Text from President Obama’s Address to Congress: …We must also address the crushing cost of health care. This is a cost that now causes a bankruptcy in America every thirty seconds. By the end of the year, it could cause 1.5 million Americans to lose their homes. In the last eight years, premiums have grown [...]
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President Obama: “We Must Address the Crushing Cost of Health Care.”
Posted on 24 February 2009.
Posted in e-health, healthcare0 Comments
The True Cost of Friendship? 1/10th of a Hamburger. Burger King gets jettisoned from Facebook.
Posted on 29 January 2009.
Frequent guests know of my love for all things Facebook and winsome burger commercials, but I never thought the two would meet so well. The NY Times reports today about the lose a friend, gain a whopper campaign: While many trivial actions do prompt Facebook to post an alert to all your friends… striking someone [...]
Posted in Facebook, Marketing, social media0 Comments
Forget Bernie Madoff, is Social Security the #1 Ponzi Scheme?
Posted on 08 January 2009.
In the wake of the Madoff disaster, I have read some minor op-eds citing Social Security as the biggest Ponzi scheme ever. Really? Honestly, I would think that this kind of talk might not warrant coverage from CNBC, whose article “The Real ‘Mother’ of All Ponzi Schemes” likens our national safety net for seniors and the [...]
Posted in healthcare spending, Madoff, ponzi, Social Security2 Comments
My Healthcare Options Penalizes Hospitals and Confuses Consumers
Posted on 22 December 2008.
Recently, the Massachusetts Health Care Quality and Cost Council unveiled its new website, My Healthcare Options. While intended to directly support consumers and physicians as a decision-making tool, the site unnecessarily penalizes otherwise good hospitals through inconsistent ratings, by presenting those ratings without context, through a bias against larger hospitals, and by penalizing hospitals for [...]
Posted in hospital quality, hospital safety1 Comment
My Healthcare Options
Posted on 11 December 2008.
The long, long, long awaited — and perhaps feared — Massachusetts quality and cost site just launched yesterday, entitled MyHealthcareOptions. Despite a funky stretched out picture on the homepage and a cartoony rating stars that evoke a Mario Brothers outing more than Michelen fine linen, I’ve been having fun poking around the site already. True, [...]
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