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Health Care Reform Hit Parade: Senate Mix by Francine H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Now that the big “debate the bill” vote is passed, we have a week for pundits on both sides of the aisle to misinform the public about what the future of the healt ... Read on »

Another Mammogram Voice by Francine H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I feel compelled to add my voice to all the others talking about mammograms.I spent years married to a radiologist who did nothing all day but diagnose DCIS and other cancers. ... Read on »

NCQA Gives Poor Grades to AZ Health Plans by Francine H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy US News’ latest issue has a ranked list of the top ten health plans in the nation. No surprise that none of Arizona’s plans made the list of top ten commercial pl ... Read on »

Speaking, Not Shouting by Francine H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Federal health care reform legislation would appear to be headed Arizona’s way sometime soon. Already there are thoughts from different groups about how to deal (or not ... Read on »

Three Realms of Medicine by Francine H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy In the new book, The Innovator’s Prescription, the authors propose a number of “disruptive” solutions to “right” America’s health care shi ... Read on »

Potent Medicine by Francine H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy A recent article in Wired Magazine documents what Big Pharma already knows: one of the most powerful pills on the market is the placebo, and it’s getting more effective ... Read on »

Poverty Consciousness by Francine H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I had planned to officially retire next year. Then my modest financial portfolio went south with the rest of the market, and I pushed the date back one year. The market has ... Read on »

Fat Studies by Francine H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy While we’re on this thread, we notice that “fat studies” has hit academia. Much like women’s studies, gay and lesbian studies and critical race studie ... Read on »

Life is Too Short for Oatmeal by Francine H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Perhaps you’ve seen the new billboard with a picture of a huge caramel sticky bun, along with the caption, “Life is too short for oatmeal.” A red Quick Trip ... Read on »

It’s Not Called Junk for Nothing by Francine H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy A recent study from Scripps Research documents that the brain responds to junk food the same way that it does to heroin. Apparently obesity and drug addiction have common neu ... Read on »

Short and On the Money by Francine H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy For a real expert’s distinction between rationing and allocation, view this graphic video from Art Caplan’s presentation at SLHI’s conference of “The R ... Read on »

Rationing by Francine H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy “What happens when you don’t get the health care you want and feel entitled to? When this happens to others, it’s called the intelligent allocation of scarc ... Read on »

Learn Whether You Should be a 501(c)(3) by Francine H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Do you have a program or service… …perhaps one that provides volunteer services, helps persons with disabilities, targets youth, obesity or some other community ... Read on »

The House Bill: A Shocking Blow to Women’s Health by Francine H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy My source on HR 3962, Timothy Jost of Health Affairs Blog, says this about Saturday night’s big change in the House health care reform bill, the Stupak amendment:The St ... Read on »

Arizona Entrepreneurship Conference Features Health Care Innovators by Francine H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I’ve been a bit less active on the reform front this week because I’m preparing for next week’s Arizona Entrepreneurship Conference,, which will of course ha ... Read on »

Why health care reform matters: This could be any of us by Francine H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy (Note: A friend asked me to post this here. She is a real person with a real job who doesn’t want to be identified, for reasons that will be apparent when you read it. H ... Read on »

Health Care Reform and the Economy by Francine H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy This morning I was listening to The Diane Rehm show, because it was a segment on health care and the economy. What was amazing about the show was the consensus among guests fr ... Read on »

What’s in the Latest House Bill? by Francine H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Admittedly, this is a fast-changing story, but here, from the Health Affairs Blog, are the highlights of the new House Bill. The writer is an attorney who has written a book o ... Read on »

First Pass: What the House Health Care Reform Bill Does Right Now by Francine H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Brace yourself for drama when debate begins on HR 3962, the modified Affordable Health Care Act for America. It’s 1900 pages long (though truly, those are 1/2 pages so ... Read on »

One Third of Health Care Dollars Are Wasted, Study Says by Francine H. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy We knew it all along. One third of the dollars spent on health care are wasted, and 22% of that waste is outright Medicare fraud. I don’t know if you saw 60 Minutes last ... Read on »

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