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Is the Affordable Care Act finished? Forbes’ Rick Ungar says the federal government’s decision to give states most of the power in deciding what benefits insurance companies must provide to small business is a cynical political calculation. Obama can now says he respects states rights heading into the next election. But that cold political calculation will undermine the most important benefits (in Ungar’s mind) of “Obamacare.”
“I can already hear the sound of state lobbyists revving up their engines and establishing new bank accounts all over America as they prepare to write the state laws that will best serve the health insurance companies to the disadvantage of the consumers in need of good coverage,” Ungar states.
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A medical school primer – for innovators. A self-aware and highly organized medical student is most likely to be an innovator.
And prepare for a new kind of residency: “The program is called a longitudinal integrated clerkship – a training model that veers away from traditional clinical block rotations. Instead of studying different disciplines in chunks, students work with physicians in core specialties continuously throughout the year while simultaneously following a panel of patients representing a wide spectrum of medical conditions.”
What patients want, don’t want that much and don’t want at all. In a not-so-shocking-development, patients want better-faster-cheaper: immediate care, the best medications and treatments, and a continuity of care (speaks in my mind to a need for more telemedicine innovation). They care less about conflicts of interest and efficiency. They don’t care at all about things like “real costs.”
A healthcare economy makes you sad. Some of the most depressing places in the United States are elite medical cities including Philaedelphia (most depressing) and Minneapolis (fourth most depressing).
Inside an Automated Healthcare Practice: Redesigning Care Around People, Not Paperwork
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
FDA retreat on antibiotic resistance? “The FDA bent to the will of the drug and meat industries.”
One medical clinic’s lesson on humanity. The holidays are about many things. Remembering our humanity is one of them. Alberto Cairo who handles orthopedic rehabilitation for the Red Cross, discusses how their clinic in Afghanistan found a better way to deliver humanity.