Want to know why so many voters cite healthcare costs as a top issue for the next president to address? Take a look at the report from the National Coalition on Healthcare, which provides an arresting snapshot of full costs of employer-provided health insurance and related healthcare. According to the non-partisan non-profit dedicated... Read more
With all the talk about Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's healthcare plans, presumptive GOP nominee John McCain's healthcare fix has largely slipped under the radar. But McCain is advocating one extremely important--even transformative-- change to American healthcare delivery. You know how the cost of your healthcare premiums is... Read more
A new report from Deliotte Health Solutions comes to the not-startling conclusion that patients. . .really want changes in the healthcare system. From the executive summary: . . .[M]any American consumers want more from their health care system than they're currently getting - including greater online connection to health care providers... Read more
GOP presumtivee John McCain is often attacked from the right for not being sufficiently conservative. Well, as Ronald Reagan once famously said, "There he goes again." An item in the Wall Street Journal's Health Blog reports on a conversation with McCain advisor Douglas Holtz-Eakin who described a shift in the McCain's... Read more
Still puzzling over that increasingly noisy healthcare debate between Hillary Clinton (universal coverage with mandate) Barack Obama (no universal coverage, no mandate)? I can recommend a news report on the Clinton/Obama mandate question that offers enough context to move the issue beyond the familiar ping-pong match. ... Read more