So it’s all over the news space and the shrieking blogosphere, with headlines like, “Obamacare Rates To Spike Up To 51%,” “Obamacare Hell…” and “Obamacare Inflationary Deluge…” And online friends are commenting about “Obamacare premiums set to rise next year as much...
Obamacare is built on the assumption that healthcare can be more productive, that we can squeeze more health per dollar out to the system that is built to give it to us. Practically everything I write is based on the same idea — big time. I believe we could do...
Republicans have raged against Obamacare for six years now. But do they really want to see it crash? We are rapidly approaching the day when the Supreme Court announces its decision in King v. Burwell. The case found a four-word phrase in the 900-page law that says...
A historic chart of health care spending exposes the culprit in rising costs: code-based fee-for-service medicine. To Be Notified When the Book Is Available for Purchase Go Here Cost is the big factor. Cost is why we can’t have nice things. The overwhelmingly vast...
Atul Gawande’s new New Yorker article, “Overkill: America’s Epidemic of Unnecessary Care,” brilliantly lays out why and how we are getting so much overtesting, overdiagnosis, and overtreatment — testing that is inappropriate, not helpful, and...
Dateline: Lahinch, County Clare, Ireland I’m sitting over the seawall and embankments of this seaside town in the west of Ireland, watching the Atlantic waves crash and dribble onto the shingle in what must be their most peaceful mood on a surprisingly warm April...
