Category Archives: Heathcare Reform
A whole new world
October 28, 2011 – 9:44 AM
Five years ago this month my byline began appearing on the pages of Medical Device Daily. When I first joined the MDD staff in October 2006 I knew very little about this industry. It was like moving to a new…
Why isn’t more preventative healthcare covered by insurance?
October 21, 2011 – 5:30 PM
I went to see my doctor a few weeks ago for a physical. Since I just turned 40, he recommended that I have a CT scan to check for calcification in my heart valves. Maybe I would have said “no,”…
Military Healthcare: The Good, The Bad, & and The Ugly
September 28, 2011 – 8:00 AM
As the wife of an active duty service member, I really hate to complain about the military healthcare system. There are a lot of benefits to being covered under Tricare, the military’s healthcare plan. But in the five years that…
What docs are hearing about healthcare reform’s finances
September 27, 2011 – 10:32 AM
Healthcare reform has as a million audiences, and it’s interesting to see what some of them are reading about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). Let’s look at an opinion piece appearing recently in the New England Journal…
Trade Associations are life jackets for med-tech in age of uncertainty
August 13, 2011 – 4:14 PM
Tuesday night during its quarterly meeting, the Southeastern Medical Device Association (SEMDA; Norcross, Georgia) unveiled its new logo and its new website, which is set to go live in the very near future.
The future of healthcare spending: Will ROI be King?
August 10, 2011 – 4:13 PM
Most of us had to take a course or two in economics to get a bachelor’s degree, but few of us remember very much from those lessons. I can’t say for certain that Econ 101 is where I first heard…
Doc fix awaiting another patch
May 31, 2011 – 11:02 PM
Now that the U.S. House of Representatives has voted down a higher debt ceiling for the U.S. government, Congress can go back the drawing board on deciding how many Medicare spending cuts the voters and stakeholders can stomach, but as…
Berwick nomination stymied by poisonous partisan politics
April 14, 2011 – 12:56 PM
By most objective accounts, Donald Berwick is doing a pretty decent job as chief administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, giving CMS a much-needed shot in the arm and kick in the . . . well, you…
