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Can health care providers deliver care on a budget?
Want to save $2 trillion in health care spending over the next decade? It could be done without adversely impacting care, if our government used its influence to bring soaring costs into line with economic growth.
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How can we grow the organ-donor database?
Spectrum Health has completed its first lung transplant — and this brings to mind the need for people to consider pledging their organs for transplants after they no longer need them.
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Where does the trail of health care waste lead?
More than a third of annual U.S. health spending may be wasteful. Now that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, requires everyone who can afford insurance coverage to obtain it, increased attention is coming to focus on ways to assure that insurance provides value, not waste.
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Pine Rest steps up with psychiatric residency program
Most people have heard that there is a growing shortage of primary care doctors. But are they also aware that there is a shortage of psychiatrists, too?
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The ambulance as a patient-care touchpoint
Health care folks increasingly are being rated for the way they relate to patients. The patient experience is one way to assess satisfaction with care –– since high-quality measures are often not known to patients, and the costs rarely are unknown. Patients and their families know and understand how they are being treated by providers.
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Health care programs wait at the fiscal cliff
The looming fiscal cliff has implications for health care. The package of automatic spending cuts and tax hikes is set to kick in during January 2013 unless President Obama and Capitol Hill agree on a way to stop them. Here are some items of interest regarding health care.
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Obamacare takes turn toward compromise
Some in health care are viewing President Obama's victory as a validation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).
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Health care workforce fading behind patient demand
Some of the biggest areas of concern about health care include financial accessibility, physical accessibility, quality and cost. The health care workforce is of huge importance underlying these concerns.
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Supreme Courts health care decision offers opportunity
The decision by the Supreme Court to uphold the Affordable Care Act is a significant step forward in changing our health care system. The law triggered considerable controversy, particularly for its requirement that everyone must buy health insurance, and even supporters admit that the law has flaws. Moreover, its political future is far from certain.
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