Healthcare, Senior Living, Economics
Information and discussion on general federal health policy and politics – including Medicare, Health Reform and all other subjects Fed.
This seemed to be a natural successor topic to my last post, “Why Quality Matters”; principally arising out of recent press releases from the OIG. For example, in June the OIG reported that it had recovered $2.4 Billion in fraud, waste and abuse. In July, an OIG release reported that a Nursing Home Executive was banned … Read more
On Monday I wrote about the abyss that is the current state of healthcare reform in Washington – the enormous black hole that the U.S. will certainly fall in if we as a nation, progress along the path chosen by Mr. Obama and his party. Succinctly put, the expense of Federalizing healthcare in the U.S. combined … Read more
Fresh off an oversea tour and a visit to France no less, the President returns promising to become more engaged and agressive in getting his healthcare plan passed; ideally says he, by this summer. The reasons Mr. Obama proffers are many and urgent. Chief among the reasons is that the system (healthcare) is broke (and … Read more