Models. No, not the skinny kind in a magazine. But conceptual frameworks. Like global warming “models” or even Obamacare.
Tag: Obamacare
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 case is now on appeal.
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.
Measurement of “care” will soon count for more than care itself.
It’s the same degree of freedom that exists within the giraffe enclosure at the Santa Barbara Zoo: the giraffes can run anywhere they want, except where they can’t.
Those who are surprised that employers are increasingly turning to part time workers and temps to escape Obamacare are clueless.
ERISA attorney Christine Roberts of EFORERISA.COM interviews Mark F. Weiss on the impact of Obamacare.
Corporations exist to make a profit. There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s a fact of life. One that I am all in favor of. Just keep your eyes open.
In the healthcare world being ushered in by Obamacare, measurement of “care” will count for more than the actual care itself.