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My Big Idea For Healthcare: Pricing Transparency

Mary Pat Whaley | LinkedIn | June 6, 2013

Last December I wrote about what I thought would be the "Big Idea" for healthcare in 2013. "Show me the fees!" I said. Well, they have - in fact, much more than I would have ever imagined. 2013 has seen an explosion in pricing transparency in healthcare - or maybe better said, charging information in healthcare... Read More »

My Name Is Rob. And I’m A Recovering Doctor.

Rob Lamberts | The Health Care Blog | June 22, 2013

Yeah, I am recovering…doing a lot better, actually. Things are tough, but they are a lot better since I left my destructive relationship with Medicare, Medicaid, and insurance companies. I’ve had to learn how to manage my own money (now that I can’t count on them to bail me out any more), but things are looking a lot better... Read More »

New Healthcare.gov Is Open, CMS-Free

Dave Cole | Development Seed | March 12, 2013

HHS CTO Bryan Sivak previews details and vision for relaunch of the high-profile government website Read More »

New State Data On Obamacare Enrollment Trends Show How Scheme Is Failing

Scott Gottlieb | Forbes | December 20, 2013

The White House obfuscates when it comes to Obamacare enrollment results. But some of the individual states that have established their own on-line exchanges (and sidestepped healthcare.gov) have been forthcoming... Read More »

New York State Hospital Data Exposes Big Markups, And Odd Bargains

Nina Bernstein | New York Times | December 9, 2013

Just how expensive is your hospital? In New York, the answer may lie in a trove of hospital cost data newly posted online by the State Health Department. Read More »

No, Madam Secretary, Prices On Healthcare.gov Are Not A “Hypothetical Situation”

Gregory Ferenstein | TechCrunch | October 30, 2013

Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, wins the award today for most creative political spin. During a congressional grilling about the failings of the federal e-commerce website, Healthcare.gov, the secretary now claims that insurance prices are merely “hypothetical situations.” Read More »

No, You Can’t Just Go to the Emergency Room—Unless You Want to Go Broke

Tim Murphy | Mother Jones | October 18, 2013

Or: Why I'm so glad I have health insurance. About three weeks ago I was walking home from the grocery store when a group of teenagers demanded my wallet, cellphone, and—for reasons I can't fully explain—gallon of whole milk. Although I made no effort to resist, I ended up with a laceration on my lip that required stitches, fairly intense swelling on both sides of my head that required X-rays, and a bruised rib. [...]

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Obama Calls For IT Procurement Reform

Tom Shoop | Nextgov | November 5, 2013

President Obama on Monday called for an overhaul of the way the federal government purchases information technology in the wake of the troubled launch of the Healthcare.gov website. Read More »

Obama's Apology For A Tech Meltdown Is A Major Letdown

Ashlee Vance | Bloomberg | October 21, 2013

Back in June, the Atlantic wrote a gushing article about HealthCare.gov. The website was fast, clean, and built on the cheap. [...]. As most people now know, any good feelings around HealthCare.gov have evaporated. People trying to use the site to sign up for health care under the Affordable Care Act have met with an experience that even dial-up users circa 1995 would abhor... Read More »

Obama: Technology Will Make Health Insurance Transparent

Meghan Foley | Wall St. Cheat Sheet | July 9, 2013

President Barack Obama signed an executive order in May that made all federal data freely accessible in a form that can be used by software developers, which has come to be known as “machine-readable format.” [...] Read More »

Obamacare And The New Soviet Man

Wendy McElroy | The Daily Bell | November 14, 2013

Obamacare's failure to enlist young people into its ranks may well result in an American version of the New Soviet Man. That man was the communist ideal of a person who served the state and its leader with selfless devotion. Read More »

ObamaCare as Corporatists United: A Huge Bailout for Another Failing Industry

Clark Newhall | PNHP | June 29, 2012

The ideology that drives the Supreme Court, the political administration and the Congress is not Conservative or Liberal but can best be described as Corporatist. This is the ideology that affirms that “corporations are citizens, my friends.” It is the ideology that drove the Roberts court to the odious Citizens United decision. It is the ideology behind a bailout for banks that are "too big to fail." And it is the ideology that allows Congress to pass a law like the ACA that is essentially written by a favored industry.