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Healthcare’s Contract With America: Routine Maintenance

by francine 08.04.2010

Until the 1970s, most medical care was primary care. Certain primary care doctors were known to be better at diagnosing things than others, and if you thought something was really wrong and your own doctor couldn’t figure it out, you went to a diagnostician. While these talented people may have charged a bit more, I [...]

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Health Care Reform: HHS Beacon Program

by francine 07.21.2010

President Obama’s HiTech Act, enacted right after he took office, should produce a major transformation in American health care when it gets going. Along with the health care reform legislation that was dragged kicking and screaming through Congress last spring, the Act could put the planets in alignment for real change in the way care [...]

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Big Health Insurers Already Trying to Game Reform

by francine 05.18.2010

One of the provisions in the health care reform law passed in March says insurance companies must use 80% of the premiums they collect to provide actual health care– meaning, to pay claims. What a concept. Unfortunately, as the regulations for the legislation are being written in Washington, the same lobbyists who tried to stop [...]

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Meet the New Cigna: Not Your Father’s Health Plan

by francine 04.24.2010

Health care reform isn’t over.  For patients, it has just begun. The health plans are beginning to figure out how they will survive and thrive under the new rules, and the way forward is, according to one managed care exec, to change how providers are paid. This will have consequences. Jeffrey Kang, MD, chief medical [...]

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