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on 01-08-2008 13:08
all of the excesses and over use are there to see in the Dartmouth Atlas. Here is how to fix medicare: 1. take the median rate for elective procedures across the nation or regions. Give hospitals 2 years to come down to that rate of use and after that medicare will not pay for that procedure in that hospital 2. Calculate the mean mortality rate for the big procedures. Give hospitals 2 years to achieve the mean mortality rate. After 2 years medicare would not pay for that procedure. This is fair and it will save lives and money.
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on 22-08-2008 14:29
As U.S. payers and providers integrate lower-cost overseas options for non-emergency surgery and procedures in coming years, the shape -- and cost -- of healthcare infrastructure in America will change radically. It has already begun.
Jeff Schult, author, Beauty from Afar www.bridgehealthinternational.com/blog
Former Secretary of State George Shultz discusses his new book, "Putting Our House in Order: A Guide to Social Security and Health Care Reform." From the World Health Care Congress in Washington, DC.
