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Your ‘Medical Home’: Will Your Doctors Tussle For The Title?
Don’t miss today’s report from WBUR’s Martha Bebinger on a Worcester community mental health center that aims to be considered its patients’ “medical home.” What’s a medical home? Martha explains:...
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‘No Stick Needed:’ Counter-Proposal For Mass. Health Reform
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick From the moment last February when Gov. Deval Patrick declared his determined push for a new wave of Massachusetts health reform aimed at controlling costs, it was...
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Coakley Calls For Patient Cost Estimates, ‘Clout’ Limit, Possible 2015 Caps
Attorney General Martha Coakley Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley broaches three new tactics — or “pillars,” as she puts it — for containing the state’s health costs in her speech today to...
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‘Healthy San Francisco’: A Different — Better? — Model For Health Reform
Let me tear off my provincial Massachusetts blinders for a moment to say: We’re far from the only national laboratory for health reform. And something deeply interesting is going on in that fair city...
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Guest Post: Why American Medicine Needs A Moneyball Moment
By John Miner and Brad Stulberg Students in the Masters in Health Services Administration program at the University of Michigan John Miner Brad Stulberg With baseball season over and “Moneyball”...
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Making Federal Health Reform Not Just Simple But Kinda Cute
I’ve never been tempted to call anything connected to health care reform “cute” before. But the above map is, isn’t it? And when it comes to the Byzantine byways of the American health care system,...
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Two Leading Pediatricians: For Children’s Sake, Tax Soda
At the State House this morning, pediatricians and other health-promoters concerned about obesity officially launched a concerted campaign against sugary drinks and candy. Central to their efforts: a...
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New Hospital Chief: Mass. Health Care Is 5 Years Ahead — Anxiety Is Natural
Dr. Kevin Tabb, new chief of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center In his first two months as chief of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Dr. Kevin Tabb has gotten to know the hospital but he has...
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Your Predictions For Health Care In 2012?
O come, all ye faithful readers of CommonHealth, and share with us your predictions of what will happen in health care in 2012. This is a fascinating moment in medicine; many in the trenches say...
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From Consumer Anger To The Supreme Court, 2012 In Health Care
From Jonathan Gruber's new book, "Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It's Necessary, How It Works What will 2012 bring in health care? Some of these predictions are decidedly tongue-in-cheek. Others...
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