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Three Downsides to Commercial Health Insurer Consolidation

Writing in The Wall Street Journal , Scott Gottlieb argues that the Aetna-Humana and the Anthem-Cigna combinations are evidence of waning in...

Reform of Medicare's Sustainable Growth Rate: Be Careful What You Wish For

Be careful what you wish for. The law of unintended consequences. I'm from the government and I'm here to help . These were the n...

Health Policy Insights from the Medical Home Summit: Wellness, ACOs

The Opening Ceremony of The Medical Home Summit The Population Health Blog is back home after attending the intellectually rewarding Populat...

Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Update: A Health Reform Lesson

The 1967 Corvair. A non-PHB version Long ago, when the Population Health Blog was courting the future PHB spouse, our unspoken understanding...

CMS and Health Reform: More of the Same

Unmentioned..... Whoa, with breathless media coverage like this ( dramatically change ! ambitious ! ) you'd think that the Feds had jus...

Think Bundled Payment is Inevitable? Think Again

Getting bundles of these is easy? This just published Health Affairs article finds some flies in the bundled payment ointment. The summa...

A Path Toward Further Health Reform Is Lined With the IRS?

As attention has shifted to phantom IRS emails, misbehaving Iraqis and our newfound national awareness of soccer's off-side rule, it...

A "Penny Dreadful" Take on Health Reform

To the spouse's enduring disappointment, the Population Health Blog has been ensnared by the Showtime horror series Penny Dreadful . S...

Google Bus: A Future for Health Care?

The Population Health Blog's travels have included San Francisco. That's where it got to learn about the " Google Bus" imb...

Jack Bauer and Health Care Reform: A Multiple Choice Test

Business travel kept the Population Health Blog from being able to watch the live broadcast of Fox Network's " 24 ." Good thi...

Handling HHS Secretary Nomination Questions

The Population Health Blog notes that HHS nominee Burwell has been scheduled to appear before the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and ...

The Concentration of Naiveté

The Population Health Blog's car garage is not the size of a football field. So, when the PHB spouse parks our car inside, she tends to...

"Opt-Out" Health Insurance Enrollment

Say no to your health insurance? Kudos to the New England Journal for providing a tidy summary of the latest Republican healthcare reform p...

Using the Health Reform Template on Ukraine

Many decades ago, the teenage father of the Disease Management Care Blog personally witnessed the Russian invasion of a smaller bordering co...

Cost, Quality and Access in Health Care: Are All Three Out of Reach? Really?

Maybe the Disease Management Care Blog has been wrong. And maybe there are implications for health reform. The DMCB explains. When it lectu...

The State of the Union is Over. Advice on What's Next for Obamacare

When it comes to assessing or "monetizing" the possibility of a bad future event, the insurance-minded Disease Management Care Blo...

The Behavioral Economics Behind the Individual Mandate

Thanks to analyses like these , the Disease Management Care Blog is coming down with a tiresome case of individual mandatosis complicated b...

What Is the Plan B for Healthcare.gov's IT Problems

While Obamacare skeptics have glommed onto this government document for all the usual reasons of partisan advantage, the Disease Managemen...

One Proposed Measure of Obamacare Success: Drop-Outs from the Bronze and Silver Plans

Quick: if you had to chose a limited number of measures to gauge success of the Affordable Care Act, what would you choose? Would it be the...

Insights on Health Reform, Courtesy of Medical Home News

Getting more brainy To the chagrin of the DMCB spouse, the Disease Management Care Blog serves for free on several editorial boards. In its ...

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