Former American Medical Assocation president Donald Palmisano, M.D., knows a thing or two about leadership, and the updated and amplified version of his book could not be more appropriate for our times. On Leadership: Essential Principles for Business, Political and Personal Success serves as an indispensible guide with lessons from successful leaders whose decisions have a sweeping impact on … [Read more...] about Needed: Lessons in Leadership
What Medicare Services to Cut, Now: ‘Dual Eligibles,’ Doubly Expensive
There are nearly nine million people, representing one in five Medicare beneficiaries, who are eligible for services through both Medicare and Medicaid -- often called “dual eligibles.” They are the poorest and often the sickest beneficiaries, many of whom have multiple acute illnesses and long-term care needs. They consume about 25 percent of Medicare’s spending and nearly half of Medicaid’s -- … [Read more...] about What Medicare Services to Cut, Now: ‘Dual Eligibles,’ Doubly Expensive
Obamacare: No Friends in Free-Market, Single-Payer Camps
It’s the president of the free-market-minded Galen Institute versus a pediatrician/activist for a single-payer system in spirited debate on improving American health care.You might think in a debate over President Barack Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act would have one side arguing in support of it. But when Miller-McCune.com moderated a debate between an advocate of … [Read more...] about Obamacare: No Friends in Free-Market, Single-Payer Camps
There’s No Choice But Change
The outrageous distortions about the Ryan Medicare reform plan are coming from people who are accelerating the program’s path to insolvency.Medicare is being used as a piggy bank by Democrats, with $575 billion in payment cuts used to finance two massive new entitlement programs in Obamacare. And this April, the president proposed taking another $480 billion out of the program to lower the … [Read more...] about There’s No Choice But Change
There's No Choice But Change
The outrageous distortions about the Ryan Medicare reform plan are coming from people who are accelerating the program's path to insolvency. Medicare is being used as a piggy bank by Democrats, with $575 billion in payment cuts used to finance two massive new entitlement programs in ObamaCare. And this April, the president proposed taking another $480 billion out of the program to lower the … [Read more...] about There's No Choice But Change
White House waivers make a splash
The Department of Health and Human Services already has gone through one name change in its 58-year-old history, switching to HHS in 1980 from its original name, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.Now it's time to rename it again to something that more accurately fits its current mission - something, perhaps, like the Department of Catering to Special Interests.That's a logical … [Read more...] about White House waivers make a splash
States need tools to stem Medicaid’s red ink
States are desperate to find savings to get their budgets in balance. Medicaid spending has nearly doubled over the last decade, and for many it consumes the first or second biggest share of state expenditures, threatening education, public safety, and transportation programs.Decades of expansion of what is now the largest single health program in the country are finally catching up. Former … [Read more...] about States need tools to stem Medicaid’s red ink
Obamacare repeal means waivers for everybody
Can't we all just get a waiver from Obamacare? Unfortunately not, but the list of people applying is getting longer by the day.There are now 1,372 companies, labor unions and states that have applied for and been granted waivers from an early provision of the law that says health policies must provide at least $750,000 a year in insurance protection.In the latest batch of waivers, one in five went … [Read more...] about Obamacare repeal means waivers for everybody