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David Williams

David Williams is the co-founder of MedPharma Partners LLC, a strategy consultant in technology-enabled healthcare services, pharma, biotech, and medical devices. Williams blogs regularly at the Health Business Blog.

By David Williams | 09:52 am | April 03, 2012
Republican Senators Alexander, Johanns, Hoeven and Risch – all of whom have been state governors – unleash an attack on ObamaCare from the perspective of state budgets and argue that the law should be repealed (assuming it’s not declared unconstitutional of course).
By David Williams | 09:05 am | March 30, 2012
It has never made sense to me to that dental insurance is not included in comprehensive medical insurance.
By David Williams | 09:57 am | March 23, 2012
USA Today reports on a Republican National Committee advertisement that lambastes President Obama for not cutting health care costs.
By David Williams | 09:16 am | March 16, 2012
Mitt Romney is catching grief for a newly discovered interview where he defends the individual mandate in terms of personal responsibility, and cites the government or private payers picking up the tab for an uninsured person’s hospital care as “socialism.” Whether or not he still stands by that argument, there’s good logic to it.
By David Williams | 09:36 am | March 13, 2012
No surprise, Rick Santorum is attacking Mitt Romney’s record on health care. He’s going after Romney for instituting the prototype for “Obamacare” in Massachusetts.
By David Williams | 10:09 am | March 01, 2012
Mitt Romney has the right idea in his proposal to gradually raise the Medicare eligibility age. Too bad he’s afraid to start the process rolling for another 10 years.
By David Williams | 09:36 am | February 17, 2012
The term “parsimonious” has generated a lot of pushback. That’s not unexpected, because policymakers, the health care industry and consumers continue to studiously avoid serious discussions of cost.
By David Williams | 09:30 am | February 10, 2012
Rick Santorum won three GOP contests yesterday: Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri, so I decided to take a look at where he stands on healthcare.
By David Williams | 09:41 am | February 02, 2012
Remember how opponents of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) vowed to “repeal and replace” the measure? It was and is a great slogan but it’s no surprise that the sloganeers have been slow to follow through on the replace part -- even as they retain enthusiasm for pushing repeal.
By David Williams | 09:37 am | January 30, 2012
How many times have you read about the staggering shortage of nurses? It’s routine to see numbers in the hundreds of thousands tossed around – representing the seemingly insatiable demand for nurses from an aging population. I’ve always been suspicious of these estimates.