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CNN reports that physicians sometimes have trouble owning a small business and the Miami Herald reports on how new technology might prove healthful.
CNN: Doctors Going Broke Half of all doctors in the nation operate a private practice. … Doctors list shrinking insurance reimbursements, changing regulations, rising business and drug costs among the factors preventing them from keeping their practices afloat.
News outlets report on state health policy developments in California, Kansas, Massachusetts, Georgia, Michigan, Texas, Connecticut and Washington.
The Washington Post: In Kansas, Gov. Sam Brownback Puts Tea Party Tenets Into Action With Sharp Cuts If you want to know what a Tea Party America might look like, there is no place like Kansas. In the past year, three state agencies have been abolished and 2,050 jobs have been cut. Funding for schools, social services and the arts have been slashed. The new Republican governor rejected a $31.5 million federal grant for a new health-insurance exchange because he opposes President Obama’s health-care law. An
Sometimes life just aint fair. Good people sometimes die young, while bad people can live a long and healthy life. People judge us on our looks, as we do them whether wed like to admit it or not. And as much as it pains us, things dont always work out as wed like them to.
The key phrase is: as wed like them to.
The following series will take a look at 3 facts of life that arent all that fair. But rather than complaining about them, well go in to specific things we can do to change them so that they benefit us, rather than hinder us or bring us down.
A study uses a new measure to judge nation’s health care, another asks doctors to rate the best and worst insurers.
Modern Healthcare: Patient Data Key To Use Of Performance Measures: Study The availability of patient data is the most important factor affecting the use of performance measures, according to a report by the National Quality Forum. The report—commissioned by NQF and authored by the Rand Corp.—examined how performance measures are being used and what improvements might be made (McKinney, 12/8).
WBUR’s CommonHealth blog: Better Doctor-Shopping Is On The Way — But Will You Use It? The fed
