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Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
Photo by Military Health via Flickr Donald M. Berwick, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services speaks at the Military Health System conference in January. Facing strong criticism of the proposed regulation for accountable care organizations (ACOs) the Obama administration announced new options Tuesday to lure hesitant doctors and hospitals. ACOs are a new delivery [...]
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Saturday, March 5th, 2011
Article written by Shuchita Madan March 5, 2011 On March 2, 2011, the Brookings Institution hosted an Oxford Style debate analyzing the constitutionality of the individual mandate, a major provision requiring individuals to purchase health insurance. The debate was moderated by William Galston, a Senior Fellow and Ezra K. Zikha chair in Governance Studies [...]
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
March 3, 2011 On February 25, 2011, Len M. Nichols was part of a panel at The New America Foundation along with Shannon Brownlee, Acting Director of the Health Policy Program and Christine Bechtel, Vice President of the National Partnership for Women and Families. The topic was on the Dartmouth Atlas paper Improving Patient Decision-Making [...]
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
Article written by Shuchita Madan March 1, 2011 The National Governors Association held their Winter Meeting this past weekend in D.C. On Sunday, March 1, 2011, Len M. Nichols participated on the Health and Human Services Committee panel where the focus of discussion was on the sustainability of Medicaid, I have summarized some points [...]
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
Article written by Shuchita Madan February 2, 2011 National Public Radio released a 3 part series titled, “Pressure on Primary Care”, which focuses on the changing landscape of delivering primary care.The problem: Americans aging and not enough physicians to treat them. It is predicted that by 2030, 70 million Americans will be older than 65, [...]
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Monday, May 24th, 2010
May 24, 2010 Written by Shuchita Madan Len Nichols, along with Jon Kingsdale (Executive Director of Massachusetts Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector) and Joel Ario (Insurance Commissioner for Pennsylvania Insurance Department) presented to the members of the American Hospital Association’s at the Annual Meeting on April 26, 2010. The three participants gave their presentation on [...]
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
April 21, 2010 Written by Shuchia Madan Companies such as Boeing and Caterpillar Inc. claim they will report a decrease in their earnings as a result of health reform because they no longer can receive a tax break for retirees’ drug benefits. When companies show that they have a charge of $ 1 billion on [...]