Book Review.This might seem like a curious title for a blog post but it reflects a very serious national need. Medicare is the central met...
Showing posts with label Medicare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Medicare. Show all posts
Friday, March 27, 2015
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Did you get more than a few minutes with your doctor at your last visit? Probably not. Why not? Not enough time. The primary care physicia...
Monday, March 31, 2014
The Crisis in Primary Care –Part 2 Primary care physicians (PCPs) have too little time per patient which means too many referrals to special...
Monday, March 24, 2014
The Crisis in Primary Care – Part 1 of a Series The primary care physician (PCP) should be the backbone of the American healthcare system. B...
Sunday, November 3, 2013
The price of drugs comes from a perverse system and what you as a patient pay is equally perverse. Let’s consider a few examples. Older pe...
Monday, October 14, 2013
“An ounce of prevention” we all know is good medicine. An example is colonoscopy. It was time for mine so after some lengthy procrastination...
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
There are just a few key reasons why Medicare has become inordinately expensive. There is no end in sight for cost escalation. But there a...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Primary care physicians (PCPs) have been marginalized by Medicare for decades with low reimbursement rates for routine office visits which h...
Thursday, August 15, 2013
The Republicans’ proposals for Medicare are quite different than the Democrats’ in that they begin with fundamental structural changes tha...
Monday, August 12, 2013
The two party’s approaches are quite different. The Democrats’ plans are contained generally in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and for th...