How to Create a More Just, Two Tiered Healthcare System on the Cheap

You know I love a  solid economic assessment of healthcare: Either Americans in the higher income strata must step up to the cashier’s window to help subsidize, with higher income taxes, the health care of the most hard-working members of the lower income classes, or the United States will have to evolve toward a noticeable two-tiered or...

Hospitals See Drop in Paying Patients

Per our webinar on the financial crisis:  In another sign of the economy’s toll on the nation’s health care system, some hospitals say they are seeing fewer paying patients — even as greater numbers of people are showing up at emergency rooms unable to pay their bills. – Hospitals See Drop in Paying Patients, New York Times I was...

The Impact on the Global Financial Crisis, Part II

MedTouch Webinar: The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Healthcare, Part II from MedTouch on Vimeo. The news about the financial sector meltdown is everywhere, but how will it impact healthcare? In this second part of a special webinar, Paul Griffiths, the CEO of MedTouch, will walk through how the sub-prime crisis led into Wall St....

The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Healthcare, Part I

The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Healthcare, Part I from MedTouch on...

The Global Financial Crisis and Healthcare: A Special Webinar

If, like me, you’ve been watching the global financial crisis with awe and dismay, you’ve probably started wondering how all of this will impact healthcare. In brief, there are three main financial instruments that have kept many hospitals open in the last few years — bonds, investments, and charitable giving — and each...