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 […]

Medicine and Nursing and Early Childhood Educators

Placing Natural Home-Based Allies In the Same Room By Mike Magee, MD If there was ever a time for Nursing and Medicine and Early Childhood Development leaders to join hands on behalf of patients, it’s now. And there is no better place to convene the gathering then in the American Home. The concepts of Home […]

The Politics of Publicly-Funded Health Care

What really happens in the budgeting process Over at Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review, the always-insightful Bob Laszewski walks us through the mechanics of the just-passed federal budget and its health care financing implications for SCHIP, physicians, hospitals, Medicare Advantage plans. This clear, common sense analysis is a must-read for anyone interested in how […]

The Blind Men and the Elephant

Everyone’s talking about reform, but who is capturing the true scope of our problems? A most endearing Indian parable, written into poetic form by John Godfrey Saxe, describes how six blind men, each touching a different part of the elephant’s anatomy, vehemently argued about who was right. The moral as penned by Saxe concludes: “So […]

Google Closing in on Lifespan Health Planning

Mobile phones for planning and adherence By Mike Magee, MD You may have noticed a front-page headline recently in The New York Times: “Google is Pursuing Plans to Put a PC in Every Pocket.” According to the Times, “what Apple began with its iPhone, Google is hoping to accelerate with an ambitious plan to transform […]

Business As Usual

California’s Reform Proposal In the world of health reform wonks, all eyes are on California at the moment. His Republicanism notwithstanding, Governor Schwartzenegger has developed a generous $14 billion bill that would extend universal coverage to all Californians by 2010. Now that the plan is set, the special interests are lining up. Most of the […]

Health Care’s Cold Truth

An Iowa perspective I am writing this blog from Cedar Rapids, Iowa grateful that the temperature has warmed from brutally cold to pleasantly sub-freezing. Fortunately, the warm feelings left by the extraordinary victory of Sen. Barack Obama, the candidate for whom I was knocking on doors and making phone calls these last few days, has […]

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