Rethinking Health Care: “People, Process, and Technology”

The Harvard Business Review is running a three week long series called Innovations in Health Care that is worth turning your attention toward. In today’s post, Jim Champy argues that government led health care reform will not be effective unless care givers radically rethink the health care delivery...

Dear GOP – the collective you are an Idiot

I came across this post on the blog of author Jay Lake. The original posting in quoted below in it’s entirety. Originally posted by ladyqkat at Dear GOP – the collective you are an Idiot (Post originally seen in this post by ramblin_phyl. I have been notified that it was originally posted by...

Healthcare Hypocrisy at it’s Finest

For what it’s worth (as if they needed my link-love as much as I appreciate theirs), the good folks at Crooks and Liars deserve a link back for this jaw-dropping piece. Today is a happy day for many GOP freshmen Congressmen. Why? Because as of today, their government-subsidized health care is in...

Republican’s Losing Support for Health Care Repeal

Today is the day that the Republican leadership in the House will take up their attempt at repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or as they like to call it, “Obama Care.” If you listen to their rhetoric you will hear them say that this was the reason they won back the House in...

Mark Your Calendars, Jan. 12 is Repeal Healthcare Day

And it is certain to go down in history as one of the most blatant and toothless political stunts in Congressional history. Countless Republicans made the repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act the centerpiece of their campaigns this fall, and now the incoming GOP majority is planning...

Welcome Home You Socialist Bastard

It was bound to happen. Less than 24 hours after arriving at the home of my in-laws in rural Southern Maryland – the first time I have been back to the U.S. in a year – the discussion turned to the health care debate. No I didn’t start it and no I had no intention of agitating the family...