IN THIS ISSUE: ? CDHCC Conference ? UnitedHealth Buys Definity ? DEA Renegs on Pain Management ? End of PPOs by 2010 ? Tiered Hospital Networks Clumsy and Bureaucratic ? AMA to Back Specialty Hospitals ? Making the Case for Specialty Hospitals CDHCC Conference I was able to catch only part of the CDHCC conference in Washington this week. Judging from the exhibitors, … [Read more...] about Consumer Directed Health Care Conference
Meetings Galore
The California Medical Association devoted its annual Leadership Academy in La Quinta November 19-21 to exploring Access, Quality and Cost in the Era of Consumerism." Greg Scandlen and I were among the speakers addressing consumer-directed health care, and Greg did a splendid job of setting the stage with his historical overview of how the market in the health sector has become so distorted. Click … [Read more...] about Meetings Galore
Access, Quality and Cost in the Era of Consumerism
View presentations by Grace-Marie Turner and Greg Scandlen given in La Quinta to the California Medical Association's Leadership Academy on ?Access, Quality and Cost in the Era of Consumerism.? … [Read more...] about Access, Quality and Cost in the Era of Consumerism
Access, Quality and Cost in the Era of Consumerism
View presentations by Grace-Marie Turner and Greg Scandlen given in La Quinta to the California Medical Association's Leadership Academy on ?Access, Quality and Cost in the Era of Consumerism.? … [Read more...] about Access, Quality and Cost in the Era of Consumerism
The Importance of Tax Reform
This is a special combined edition of Health Policy Matters and Consumer Choice Matters. We want to draw attention - and discussion - to a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to bring essential change to health care financing. It would be a shame to let this opportunity slip through our fingers. President Bush has made a fundamental rewriting and simplification of the tax code a priority of his second … [Read more...] about The Importance of Tax Reform
New Interest
There was a quickening of interest this week in our work on consumer-directed care, with medical associations, investment groups, and others who may have been taking a wait-and-see approach to the election results suddenly wanting to learn more. The election was consequential in determining whether this new approach to engaging consumers as partners in managing health costs will indeed be … [Read more...] about New Interest
What the Election Will Bring in Health Care
IN THIS ISSUE: ? What the Election Will Bring in Health Care ? Second Term Focus on AHPs HSAs ? "The future is Republican" - Barone ? Bush is Better for Canada - Corcoran ? Individual Market "Daunting" in Missouri? ? HSAs to Grow "Exponentially" - Lieber ? HSAs Hot in Connecticut ? Getting a Good Deal in Florida ? Playing Down Expectations for DirigoChoice in Maine What the Election … [Read more...] about What the Election Will Bring in Health Care
What the Election Will Bring in Health Care
IN THIS ISSUE: ? What the Election Will Bring in Health Care ? Second Term Focus on AHPs HSAs ? "The future is Republican" - Barone ? Bush is Better for Canada - Corcoran ? Individual Market "Daunting" in Missouri? ? HSAs to Grow "Exponentially" - Lieber ? HSAs Hot in Connecticut ? Getting a Good Deal in Florida ? Playing Down Expectations for DirigoChoice in Maine What … [Read more...] about What the Election Will Bring in Health Care