The Supreme Court is About to Get Another Chance to Gut Obamacare –New Case Would Maim Reform

Thomas Finn - May 17, 2013 5:37 AM | Categories: General News and Commentary, government policy

Healthcare Matters would like to thank Simon Lazarus for the following guest post. Simon is Senior Counsel to the Constitutional Accountability Center, a public interest law firm that is clearly very supportive of the current administration –and the Affordable Care Act. After the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act last June, Senator Jim DeMint and Representative Michele Bachmann wrote Republican governors, urging them to refuse to establish ACA-prescribed “exchanges”—statewide health insurance markets—for small businesses and individuals not covered by employer-sponsored health plans. At the time, it seemed unlikely that many governors would follow this cut-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-face advice, since the ACA directs [...]

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Efficiency vs. Effectiveness: Are We Reaching a Tipping Point?

On my way back from Pittsburgh yesterday, where it actually snowed on Mother’s Day, I had the pleasure of speaking with Paul Martyn, BravoSolution’s vp of supply chain strategy and a previous colleague of mine at CombineNet. Naturally, we quickly found ourselves discussing the current “state of the nation” in all matters concerning healthcare supply chain. Whether or not this is a sad commentary on the state of our relationship is a separate topic. Anyway, we actually landed in a few interesting and provocative places –and here’s an example: Raise your hand if your tired of an SCM strategy that [...]

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What A Hospital Charges Vs. What Medicare Pays — Yet Another Case for Pricing Transparency

Thomas Finn - May 14, 2013 7:13 AM

According to “A Study of Hospital Charge Setting Practices” by the Lewin Group, “the Medicare ...

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Fee For Service On Life Support in Michigan –New BCBS & Trinity Contract Sets Industry Example

Thomas Finn - May 13, 2013 6:48 AM

The new contract between Trinity Health (Trinity owns a dozen hospitals in Michigan that include Sai...

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US Pharma Spending Declines for First Time in 60 years

Thomas Finn - May 9, 2013 2:45 PM

Despite the fact that overall healthcare spending (direct and indirect costs, revenues), are at all ...

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Intuit’s Inaugural Consumer Spending Index Confirms a “Nation on the Rebound”

Thomas Finn - May 9, 2013 5:49 AM

U.S. consumers are spending again. After a prolonged lull following the 2008 recession’s historic ...

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How Does Healthcare IT Re-Invent Itself Amidst a Serious Skilled Labor Shortage?

Thomas Finn - May 8, 2013 6:19 AM

Would you be surprised to learn that the US Department of Labor expects jobs for medical records and...

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GHX Announces Industry’s First Implantable Devices SCM Solution –First Looks at This Year’s Supply Chain Summit

Thomas Finn - May 7, 2013 12:08 PM

GHX today announced the release of Case XpertSM and Order IntelligenceSM, two components of a soluti...

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Just in Time for Mother’s Day: New FDA Warnings for Moms-to-be

Thomas Finn - May 7, 2013 1:03 AM

The FDA is now warning doctors and putting out the message to women of child-bearing age that half-a...

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Procurement is a Team Sport –But Measuring Individual Performance is Still Key

Thomas Finn - May 6, 2013 10:34 AM

Throughout the industry, procurement, sourcing and supply chain management software and services spe...

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Why ACO’s Won’t Fail — A Contrarian View?

Thomas Finn - May 6, 2013 6:36 AM

Will ACOs succeed? Well, if you put a lot of weight behind what the industry’s “commentariat” ...

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ObamaCare’s List of Unintended Consequences Conspicuously Alarming –And Growing

Thomas Finn - May 3, 2013 9:21 AM

Just last week, the Kaiser Family Foundation released a study that indicates that ObamaCare has caus...

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Inbound Logistics Reveals Top 100 Logistics SCM Technology Providers

Thomas Finn - May 2, 2013 12:19 PM

An Inbound Logistics magazine survey of approximately 300 logistics and supply chain technology vend...

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MHA Acquired by Roper Industries

Thomas Finn - May 2, 2013 9:04 AM

Managed Health Care Associates, Inc. (“MHA”), a diversified health care services and tec...

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Novation Dishing Out The Awards at its Annual Supplier Summit

Thomas Finn - May 1, 2013 2:33 PM

Novation recognized 22 suppliers yesterday at its annual Supplier Summit. These awards were given in...

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California’s Community Medical Centers Joins Premier –PremierConnect Draws Them In

Thomas Finn - May 1, 2013 11:16 AM

California’s Community Medical Centers joins the Premier Alliance. As central California’s large...

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