Click here to view C-SPAN's coverage of the conference. It is an honor to be invited here today. Thank you Mr. Secretary, fellow panelists, and distinguished guests? ?Gail has shown us that we are entering a new world of health care. We finally can see that the light at the end of the health care tunnel isn?t the train of socialized medicine coming at us but, instead, the light of a new … [Read more...] about Making Healthcare More Affordable – White House Economic Summit
No Silver Bullet
Three noted economists writing in The Wall Street Journal this week claim to have found the silver bullet to solve the problems in the health sector. The answer, they write, lies in allowing ?all health care expenses - employee contributions to employer-provided insurance, individually purchased insurance and out-of-pocket spending? to be tax deductible to everyone. Click here to read the … [Read more...] about No Silver Bullet
Response to Cogan, Hubbard, and Kessler Article in The Wall Street Journal
We have been searching for a silver bullet to solve the problems in the health sector for decades, and John F. Cogan, et al, claim to have discovered it with their idea to provide full tax deductibility of all expenditures for health care and health insurance ("Brilliant Deduction," Dec. 8 commentary). But their silver bullet misses the mark. While reforming the tax treatment of … [Read more...] about Response to Cogan, Hubbard, and Kessler Article in The Wall Street Journal
Response to Cogan, Hubbard, and Kessler Article in The Wall Street Journal
We have been searching for a silver bullet to solve the problems in the health sector for decades, and John F. Cogan, et al, claim to have discovered it with their idea to provide full tax deductibility of all expenditures for health care and health insurance ("Brilliant Deduction," Dec. 8 commentary). But their silver bullet misses the mark. While reforming the tax treatment of … [Read more...] about Response to Cogan, Hubbard, and Kessler Article in The Wall Street Journal
Consumer Directed Health Care Conference
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, HSAs are … [Read more...] about Consumer Directed Health Care Conference
Consumer Directed Health Care Conference
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