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If You Knew the Price…

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“If you knew what the price of items were at Wal-Mart before you went into the store to buy them, it would put Wal-Mart out of business.”
That has to be one of the single most insane statements ever written.Yet that’s exactly what many doctors and hospitals would have you believe [...]

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Planning & Implementation for Healthcare Reform is Like Herding Cats

Image from Mike Moreu
As long as we’re herding cats on healthcare reform, let’s ask a critical question…What is the timing for the changes being made for healthcare reform? Not “when will it get passed” but rather “when will the changes, whatever they end up being, go into effect”?
Logistically, it’s a nightmare.
Healthcare Reform Will NOT be [...]

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Differing Opinions of Our Healthcare Problem

I can only imagine how many differing opinions there are about how to solve our healthcare crisis.  But how many opinions are out there about what is wrong with our healthcare system?  Dare I start a list…
Anyhow, in doing some recreational reading and email sorting this morning, I came across a link to an article [...]

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Transparency, Accountability, and Competition… not necessarily in that order.

Once again I had the privilege this morning to hear Sen. Bill Frist speak, this time at a breakfast held at Lipscomb University.  Though last time the topic was highly focus, today the slate was clear and anything to do with health care was on the table.  Although our time was limited, Frist managed to [...]

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