Health Wonk Review—Top Health-Care Posts in the Blogosphere

Health Wonk Review, a round-up of some of the best posts in the Healthcare blogosphere over the last two weeks, is now up on Health Business Blog, hosted by David Williams here:.
http://www.healthbusinessblog.com/?p=2556
http://www.healthbusinessblog.com/

Just a few highlights:

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation presents a users’ guide to health reform. Key assertion: if we improve efficiency in health care we can avoid cost/coverage tradeoffs

Managed Care Matters offers the top ten misconceptions about health reform. Reason #2: “A public plan would crush private insurers and we’d all end up covered by the public plan,:

Heath Care Renewal thinks hospital Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs) are acting more like Group Kickback Organizations. As Williams points out, Roy Poses, the editor of Health Care Renewal has  written about this problem “as far back as 2005, but now investigators are taking an interest”  This is very good news.

To find links to these, and other top posts, go to
http://www.healthbusinessblog.com/?p=2556
http://www.healthbusinessblog.com/

 

Comments

[Cordelia]

http://www.medicareaustralia.gov.au/about/whatwedo/health-system/index.jsp

[judybrowni]

60 members of the House made it clear they won't vote for a bill without a public option.

In five days, FireDogLake and partners raised nearly $400,000 for progressive members of Congress who agree to draw a line in the sand over a public plan.

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http://www.actblue.com/page/theytookthepledge

[Maggie Mahar]

Thanks Hootsbuddy--

I corrected it.

[Maggie Mahar]

Thanks Hootsbuddy--

I corrected it.

[John Ballard]

Links are broken but I found the site with Google.
http://www.healthbusinessblog.com/?p=2556
http://www.healthbusinessblog.com/
That "dll" part may be the problem. I'm not a geek but I think that means "dynamic link library" which is something in hard drive software, not the net.