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After writing about the egregious goings on at Grady Hospital, which provides healthcare for the poor and indigent in Atlanta, GA, where they proposed denying dialysis patients to non-US citizens as a way to cut costs (which is a death sentence) (see “Grady Hospital Tells Non-US Dialysis Patients to Leave or Die“), I [...]
Grady Hospital, the public hospital here in Atlanta GA that provides care for the indigent sick, has been having financial troubles in recent years with multimillion deficits. Now based on the recommendations of an outside consulting firm they have proposed saving money by denying dialysis treatments to Non-citizens. For those who are not familiar with [...]
Well I felt a LEETLE bit guilty for photo-shopping the faces of the heads of the major healthcare lobbying groups onto the bodies of animals, after the son of one of these personages commented on the post, basically saying that I had no proof that the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AMTA) was against the public option [...]
President Barack Obama basically gave away the farm today when he indicated that he was open to giving up the public option for healthcare insurance, saying that he would not “draw a line in the sand” over the issue. Rahm Emanuel was quoted as saying:
The lobby for hospitals, the American Hospital Association (AHA) headed by Richard Umbdenstock, contacted heads of hospitals across the land and urged them to “push back” against President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform. Obama decided that he could come up with part of the one trillion dollars he will need over the next decade to pay for healthcare for all by cutting payments to hospitals by 200 billion dollars.
An article in the New Yorker called The Cost Conundrum by Atul Gawande MD has gotten the attention of the current administration in Washington. The news that McAllen TX had the most expensive healthcare in the country as measured by Medicare expenditure per capita
President Barack Obama has decided to take a more hands on approach to healthcare reform, with plans for speeches, town hall meetings, and direct meetings with legislators, instead of sitting back and waiting for Congress to mess things up. That might be a good thing,
Hilarious spoof on fake medical journals published by Elsevier from the late Pharma Giles
This week President Barack Obama named Thomas Frieden MD as Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, GA, and Dr. Margaret Hamburg as Director of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with Joshua Sharfstein MD as Deputy Director.
As I have written about before, sociologists know that there is a group of innovators, early adaptors, and then the “herd” that follows along (see “Diffusion of Innovations in Service Organizations” or “Disseminating Innovations in Healthcare”). It is true for farmers in Costa Rica adopting a new type of grain seed, or for psychiatrists prescribing a new brand of antipsychotic.
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