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Tag Archives: Lobbying
Why Only Business Can Save America From Health Care
Brian Klepper Posted 3/24/13 on Medscape Connect’s Care and Cost Blog For a large and growing number of us with meager or no coverage, health care is the ultimate “gotcha.” Events conspire, we receive care and then are on the … Continue reading →
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Arriving at the Beginning
Brian Klepper Posted 11/12/12 on Medscape Connect’s Care & Cost Blog The most striking aspect of the election was that it decisively clarified the philosophical preferences of most Americans. And because the outcome was largely determined by minorities, women, and the young, … Continue reading →
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Posted in Analytics, Health Care Cost, Market Dynamics, Medical Management, Policy/Law/Regulation, Politics, Quality, Reform
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Tagged Affordable Care Act, Brian Klepper, Lobbying, PPACA, Reform
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Primary Care’s Dilemma
Brian Klepper Posted 9/12/12 on Medscape Connect’s Care and Cost Blog Early in the new documentary, Escape Fire, which provides detailed portraits of US health care’s craziness, we meet Erin Martin MD, a young primary care physician in The Dalles, OR, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Direct Primary Care, Lobbying, Primary Care, Qliance
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Who Will Speak For Physicians and Their Patients?
Brian Klepper Posted 8/29/12 on Medscape Connect’s Care and Cost Blog Dr. George Lundberg has an important article on Medpage Today that deserves the thoughtful consideration of every American physician. He argues that the American Medical Association, a successful and representative organization for many … Continue reading →
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The Game’s Not Over, and It May Not Even Be The Real Game
The rancor preceding and surrounding the Supreme Court decision is, to some degree, a reflection of our national dysfunction: our inability to have fact-based discussions and our unwillingness to directly confront dire problems that threaten the public interest. Continue reading →
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Tagged Brian Klepper, Health Reform Law, Individual Mandate, Lobbying, Politics, PPACA, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
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Galvanizing Primary Care’s Power: A Call For A New Society
Brian Klepper Posted 6/25/12 on Medscape’s Care & Cost Blog The dream of reason did not take power into account – modern medicine is one of those extraordinary works of reason – but medicine is also a world of power. Paul Starr, The … Continue reading →
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Tagged Brian Klepper, Lobbying, Medical Societies, POWER, Primary Care
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The Right Rx for Better Health Care: Rise Up to Challenge the Industry’s Lobbying Power
Brian Klepper and Shannon Brownlee Published 3/29/12 in the New York Daily News Obamacare had its days in the Supreme Court this week, and the justices’ decision could have sweeping consequences for the individual mandate provision in the Patient Protection … Continue reading →
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Posted in Conflicts of Interest, Health Care Cost, Market Dynamics, Medical Management, Physicians, Policy/Law/Regulation, Politics, Quality, Reform, Supply Chain
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Tagged ACA, Affordable Care Act, Brian Klepper, Greed, Health Care Cost, Health Care Excess, Lobbying, PPACA, Shannon Brownlee
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How the Medical Device Industry Lobbies
Merrill Goozner Posted 2/29/12 on Public Citizen “I think it’s important for members (of Congress) to hear from industry.” So said Carrie Hartgen, a vice-president at AdvaMed, the medical device industry association, discussing another coordinated lobby effort before Congress. Her comment … Continue reading →
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Tagged Lobbying, Medical Device Industry
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Connecting the Dots: How Anticompetitive Contracting Practices, Kickbacks, and Self-dealing by Hospital Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs) Caused the U. S. Drug Shortage
Brian’s Note: This piece found its way to me yesterday and, with the author’s permission, I’m republishing it in its entirety. It is a very long but worthwhile read, mostly because it clarifies what we’re up against. Kudos to Ms. … Continue reading →
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Why Only Non-Health Care Business Can Save America From The Health Care Industry
Brian Klepper The attached PP deck is a presentation I’ve given several times that has received an overwhelmingly positive, if frightened, reception. It is, perhaps, the most disturbing public argument of my career (which is going some), because it tries to … Continue reading →
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Posted in Analytics, Benefits, Brian Klepper, Conflicts of Interest, Medical Management, Policy/Law/Regulation, Politics, Quality, Reform
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Tagged Brian Klepper, Excess Cost, Fee For Service Reimbursement, Health Industry, Lobbying, Non-Health Care Business, Primary Care, RUC, Transparency
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Physician Dispensing in Florida – Can Money Buy Bad Policy?
Joe Paduda Posted 1/24/12 on Managed Care Matters One of the most powerful firms in the physician dispensing business is sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to elected officials in Florida. [sub req] The donations, to individual politicians and their affiliated organizations, … Continue reading →
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Uwe on Premium Support and Vouchers
Matthew Holt Posted 12/24/11 on The Health Care Blog There’s a great post by Uwe Reinhardt on the NY Time Economix blog explaining the theoretical difference between premium support and voucher systems (and you thought they were the same thing!). Unfortunately it … Continue reading →
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Posted in Analytics, Market Dynamics, Medical Management, Policy/Law/Regulation, Quality, Recycled But Relevant, Reform, Tools
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Tagged ACA, Affordable Care Act, Lobbying, Matthew Holt, Uwe Reinhardt
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There is Only One Issue in America
Steve Van Zandt Posted 12/10/11 on Huffington Post I was obsessed with politics in the ’80s. I’ve recovered and I’m feeling much better now thank you. By the time I realized, as interesting as it was, I’d better stop this … Continue reading →
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Tagged America, Lobbying, POWER, Steven Van Zandt
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Scary Predictions
Merrill Goozner Posted 11/26/11 on Gooz News Writing in next week’s New England Journal of Medicine, Harvard professor David Blumenthal, former head of Medicare’s health information technology division, forecasts the following scenario should the Republicans win the White House and both houses … Continue reading →
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Posted in Market Dynamics, Medical Management, Physicians, Policy/Law/Regulation, Quality, Reform
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Tagged David Blumenthal, Lobbying, Merrill Goozner, Reform
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The Ryan Health Care Proposals—Not Your Congressman’s Health Plan
Robert Laszewski First posted 9/28/11 on Health Policy and Marketplace Review In a speech at the Hoover Institution today, Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) argued again that his proposal to reform Medicare, and now his tax credit proposal for replacing the Democratic … Continue reading →
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Tagged Bob Laszewski, Lobbying, Medicare, Paul Ryan, Tax Credit
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