Highlights of the important and interesting in the world of healthcare:
Cost drives dissatisfaction. The 2010 Health Confidence Survey from the Employee Benefit Research Institute shows an eroding sense of faith in the American health system, with people expecting challenges for accessing health services and paying for health care in the future, according to the HEALTHPopuli blog.
One reason for dissatisfaction. Excessive billing and treatment by fraudulent “medical mills” has jumped a whopping 42 percent in New York, resulting in increased insurance rates, according to the New York Alliance Against Insurance Fraud, FierceHealthcare reported.
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J&J consumer exec retiring. Colleen Goggins, worldwide chairwoman of the Johnson & Johnson Consumer Group for more than a decade, is retiring March 1 after nearly 30 years with the healthcare giant now under fire for a series of recalls, the Philadelphia Business Journal reported.
Cause of death? Old age. You know the cartoon where Bugs Bunny is driving an old car that suddenly falls apart, every bolt sprung, with the last hubcap rattling in a circle until it comes to rest, a Washington Post writer asked? Some people die like that, too. The trouble is there’s not a good name for it.
A hand for health workers. The Department of Health and Human Services is making $130.8 million in grants (economic stimulus) to help healthcare workers by investing in: primary care and oral health workforce training, equipment to enhance training, loan repayments for health professionals, health careers opportunity programs for disadvantaged students, and patient navigator outreach and chronic disease prevention in health disparity populations.