Measurement of “care” will soon count for more than care itself.
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To paraphrase J.P. Morgan, we always have two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
As I write this, Donald Trump has won the presidency and the Republicans have preserved their control of both the House and Senate. What’s this mean for the business of medicine? Well, it almost certainly means the end of Obamacare. But what exactly that means, no one knows for sure. Will the whole statutory scheme […]
Hillary Clinton has promised to support Obamacare with a goal of moving to “universal coverage” or single payor.
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren seem to think that businesses don’t exist to make a profit. Grilling Aetna, as they plan to do this week, over the “real” reason it left the Obamacare exchanges won’t change the program’s failed economics.
Obamacare provides health insurance coverage, but coverage is not access to care. For care, you need physicians and you need to be able to see a physician, the right one, when you require care.
Earlier this year, a federal trial court in Idaho struck down, and ordered unwound, a hospital’s acquisition of a medical group on grounds that it violated antitrust law.
The physician subsidiary entity is a physician alignment model sold as a kinder, gentler, freer alternative to direct hospital employment.
Obamacare provides health insurance coverage, but coverage is not access to care. For care, you need physicians and you need to be able to see a physician, the right one, when you require care.
To paraphrase J.P. Morgan, we always have two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. The claimed good reason to restrict further physician owned Medicare certified hospitals, and the expansion of existing certified physician owned hospitals, is to prevent over utilization due to profit making motives. But traditional hospitals are induced […]