Is Health Care Spending Declining In America?

Mike Magee Election aside, the data is now coming in on our heath care economy for 2012. According to a recent report by the Health Care division at Pricewaterhouse Coopers, our health care spending will grow by 7.5 percent next year. This is a slower rate of medical growth than in the recent past. Credit […]

2 Steps Forward: Expose Grover and Listen To Nurses

Mike Magee This has undeniably been a year of challenges. Since when did cooperation and compromise become dirty words? We’re all tied up in knots coming to grips with the fact that the world has changed quicker then our ability to accomodate those changes. It’s catch-up time. But first we have to break free. Here’s […]

How Healthy Is Your State And Our Nation?

Mike Magee The wire release of America’s Health Rankings®, a state by state assessment compiled by the American Public Health Association and supported by the United HealthCare Foundation, summed it up this way: “Overall Healthiness Slightly Improved, but Obesity, Children in Poverty, and Diabetes Worrisome for States’ Health….reductions in smoking, preventable hospitalizations and infectious disease […]

The Grandparent Economy: Is Generosity Enough?

Mike Magee As the first of the 76 million US boomers reach the magic age 65 in January, 2011, there has been a great deal of discussion around costs – not the least of it in health care services. But the reality is that this population has the potential to assist Society if their energy […]

The Bob Butler Tribute: 2 Week Seminar on Aging – Day 7

The Bob Butler Tribute Seminar Day 1. Aging Demographics Day 2. The Challenge of Longevity Day 3. Measuring Aging Vitality and Independence Day 4. When Caregivers Need Care Day 5. Long Distance Caregivers Day 6. The Economics of Living Longer Day 7. Financing Home Health Care (Press Here) Day 8. Elder Abuse and Vulnerable Elders […]

This Week’s Presidential Healthcare Summit: Is It About Money or Satisfaction?

Mike Magee Today is the Healthcare Summit in Washington. There will be a great deal of discussion about efficiency, effectiveness and holding down the cost of health care. Money and time spent were also the topic of a JAMA article this week focused on declining physician work hours in concert with declining physician reimbursement over […]

The New Health Mecca

Should we focus our health care spending on “bricks and mortar�? or technology?…Or both? In this week’s show I look at the growing influx of development dollars into health care. Where is it all coming from? Certainly not the usual places – the medical community, government programs and the like… No, the new money is […]