Health Business Blog
Focusing on business and policy issues in health care. Written by David E. Williams, co-founder of MedPharma Partners
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May 16, 12 07:21PMHealth care cost containment is no longer a fantasy. While health expenditures have increased much faster than GDP for many years a combination of factors is likely to bring that trend to an end: hard economic...
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May 15, 12 07:57AMThis morning Castlight Health named former Medco executive John Driscoll as its new President. In this podcast interview John describes his new role and the opportunities he’s looking forward to Topics...
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May 15, 12 06:30AMCastlight Health is getting serious about pursuing its ambition to bring health care transparency to employers and payers. Earlier this month it announced a $100 million Series D investment and today it...
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May 15, 12 05:58AMCheck out the latest Health Wonk Review at Insure Blog. (I’m five days late with this announcement but the posts are still timely.) Share
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May 14, 12 07:52PMI’m fascinated by the topics raised in a new Health Affairs article, “Authoritarian Physicians and Patients’ Fear Of Being Labeled ‘Difficult’ Among Key Obstacles To Shar ed...
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May 11, 12 06:45AMThe updated transcript of my interview with Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA CEO Andrew Dreyfus has moved. Please access the new version here. Share
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May 11, 12 05:02AMThis is the transcript of my recent podcast interview with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts CEO Andrew Dreyfus. I inadvertently published an earlier draft this morning. Sorry about that. David Williams...
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May 10, 12 11:01AMThe belief that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” is so well ingrained that it makes it easy to think we can solve our health care cost crisis the easy way, by increasing s pending...
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May 09, 12 01:45PMIt’s not exactly new information that ionizing radiation is dangerous, so I was a bit shocked four years ago when I learned just how cavalier large segments of the medical community have been in exposing...
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May 08, 12 05:04AMThere’s been no shortage of interest in the Massachusetts health care system this election year, and the level of attention is certain to be sustained as Mitt Romney, who signed near universal h ealth...
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