Today’s post by Dr. Kathleen Hoffman, whose blog is found here, focuses on issues of patient safety: The Institute of Medicine (IOM) recently published a substantial report on the healthcare system in the US. According to the report, in the US…
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Yesterday, The Lancet published an article highlighting how Mexico is achieving its goal of universal healthcare coverage in 2012. The article’s abstract notes: “Evidence indicates that Seguro Popular is improving access to health services and reducing the prevalence of catastrophic…
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From Mark Dimor: My key reform would be to emphasize palliative and hospice care, because it has a huge impact on the care of terminally ill patients, and those who are the caregivers and survivors. It is important that more…
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From Carmen Gonzalez: One of the core reasons for health care reform was to stop the runaway train of rising health expenditures. Those costs won’t level off until everyone is covered and the middle-man (a.k.a. insurance companies) are taken out…
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It has been nearly a year since the Occupy Healthcare community came together. During this time, we have sought to demonstrate the flaws in our current healthcare system: lack of integration, lack of patient focus, lack of coordination, inefficiency, etc. …
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A recent post on our blog highlighted the challenges patients all too often face when they are communicating (or attempting to communicate) with physicians. As a doctor, and as a teacher who has as a goal training empathic, patient-focused, humanistic…
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Just about three weeks ago, the Supreme Court ruled that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was constitutional in its requirement that all Americans have health insurance. However, the court also decided that the ACA’s expansion of Medicaid…
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Yesterday, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). After nearly 2 1/2 years of partisan misinformation, the Court has established the law’s legitimacy. This is an enormous step forward. The PPACA incorporates…
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Does the cost depend on the value? Today, Medscape released the results of their 2011 survey of physician compensation: I share this post here to point out the discrepancy in physicians’ average salaries based on their specialties. In particular, I…
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Without significant changes, healthcare spending in the United States (already one of the highest rates in the world per capita) will continue to increase at an unsustainable rate (PDF). Whatever one’s opinion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act…
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