David Williams

“Rationing” is a handy label for opponents of government involvement in healthcare to throw around. It connotes hardship during wartime and not being able to use water during a drought. Things we hate.

Why does anyone really care about what Mitt Romney says about Medicare?

Employer-sponsored health insurance exchanges were featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, as Sears and Olive Garden’s parent start providing employees with benefits dollars to be used in a private health insurance marketplace.

Everyone in the health care world knows about the shortage of primary care physicians. A great many everyday people learn about it firsthand when they try to find a doctor make an appointment.

Some people are motivated by incentives, but almost everyone hates to lose. So the penalty phase provides a motivation to get moving, even to those providers who missed out on the bonuses.

The US is perhaps the only rich country without universal health insurance coverage, and that will still be true even if the Affordable Care Act is fully implemented.

I’d like to think that the selection of Paul Ryan as Mitt Romney’s vice presidential candidate could lead to a substantive, adult debate on Medicare for the general election.

A Los Angeles Times article laments the trend to perform functions such as data processing, pre-certification, and utilization review overseas in places like the Philippines and India.

I am heartened by the release of the Report of the State Budget Crisis Task Force, which highlights the fact that state finances are a mess and likely to get worse. The report identifies six big threats.

One of the few points of consensus in the “replace” part of “repeal and replace” is that malpractice reform should play a central role.