The Fact of My Ignorance

Well needless to say there’s a lot going on in the healthcare arena lately.  In case you missed it, the House of Representatives released their healthcare bill last week.  I’m planning on writing up my analysis of it but unfortunately I’ve got midterms early next week so you’ll all have to wait a week or so for that.  But in the meantime I thought I’d provide some basic information about what the bill contains since I’ve had several people recently express frustration to me that they don’t know where to get an objective description of the contents of the bill.  So I’ve provided some helpful links after the jump. Continue reading

While politicians hammer out the details of healthcare reform legislation and debate some of the more “controversial issues” (which I put in quotes because they shouldn’t be as controversial as they are) surrounding healthcare reform, the administration is busy doing things that everyone should be able to happy about.  Of course good news doesn’t draw as many readers as doom and gloom so its easy to miss some of these developments if you’re just clicking through a news website or taking in a bit of CNN, so I’ve highlighted a couple of the recent positive developments after the jump. Continue reading

Well its been a while hasn’t it?  Sorry about that.  I’ll be posting with more regularity in the future.  As many of you know I recently got back from an AMA conference in Chicago and it was a surprisingly eye-opening experience in a lot of different ways.  There’s no way I can cover it all in one post so I’m just going to talk about one of the issues that was discussed at this meeting.  There is a now-famous article that was recently published in the New Yorker entitled “The Cost Conundrum” which analyzes some of the drivers of high healthcare costs.

Everybody was talking about this article.  The President of the AMA called the article a “watershed moment” for healthcare reform.  Supposedly President Obama had everyone on his healthcare team read the article.  So if you have even a passing interest in healthcare policy and reform, you should probably read it too.  So for your enjoyment I’ve posted a link to it after the jump.

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