Just when you thought reports highlighting the US healthcare system could not be more damning, a new report emerges showing that “Americans die sooner and experience higher rates of disease and injury than people in other high-income countries”. Good morning…
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Dear healthcare: I want to help you; really, I do. You see, when tragedy strikes all around us we often look to you. Sometimes in that quick glance we see you as the problem. But yet, more often we look…
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“Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge” – Winston Churchill Why is healthcare so complex? Why is transformation in healthcare so hard to achieve? The great healthcare policy mind, Dr. Paul Starr, has written extensively about healthcare. If you are…
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A little over one year ago, this website was started in an attempt to become a “location where the community can come to discuss healthcare.” We wanted a “place where meaningful healthcare issues can be raised and worked on together.”…
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It has been made very clear that if we do not begin to address the rising cost of health insurance premiums, no one in the middle class will be able to afford any coverage. Consider the following from the Robert…
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What good is health insurance if there are no providers to access? Are we working towards enhancing healthcare access? In a recent article published in the Annals of Family Medicine, authors found that extending office hours can help lower overall…
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Healthcare increasingly has been built around the wrong things. We enhance electronic medical records when the records themselves are mainly built around maximizing revenue (not the patient). We build new healthcare facilities when these buildings simply are another place for…
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