As Congress and the President rethink their approach to health care reform, we have an opportunity to rethink our approach to health care cost containment. Both the House and Senate versions of health reform legislation rely heavily on Medicare payment reductions, pilot programs, studies, and new government offices to reduce future medical trends. Medicare payment […]

The impact of the Massachusetts Senatorial race is being processed in Washington, and ideas about what it means for health reform are surfacing daily, if not hourly. The common denominator is reassessment, no doubt being driven by concerns about the November elections. What was a tenuous balance of votes in both the House and Senate […]

Last week the Office of the Actuary of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a couple of reports, one on national health spending in 2008 and the other, which was covered by the Wall Street Journal, on the impact of pending federal health reform legislation on health care costs. Both are interesting in […]