This will be my last posting for Let’s Talk Health Care, and I want to take the opportunity to thank all readers, responders, and interested parties for your thoughts and attention. I hope the dialogue was useful and contributed to a fuller understanding of the many health care issues we face.

It is hard to imagine […]

A posting by Kim Bellard on The Health Care Blog last week made an interesting case for narrowing federal health reform to a few meaningful reforms rather than trying to solve all problems at once. In his view the key problem is “primarily in the individual market, since (the) use of medical underwriting/preexisting conditions exclusions […]

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 […]