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Why the markets are in a panic over Obama
By Donald E. Johnson The stock market has plunged since late September when it became pretty clear that President-elect Barack Obama would become our next president in January. Why? Uncertainty. While the mounting financial crisis certainly has had a major...
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This isn't the early 1990s
By Sarah Arnquist Several stories in today's papers make it clear that the atmosphere for health reform today truly is different than when the Clinton Administration took over in the 1990s. Here's the bullet points in support of that thesis:...
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More on Health 2.0 & Ix Synergies
By Josh Seidman Our IxAction Alliance focused our monthly IxInsights Webinar this week on the synergies between Health 2.0 and information therapy (Ix). This marks the first of a series of activities for the IxCenter on the H20-Ix intersection as...
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If you haven't had a chance to sign up for THCB UPDATE yet, you really should. You'll get a helpful reminder email from us a few times a week when important posts go up on the site. In the two...
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Daschle Tapped for HHS Secretary
By Brian Klepper The Caucus, the New York Times Political Blog, reports that senior Obama aides have said that Mr. Obama offered the nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services to Tom Daschle of South Dakota, the former Democratic...
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Big pharma has big problems
By David Williams Big pharma has big problems. The root cause is a lack of research and development productivity, which means a dearth of new products to make up for looming patent expirations. Something near half of big pharma’s revenues...
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An Open letter to Congresstional Budget Office: Keep it straight
By Robert Laszewski I guess this is an open letter to CBO Director Peter Orszag and his colleagues at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). I have great respect for the CBO and that has been the case under different majorities--Democratic...
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Two Mea Culpas
By Brian Klepper Here's an attempt to recover from two mistakes yesterday. My post on our dismal prospects for real health care reform prompted a couple readers - thanks to Hal Andrews and Fred Goldstein - to take me to...
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The Changes We Need
By Brian Klepper These are, as the Chinese curse reputedly called them, interesting times. If the burst of new Democratic health care reform proposals is any indication, a fresh breeze of the Obama campaign's "Yes We Can" optimism is blowing...
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Moody's predicts winners & losers in Obama health reform
By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn Moody's, the credit rating agency, offers their post-election impressions in their special comment, "U.S. Healthcare Industry: Credit Implications of the U.S. Election." Barack Obama's campaign roughed out principles for health reform across three issue areas: Access and...
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Are Hospitalists Recession Proof?
By BOB WACHTER Hospitals aren’t the first businesses hurt when the economy sours, but they get hurt nonetheless, as an article in last week’s NY Times points out. But hospitalists have never lived through a massive downturn. What happens to...
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Baucus' proposal proves no consensus on key reform issues
By Bob Laszewski Max Baucus will be a key player in the health care debate the next two years. As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee he has jurisdiction on many of the key issues including Medicare and provider payment...
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“Spread the Wealth” Controversy Hits Doctors
By Maggie Mahar & Niko Karvounis By now you know that Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) has offered a “Call to Arms” for health care reform by way of a 98-page policy document. There is much to think about in Baucus’...
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Battling MRSA with transparency
By Sarah Arnquist Two weeks ago, I made an emergency trip home to Minnesota because my grandmother fell ill. She went to the emergency room on a Sunday night, complaining of fatigue and shortness of breath. The emergency physician diagnosed...
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