Mike Stephens

Now that healthcare reform legislation is in fact law, President Obama has been the object of unrelenting and persistent criticism due to many of the law’s provisions. While I disagree with many of these criticisms, I do share a feeling of disappointment in the lack of definitive and specific cost reduction actions.

With healthcare reform legislation now passed, this will be the beginning, not the conclusion, of the difficult and highly partisan legislative process of the past year.

The growing shortage of general internal medicine physicians is occurring at a time when an aging population will require more, not fewer, to provide primary care.

If you want to understand why voters in the recent Massachusetts Senate election were so angry, here’s your answer.

Anyone who has read my posts knows I believe there is a great deal this country can learn from the experience of other countries and our own states when it comes to confronting the conundrum of expanding health insurance coverage.

There are a number of healthcare systems that could serve as a good business model for other hospitals, including the Cleveland Clinic, Geisinger Health System, Kaiser, Virginia Mason and Intermountain Healthcare.

Our country has entered into the monumental healthcare reform debate without having attempted to answer a basic ethical and moral question: Is equal access to healthcare a basic human right?

True cost savings from healthcare reform legislation will be highly unlikely if the government behaves like a private health insurance company.

In an August 14 article the New York Times reported that three U.S Senators had announced plans to investigate hospital group purchasing organizations (GPOs).

President Obama's health reform plans are beginning to emerge in proposed legislation, and the predictable opposition has begun to coalesce in an effort to defeat many of the provisions which threaten these traditional interest groups.