JAMA Feature: Consensus Growing On Next Steps In Sustainable Health Reform

The September 30, 2013 JAMA article, The Elusive Path to Health Care Sustainability by John C. Lewin, MD; G. Lawrence Atkins, PhD; Larry McNeely, MPA reviews various proposals with an eye toward consensus building. They say: “Most significantly, the proposals reveal broad, if not always unanimous, agreement about how to advance the principles they espouse. This agreement offers the basis for crafting the […]

King, Obama and Health Care Reform: Moving From Dream To Action.

Mike Magee “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhuman.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.(1) This week we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech. The promise of that dream – lives lived to their fullest, with purpose, goodness, […]

Young Invincibles Meet Obamacare: What You Need To Know.

Mike Magee This week, across America, college age kids are beginning to pack up and get ready to head back to college. They are part of a larger band of young, primarily healthy, and until now, largely uninsured citizens. That’s about to change with the institution of Obamacare. What do they need to know? First, […]

Resetting Our Biases: Entering A New Stage of “Health Enlightenment”

Mike Magee This week, the Washington Post published a lengthy piece focused on Medicare Part D, its history, and how it might be improved.(1) The suggestions – ranging from mining data to requiring diagnostic codes on prescriptions – zeroed in on “better prescribing”. What they missed completely was a simpler strategy with arguably greater benefit […]

How Digital Technology Can Personalize Healthcare

Ralph Snyderman, M.D. ORIGINAL SOURCE: HUFFPOST HEALTHY LIVING – February 18, 2013 “Digital technology has transformed virtually all aspects of how we live, and now it’s ready to revolutionize health care. In The Creative Destruction of Medicine, Dr. Eric Topal makes a convincing argument that the digital revolution will deconstruct how health care is delivered. For […]

Cliff Hanging: The Future of Norquist, Rubio, and Medical Science Leadership.

Mike Magee As we have seen over the past few days, there are pledges and there are pledges. It appears that Republican leaders’ allegiance to their country (in the face of the impending fiscal cliff) is winning out over their allegiance to Grover Norquist. But the problem is bigger than money or tax policy. And […]

Announcing: A Unique Resource – The Forerunner Collection

Health Commentary provides a range of informational open source resources for educational use with proper attribution. One of those resources is our Collections section prominently displayed on the toolbar above. In the collection, you will find series on aging, technology, and obesity. You can also access a curriculum on Advanvced Professionalism and 188 annotated public […]

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