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How Health Reform can work: Part 2
Part 2: The Emergence of Consumer Value Despite its deep flaws, the new health reform law, ACA, has three aspects that make me optimistic about medical entrepreneurs being able to surmount the law’s barriers to create a consumer-dominated, market-based medical care...
How Health Reform can work: Part 1
Part 1: Even a Blind Pig Finds an Occasional Truffle I’ve made no secret of my disdain for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), the new health reform law. It is a bad bill that focuses the wrong “solutions” on the wrong problems and promises to visit...
What will Health Reform do for (or to) America’s Hospitals? – Part 3
How They Can Survive and Thrive For America’s community hospitals, using the traditional cost-shifting revenue model is the maddening equivalent of simultaneously playing rugby, Australian-rules football, major-league baseball, and cricket—dictated by the rules of...