I attended a conference in Chicago last week that discussed a lot of high falutin’ health care issues — bio-technology, IT, the future of Medicare, and the like, but it was the presentation by Dr. Alan Guttmacher from the Human Genome Research Institute at the NIH who offered the most interesting wrinkle.  And get this, it wasn’t […]

Regular readers of this space know that I’m both a member of the Massachusetts Health Care Quality and Cost Council (HCQCC), as well as one of its loudest supporters. At a meeting I was, alas, unable to attend last week — the Council outlined its annual goals for Fiscal Year 2008 (remember, the state fiscal year is July to June, not […]

I heard this idea promoted at a luncheon I was at last week — that the best way to fix health care in the U.S. would be to move to a “Medicare For All” system.  Needless to say, I find this odd — since I think many of the things people hate most about our existing […]