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BlogsReforming the funding of long term care in the US
The US is not that different from Europe in the funding of long term care but urgent reform is needed.
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BlogsInnovation in healthcare: ‘There’s a way to do it better – find it’
Alexandra Norrish on the lessons the UK can learn from the US health system’s long tradition of innovation
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BlogsHarkness Fellows: can payment reform improve public health?
Payment reform for healthcare delivery in the US could improve not only the service provided, but public health as well, writes Douglas Noble
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BlogsHarkness Fellows: expect the unexpected
In the first blog from the 2012-13 Harkness Fellows, Julia Murphy reflects on the first few months of her fellowship and her impressions of the US healthcare system
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Candy coated cartels, fear and loathing - is there a better way forward?
How might policymakers, regulators and healthcare leaders work constructively to produce an informed and proportionate competition regime applied to the NHS?
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Accountable care organisations: revolution or business as usual?
The Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act in the US could have wide ranging implications for the future of healthcare. Or could it?
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Will 2012 be the year of the accountable care organization?
Setting aside the controversy over reform, the hot topic for 2012 will be integrated care. In the US, accountable care organizations could help drive integration - as long as they are given time to demonstrate their value.
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Just do it! (Subject to rules and regulations)
I’m only a couple of months into my year in the USA, but I’ve quickly picked up how things are done here.
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BlogsGo Red Sox
Reflections as my year as a Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow 2010-2011 draws to a close..
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Inadvertent integration?
Recent reports from the US and UK suggest primary care and hospitals merging on both sides of the Atlantic. But are we missing these opportunities to understand truly integrated care in the NHS?
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Trick or treat ...
The spectre of the US mid-term elections will be lingering well past Halloween. But are there any lessons in all this for how we handle our own health reforms?
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Don Berwick’s appointment to CMS and the politics of “If we don’t have it, you don’t need it”
Today, Don Berwick was sworn in as the new leader of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. While Berwick commands the widest respect, many feared that his appointment could be delayed or hampered in congressional hearings by opponents to health reform whose goal it is to make the countless next ...
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US health care reform: I know it's over (and it never really began)
US legislators finally passed health care reform. Or, at least, extensive health care tinkering.
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Brown bags Blue Hills as Coakley chokes
The US’s flirtation with liberalism lasted precisely one year, the time it took to go from staring doe-eyed at the newly inaugurated Barack Obama to sucking the face off model republican Scott Brown.
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Tantalos a l’americaine, wellness incentives and (no end to?) medical underwriting
wellness incentives can be a useful part of prevention strategies, but proposals in the current health reform bills threaten to undermine affordability of care
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Is the US ready for evidence based care?
What does the controversy about mammography screening tell us?
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Thing One and Thing Two
Over the past few weeks the legislative spotlight has moved from the Senate to the House, and members of the lower house have been revelling in it.
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Living with 'socialized medicine'
Targets have reduced waiting times, but how else do they affect care in a nationally funded health care system?
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The surgical ninety day money back guarantee
Geisinger promises to get surgery right first time or your money back