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...company. Due to the current state of the industry, Mr Murdoch was naturally bound to deliver a depressing series facts. “There’s a lot of positive news too,” he encouraged, “but we’re going to focus on the negative, in order to improve...
Punishing the Mayo Clinic financially for efficiently and effectively providing Medicare services is just one failing of our health-care system. Attempts to lower Medicare costs, even those now under consideration, focus on lower fees--a maneuver well known to increase the number of services, many unneeded, and actually increase total costs. Truly effective care can be delivered only by integrated, cohesive, properly incentivized, Mayo-like multispecialty medical groups with strong leadership and a commitment to quality. Unfortunately, legislation pending in Congress ignores this need. Charles V. Allen, M.D., MODESTO, CALIF...
There have been many doctor series since then--Scrubs, House, Grey's Anatomy. But several new medical shows focus instead on the nurses and paramedics who provide so much actual hands-on care in the age of overscheduled M.D.s. In these shows, saving patients is a chaotic, bureaucracy-plagued process--when it happens...
Specialty hospitals that focus on providing care for children or cancer patients have long existed, but the target of the House legislation is something else entirely - for-profit health-care facilities owned by doctors that perform some of the most lucrative medical procedures in fields like orthopedics and cardiology. There are now some 220 such facilities operating mostly in the South and Midwest - up from 110 in 2001 - generating some $40 billion in annual revenue. According to Sandvig, more than 80 additional facilities are currently under development. (Read "Starting Health-Care Reform...
...Good for the South Side, It's Good for the World Nothing has been more central to the President's foreign policy approach than the theoretical lessons he learned as a community organizer in Chicago: listen to different views, understand the various motivations and then focus on the commonalities, not the differences. He repeats these refrains everywhere he goes. "The United States and Russia have more in common than they have differences," Obama said last week, shortly after meeting with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev in the Kremlin. At an April press conference in Trinidad, the President elaborated on his thinking...