Category Archives: Medicare

OK, I admit it. I forgot to bring the MedPac Report

There aren’t many classes that one takes in graduate school that is worthy of a book, especially at a marginally known program such as the M.B.A. program at the University of Kansas.  But that is exactly what came out of … Continue reading

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The Efficiency Trap

There is a story about a man who, soon after China began to allow tourists, decided to run across mainland China.  The Chinese approved what they considered a rather odd request as most Chinese at the time wondered why any … Continue reading

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Medicare Wants to Save Primary Care … but is this the way?

Medicare’s solution to saving Primary Care ignores the realities of today’s medical delivery system and continues to refuse to face and solve the problems that all of medicine faces every day. Continue reading

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