Category: American Medicine Competition

Competition as economic force in American medicine

Re-Blog: NEJM’s Fundamentals of U.S. Health Policy, Part 7b: Dr. Chistensen’s Commentary on Creating a More Efficient Delivery System

I am happy to re-blog this post from fellow blogger Taylor Christensen MD, PhD. His basic point is well taken: The U.S. healthcare system could benefit from more competition. His corollary is that in at least a few cases, healthcare purchases should not be left to a competitive market. Two points that I would add … Continue reading Re-Blog: NEJM’s Fundamentals of U.S. Health Policy, Part 7b: Dr. Chistensen’s Commentary on Creating a More Efficient Delivery System →

Medicare for All Requires Healthcare Delivery Reform

I am happy to re-blog this post entitled, Medicare for All Requires Healthcare Delivery Reform, below. This post was offered by fellow blogger Ken Terry, who has been a respected health economics journalist for decades. I add comments about points of agreement, some other valid insights, alternative points of emphasis, and questions, posed somewhat rhetorically. … Continue reading Medicare for All Requires Healthcare Delivery Reform →

Yuval Levin’s Pragmatic Conservative Approach to Healthcare Reform

Respected conservative thinker and policy expert Yuval Levin adds a healthy dose of pragmatism to what has all too often been a bitterly ideological debate over healthcare reform. This post will look at Levin’s ideology and his pragmatism. First, let’s find the several broad areas in his analyses that line up with this Fixing U.S. … Continue reading Yuval Levin’s Pragmatic Conservative Approach to Healthcare Reform →

Nobel Economist: What It Will Take to Fix U.S. Healthcare

“America’s private health insurance system is far more costly with far poorer results than the public option programs in Europe.” So writes Nobel-prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz in his new book.  His solution to fix healthcare:  “people power.” His conclusion lines up with Fixing U.S. Healthcare blog. He agrees that the healthcare system needs more than the … Continue reading Nobel Economist: What It Will Take to Fix U.S. Healthcare →

Healthcare Reform: New Resistance, New Traction

Business school courses on managing organizational change often begin with how to deal with resistance to change. They teach business leaders first to distinguish between true resistance – recognition by front-line staff of real obstacles – and pseudo-resistance, the natural human tendency to fear anything unfamiliar. We are seeing the emergence of true resistance this … Continue reading Healthcare Reform: New Resistance, New Traction →