Who Should Sponsor Comparative Effectiveness Research?

We have tried to argue why comparative effectiveness research is a good idea. To cut and paste what I wrote in a previous post , Physicia...

Who Should Sponsor Comparative Effectiveness Research? 2015-05-20T20:06:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

The Health Care Bubble: Parallels with the Global Financial Meltdown

The global financial melt-down, or great recession, or whatever it will be called was a big surprise in September, 2008, to those of us not ...

The Health Care Bubble: Parallels with the Global Financial Meltdown 2015-05-17T19:44:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

The Health Care Reform Bill and Health Care Renewal

I have not written much about the seemingly endless health care reform debate in the US, because much of it has not been relevant to the iss...

The Health Care Reform Bill and Health Care Renewal 2015-05-12T19:30:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Pfizer Settles One Lawsuit, Loses Another, Pays its CEO $13.7 Million

It's deja vu all over again for Pfizer Inc, the world's largest pharmaceutical company. Settlement of Suit Alleging Neurontin Risk...

Pfizer Settles One Lawsuit, Loses Another, Pays its CEO $13.7 Million 2015-05-12T05:44:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Corporate Proxies Suggest CEOs Rewarded for Influencing Health Care Reform

We have frequently discussed the often outsized, if not outrageous compensation awarded to top leaders of health care organizations.  Such ...

Corporate Proxies Suggest CEOs Rewarded for Influencing Health Care Reform 2015-05-11T01:22:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Whose Voices do US Congresspeople Hear on Health Care Reform?

Earlier today, we posted about the final version of the settlement of lawsuits against the global health care insurance company/ managed ca...

Whose Voices do US Congresspeople Hear on Health Care Reform? 2009-08-12T12:23:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Final Settlement of UnitedHealth Backdating Case

Last year, we discussed a preliminary settlement of allegations against the leadership of one of the US (and the world's) biggest healt...

Final Settlement of UnitedHealth Backdating Case 2009-08-12T09:03:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

SGIM Urges "Chuck the RUC"

This week, Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) members received the 5 August, 2009, Update in Health Policy that urged we "chuc...

SGIM Urges "Chuck the RUC" 2009-08-07T08:30:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

How "Independent" a Source of Health Care Reform Data?

This week, a Washington Post article discussed who provides the data being cited in the ongoing US debate about health care reform. The pol...

How "Independent" a Source of Health Care Reform Data? 2009-07-24T08:51:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Pseudo-Evidence Based Medicine Threatens Health Care Reform Based on "What Works"

As I posted yesterday, the increasingly noisy debate about health care reform in the US has not dealt much with the issues we often discuss...

Pseudo-Evidence Based Medicine Threatens Health Care Reform Based on "What Works" 2009-07-23T07:27:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

What Health Care Reformers Don't Discuss

Health care reform is now the big health care story in the US. Discussion of various health care reform proposals regularly lead in print an...

What Health Care Reformers Don't Discuss 2009-07-22T08:11:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss? - Health Care Reform to be Lead by a Director of Boston Scientific, Cerner, and Medco

Today we learned that President Obama has announced his new picks for Secretary of Health and Human Services and for Director of the White H...

Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss? - Health Care Reform to be Lead by a Director of Boston Scientific, Cerner, and Medco 2009-03-03T11:14:00-08:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown