Recently the Bipartisan Policy Center released a report entitled “What Is Driving U.S. Health Care Spending? America’s Unsustainable Health Care Cost Growth.” The paper highlights the items that the group…
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This week, we are blogging from Chicago where the 2012 Congress of Neurological Surgeons annual meeting is being held. The meeting is where neurosurgeons convene to explore the most significant…
So you may be asking yourself what’s this budget sequester mumbo-jumbo all about? Turns out, it’s not mumbo-jumbo at all; rather a pretty serious issue. As you may recall (or…
Now that the days awaiting the Supreme Court’s initial decision on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are long over, we wanted to take time to remind everyone about the many…
Recently Rep. Michael Burgess, MD (R-TX), took on CNN’s Soledad O’Brien on Medicare reform and the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) in particular. Before we show you the video here’s…
Today we wanted to share an essay from Atul Gawande, MD. In this piece, published last month in the New Yorker, he posits that medicine could learn from big chains, like…
We bet some of you may already have seen these articles on ways to contain healthcare costs, but we wanted to pass them on in the event you missed them….