We just posted on some of the measures within the House and Senate bills that may help lead us to improved care for people at the end of life. Here, Dr. Ira Byock, director of palliative medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., ...
The fifth committee has spoken. The Senate Finance Committee led by Montana Democrat Max Baucus just passed its health reform bill, 14-9. All Democrats, liberals and moderates, backed the bill, along with one Republican moderate, Olympia Snowe of Maine. ...
A recent statement from the Senate Finance committee outlined how small business health insurance exchanges, tax credits, and grants for workplace wellness as part of health reform would all make quality coverage more available and affordable for small ...
Veteran health advocate and researcher Stan Dorn is guest blogging for us today. Stan has worked on health policy for 25 years at the state and federal level. He began as a legal aid attorney helping low-income Californians obtain health care. Later as ...
...our health care system is placing an unsustainable burden on taxpayers. When health care costs grow at the rate they have, it puts greater pressure on programs like Medicare and Medicaid. If we do nothing to slow these skyrocketing costs, we will ...
Christopher M. Hughes, M.D. is a practicing physician, a trustee of the Pennsylvania Medical Society, and the Co-Director of Critical Care Services at St. Clair Memorial Hospital near Pittsburgh, PA. He is an avid blog reader (and writer) and a local ...
It is possible to delivery higher quality care at lower costs in the U.S. health care system. We have to look no further than Grand Junction, CO to prove it is possible. In 2006, average Medicare spending per enrollee in Grand Junction was $5,800, ...
We've said it before but we'll say it again: Although we focus a lot on the economic case for reform, we also believe that we as a society have a moral obligation to cover all Americans. Tomorrow (Tuesday, August 11) is a Faith-Based Day of action to ...
The health reform bills wending their way through Congress lay the groundwork for a long overdue shift in our system. Right now, as guest blogger Dr. Ira Byock writes, we don't have a "health" care system, we have a "disease care" system. After all, he ...
A little-noticed provision in health reform legislation -- though luckily noticed by our colleagues over at New America's Early Education program -- could send nurses to the homes of low-income mothers and mothers-to-be. It would scale up a flegling ...
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