An article published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine casts doubt that malpractice reform would reduce the use of supposed "defensive medicine."
Accountable care has taken a stronghold in today's healthcare environment, and the trend is progressing, according to respondents from Premier's semiannual Outlook survey.
Business has a vital concern in the financing of healthcare. So why is there not an outcry to switch to a proven financing system that would serve their employees well?
One of the worst failures of the Affordable Care Act is that, even with subsidies, the premiums and out-of-pocket expenses are unaffordable for far too many people. Unfortunately, a new proposal for catastrophic plans with very high deductibles would make accessing healthcare truly unaffordable for even more people.
Thomas Piketty’s new book “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” is not about healthcare, but it provides us with an excellent background for understanding why we need to reform our current healthcare financing system.