May 25, 2009
Submit entries for material to consider to Blog Carnival
June 11, 2009 – Joe Paduda at Managed Care Matters
Deadline: 9 am Wednesday June 10, 2009
June 25, 2009 – Jason Shafrin at Healthcare Economist
Deadline: 9 am Wednesday June 24, 2009
July 9, 2009 – Ken Terry at BNET Healthcare
Deadline: 9 am Wednesday July 8, 2009
July 23, 2009 – Paul Testa at New Health Dialogue Blog
Deadline: 9 am Wednesday July 22, 2009
August 6, 2009 – Jaan Sidorov at Disease Management Care Blog
Deadline: 9 am Wednesday August 5, 2009
August 20, 2009 – David Williams at Health Business Blog
Deadline: 9 am Wednesday August 19, 2009
Sept. 3, 2009 – Jared Rhoads at The Lucidicus Project
Deadline: 9 am Wednesday September 2, 2009
Sept. 17, 2009 – Richard Elmore at Healthcare Technology News
Deadline: 9 am Wednesday Sept. 16, 2009
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May 20, 2009
by John Iglehart and Chris Fleming
May 19th, 2009. There has been a great deal of debate over how much significance to attach to last week’s promise by health care industry leaders to “do our part” in achieving the Obama administration’s goal of cutting health care cost grown by 1.5 percentage points annually. President Barack Obama called the occasion “a historic day, a watershed event.” He added: “Over the next 10 years — from 2010 to 2019 — they are pledging to cut the rate of growth of national health care spending by 1.5 percentage points each year — an amount that’s equal to over $2 trillion.” But the industry groups involved quickly pushed back against that interpretation, saying that they had merely agreed to work toward the eventual goal of reducing cost growth by 1.5 percent a year.
One person who said that he “probably put more stake in [the industry pledge] than most do” is David Cutler, the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard, who has been a major source of health policy advice for Obama during the campaign and afterward…More at: Health Affairs Blog.
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May 16, 2009
Jeff Goldsmith. The Public Plan: Not Worth The Risks
May 15th, 2009. One of the most controversial parts of the Obama health reform campaign platform was its pledge to create a new Medicare-like public health insurance offering that would “compete” with existing private insurance plans, and put pressure on them and on providers to hold down costs.
It would do this mainly by using Medicare-like pricing leverage to achieve significant discounts from hospitals, physicians, and others on their services, as well as through lower administrative overhead. The public plan has been the most polarizing element of the president’s plan, since it starkly divides advocates of a much broader public role in health financing from the dwindling and demoralized advocacy base for “market-based” solutions. More at Health Affairs Blog.
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