It was an inside story in the Wall Street Journal, which meant it wasn’t THAT important. But as someone who pays attention to the cost of health care generally — and the cost of Medicare and Medicaid in particular — it caught my attention. Peter Orszag, the director of the Congressional Budget Office, is making […]

I’ve written before about the negative impact Medicare payment policy — which favors specialization and procedure-driven health care — has had over time on primary care. And since Medicare is the driving force behind all provider payment policy in this country, what Medicare does really matters. Someone sent me a blog the other day on this topic that makes […]

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 […]