Anthony Fauci MD on Global Health

We should understand Global Health not only in terms of its value in promoting individual well-being, but also as a stabilizing influenceI first met, heard and came to admire Tony Fauci several months ago at the Aspen Health Forum. Dr. Fauci heads the National Institute of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In […]

Four Big Trends

Far-reaching changes are coming, in both policy and the marketplace Several events and trends emerged over the last year that will reverberate throughout the health care marketplace in 2008 and going forward. While none of these dominated the trade press like some other issues – electronic and personal health records, RHIOs, the evolving labor shortage, […]

Nancy Pelosi’s Vision for Health Reform

Great goals, but do they really get at the roots of our problems? The featured highlight address at the opening session of the Families USA Health Action 2008 conference is by Nancy Pelosi, Congress’ first woman Speaker. Speaker Pelosi is clearly a brilliant and warm woman, a friend of Families USA, and she was introduced […]

Health Care Window of Opportunity?

Arkansas senator focuses on pressing issues Along with other familiar voices like Maggie Mahar and Ezra Klein, I’m in DC today writing from the Families USA Health Action 2008 conference. Families USA is a progessive (liberal) consumer advocacy organization dedicated to universal coverage, driven by mobilizing the nation’s passionate citizen advocates. I am here at their […]

Leveraging the Doctor as a Trusted Authority

How the medical community can influence society I was on the phone with my good friend Bill Bestermann MD recently. Dr. B, a preventive cardiologist who is passionate about the underlying mechanics of cardiovascular disease and the horrific toll the American diet and lack of exercise is taking on everyday people, lives in spectacularly beautiful, […]

On Practical Reforms

Can we achieve real change through policy-based reform? Now that health care reform is once again an active, visible issue in state governments and the presidential campaigns, the ideas are flying fast and furious. Predictably, some ideas are better than others. Over at Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review, Bob Laszewski asks an important, practical […]

Health Wonk Review Is Up!

New collection of health care writing from the Web Our good friend Bob Laszewski at Health Policy and Marketplace Review is host of this wonderful edition of Health Wonk Review, which consistently displays a collection of the best, most insightful health care writing around the Web. Bob has entertaining, if not entirely truthful, thumbnail sketches […]

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