Stephanie Bouchard
By the time this issue of Healthcare Finance News is published, the U.S. Supreme Court will have heard arguments on the Affordable Care Act. Since the announcement that the court would take the case, we’ve covered in print and online how the case could play out with the court, as have analysts across the country. Looking for new – slightly off-kilter – perspectives on the much-debated law and case, we’ve reached out to comedians for their take on it.
Just before the nationwide PBS release of his new documentary, “U.S. Health Care: the Good News,” author T.R. Reid talked to Associate Editor Stephanie Bouchard about the documentary and the healthcare issues facing the nation. Here is an excerpt from that February conversation. Go to www.healthcarefinancenews.com to read our two-part series.
There are many "first woman to" accomplishments on Christine Cassel's resume but she is best known as an expert on geriatric medicine and a proponent of professional certification.
Respected around the country as an instructor and researcher, Julie Freischlag, MD, is also one of the country's leading women surgeons.
Maine is gearing up for a statewide survey of doctors that will measure patients' experience of care and provide the state and its healthcare industry with important metrics.
A veteran of the speaker circuit, Maureen Bisognano is a vocal supporter of the Triple Aim. She has spent nearly two decades at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, where she is currently the president and CEO.
Ana Pujols McKee, MD, has long promoted the importance of patient safety and healthcare quality improvement. Today, she takes those causes to the national level in her role as executive vice president and chief medical officer of the Joint Commission.
Mary Naylor has a national reputation for her work as a geriatric scholar and for her examination of the contributions of nurses to the healthcare system.
Kativa Patel, MD, has her feet planted in both the clinical world of healthcare and the policy one. She is a primary care internist who shaped policy at the White House and continues to shape the conversation around healthcare on a national level in a variety of roles.
Before Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.) got to Washington, D.C., she made a name for herself as a state legislator who co-sponsored legislation that later became the footprint for the federal State Children’s Health Insurance Program.