Healthcare Reform: Too Big To Fail

Eric Dishman Rumors of the demise of healthcare reform have been greatly exaggerated. After Scott Brown’s upset victory for the Massachusetts Senate seat, the news media and blogosphere are abuzz. Ah, folks, we have ourselves an official media frenzy! Let the hyperbole begin: “The world has changed,” “Everything is different […]

A Foundation For The House Of Medicine

Paul S. Auerbach MD When you build a house, you begin with the foundation. The same holds true for the U.S. health care system. The President and Congress are scrambling to put up a reform structure that would have a better chance to succeed if the cinderblocks and joists were in place. No health care […]

Human Capital, Downsizing, and Treating People Right

In an article titled "It’s the Workforce, Stupid!" in the April 30 issue of The New Yorker, James Surowiecki strategically dips into the issue of corporate downsizing. In the article, he mentions the work of Wayne Cascio from the University of Colorado, Denver, that assessed the performance of 300+ firms who had executed significant layoffs in the 1980s, but […]

Bob Woodruff: The Exception to the Rule

Back in April 2006, I did a Health Politics program titled “The True Cost of the War in Iraq.” In the wake of Bob Woodruff’s ABC Special “To Iraq and Back;” plus the release of his and his wife Lee’s book, “In an Instant: A Family’s Journey of Love and Healing;” and especially following the […]

Time to Make Something Happen

As you’ll see in this week’s Health Politics program, the threat of a cholera epidemic in the United States is not huge — although we came close after Hurricane Katrina — but many developing nations struggle with it constantly. The bacterium that causes the disease lives and thrives in contaminated water, and once a victim […]

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