Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
By Mike Daly
Retired CEO, Baystate Health System
When enacted, MassHealth was touted as the answer to correcting the problem of the uninsured in Massachusetts. Healthcare providers (i.e., hospitals) and insurers were compelled to take cuts in reimbursement upon implementation of the program several years ago.Â
Today we find that earlier assumptions about cost and utilization were wrong [...]
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
By Mike Stephens
Retired CEO, Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian
Anyone who has read my posts knows I believe there is a great deal this country can learn from the experience of other countries and our own states when it comes to  confronting the conundrum of expanding health insurance coverage. We may not agree with or wish to emulate [...]
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
By Don Ammon
Former CEO, Adventist Health System West
There is a compelling story today in one of the blogs on The Huffington Post. It explains how a 63-year-old female cancer patient will lose her health benefits if the Senate’s version of health reform – unveiled last night – were to pass. It describes how her COBRA [...]
Monday, November 16th, 2009
By Mike Stephens
Retired CEO, Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian
Several weeks ago I tuned into “The News Hour” on my local PBS channel. T.R. Reid, a longtime correspondent for The Washington Post, was discussing his recently published book, “The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care.” He recounted the global quest [...]
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
By Mike Stephens
Retired CEO Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian
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True cost savings from healthcare reform legislation will be highly unlikely if the government behaves like a private health insurance company.
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As announced late last week, the so-called public option will not impose what the plan will pay hospitals, doctors and other healthcare providers. Instead, the federal government [...]
