forecasting↗
Your opinion here. Members of healthcare community have new ways to share ideas.
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Health Care Surveys↗
One reprieve, strings necessary. Physician Medicare pay freeze must be paired with comprehensive reform.
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Fee Schedules↗
The price club. Why a boatload of transparency projects don't have a chance of reaching shore.
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Consumer Behavior↗
Healthcare insecurity. With voters worried about access, it shouldn't be political business as usual.
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Health Services Accessibility↗
No simple answers. Without political will for comprehensive change, access problem will worsen.
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Cost Sharing↗
New Orleans needs intensive care. The area's healthcare system has been slighted in federal recovery effort.
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Delivery of Health Care↗
HCA's magic act. Going private hinges on unlikely bid to make a mountain of debt vanish.
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Capital Financing↗
Bad medicine. Big Pharma's cash injections lead to poor ethical outcomes.
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Appointments and Schedules↗
One delay we can live with. Patient-safety law's slow rollout just another sign of its inefficacy.
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Confidentiality↗
Flexibility and humility. When it comes to healthcare reform, all conclusions may be premature.
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Benchmarking↗
Accounting for safety. The IHI's 100,000 Lives outcome is laudable, but do the numbers really add up?
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Academies and Institutes↗
The devil's in the dollars. Opposition to new DRGs, coding system based on financial winners, losers.
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American Hospital Association↗
Insurers rush in. Someone else joins the IT circus, but nobody is running the show.
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Blue Cross Blue Shield Insurance Plans↗
Part D, part politics. Drug law caught in partisan crossfire is neither success nor failure.
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Aged↗
Not-so-benign neglect. Federal inaction leaves states to experiment on covering more uninsured.
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Federal Government↗