The furor of the debate over whether or not to include a public plan or to enforce an individual mandate has obscured another important element of federal health reform: the role and design of the health insurance exchanges. A recent posting on The Health Care Blog entitled “Last Chance to Fix the Exchanges” makes this point […]

Last week’s New York Times editorial entitled “Reforms and Your Premiums” perpetuates the myth that the Senate Finance Committee health reform bill in its current form is affordable and misrepresents the findings of a PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) study commissioned by America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) to assess the impact of the bill. Characterizing the PWC study […]

The Health Care Blog ran a posting entitled “To Change Health Care, Change Diabetes”. The title overreaches, but the argument – that early diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diabetes would reduce health care costs – is certainly true. The article calls for more measurement of quality, coordination of care, and aggressive treatment.

It is well known […]