Europe has been hit hard by fierce Winter storms. The storms killed dozens of people. France was particularly hard hit. The Epoch Timessays at least 50 were killed in France with the death toll expected to rise. The storms are considered to be the worst in France since 1999. Take a look:
By PAUL LEVY A conversation with a reporter yesterday helped me clarify my thoughts about federal health care legislation. In my view, the most effective role of the federal government would be to provide national standards by which the health...
By ROBERT LASZEWSKI There is politics and there is policy. On the policy front what we saw today was the same exchange of the old talking points we have watched for a longtime. No progress was made toward any kind...
By ROB LAMBERTS I am writing this as a representative of the examination room - one who sits facing patients, dealing with our healthcare delivery "system" on a daily basis. I am writing this as one who will bear the...
By Matthew Holt This is not a fun day for athenahealth, and frankly with HIMSS coming up, not a fun time to have such a day. None of this has anything to do with their products or their client services,...
By Matthew Holt For those of you just getting up on Friday, here's a little taste of the atmosphere we're drinking in for the upcoming Health 2.0 Europe conference. And yes, we have been working hard here too! Health 2.0...
By SARAH PALIN Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, who played a major and highly controversial role in the health reform debate last year, published her response to the Obama plan on her Facebook page yesterday. In the spirit of debate,...
By NAOMI FREUNDLICH President Obama’s latest plan for health reform brought a flurry of commentary in the last two days; including divergent views on whether his commitment to "transparency" is helping or hurting the process. Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times...
By ROBERT LASZEWSKI It is hard to see how the health care plan the President released this week changes anything. There is nothing new in it save a health insurance rate regulatory board that is an awkward political proposal at...
By PAUL LEVY One of the arcane steps in government regulation of health care is the Physician Payment Rule. This is the manner in which CMS, the Medicare agency, annually allocates payment dollars among the various specialty services. The PPR...
