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The Health Wonk Review An Example of the Facts Education and Spin Behind the Lingering Debate on Obamacare and Health Reform
The Disease Management Care Blog had a Hurricane Sandy choice: either a) leave day before that early A.M. hospital procedure and stay with friends who live close by, or b) stay at home and make the long trip in the wind and the rain to the hospital that same morning. The DMCB spouse turned to repetitive education to help the DMCB make the right choice.
Does that learning tactic underlie Obamacare supporter Maggie Mahars approach to the latest Health Wonk Review? Thats what the DMCB thought when it read Maggies posting.
To help the thousands of health orm realists who make up the DMCB readership, Hurricane Maggie repetitively retreads the cost-control talking points from orm architect Peter Orszag, surgeon Golden Boy Atul Gawande and the White House Office of Management and Budget Rest assured, says Maggie, if you selectively counter the DMCBs fiction with facts, youll realize Washington DCs solutions are the right choice.
The DMCB isnt too sure about that.
Maggie doesnt argue health care costs arent rising, only that the increases are less than widely claimed. She credits Obamacare. The Disease Management Care Blog agrees that cost trends are moderating, but it also credits a lackluster economy.
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Maggie says be of good cheer, because the increased costs are delivering correspondingly better value for the health care dollar. The DMCB says value remains an inexact science that is ill-suited to simplistic nostrums and blunt force laws and regulations. The latest examples of this conundrum include mammograms and annual check ups. There are plenty of others like this.
Maggie points to Massachusettss Atul Gawandes brimming optimism about Massachusetts leading the way with risk and performance contracting as a cost-control panacea. The DMCB awaits the arrival of hard macroeconomic outcomes data that proves the experiment works. It also points out that the Bay States recently passed cost control legislation speaks volumes on what that states leaders really think about the savings-success of Romneycare.
Last but not least, not everyone on the blue side of political spectrum shares Maggies optimism.
By the way, the DMCB has received a cost estimate from the unnamed hospital mentioned above. That institution is the flagship part of a nationally recognized integrated delivery system that is a basis for much of Maggie Mahars enthusiasm. The DMCBs planned procedure coupled with OR charges and an overnight stay will result in charges, prior to discounts and contracted rates, in excess of $100,000.
For those of us with a lingering doubt that our political classs health orm sound-bites, nostrums, talking points and pronouncements will cut through all those inconvenient facts, the DMCB recommends this catchy tune. Youll feel a lot better:
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The Health Wonk Review An Example of the Facts Education and Spin Behind the Lingering Debate on Obamacare and Health Reform
Friday, January 31, 2014
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Does that learning tactic underlie Obamacare supporter Maggie Mahars approach to the latest Health Wonk Review? Thats what the DMCB thought when it read Maggies posting.
To help the thousands of health orm realists who make up the DMCB readership, Hurricane Maggie repetitively retreads the cost-control talking points from orm architect Peter Orszag, surgeon Golden Boy Atul Gawande and the White House Office of Management and Budget Rest assured, says Maggie, if you selectively counter the DMCBs fiction with facts, youll realize Washington DCs solutions are the right choice.
The DMCB isnt too sure about that.
Maggie doesnt argue health care costs arent rising, only that the increases are less than widely claimed. She credits Obamacare. The Disease Management Care Blog agrees that cost trends are moderating, but it also credits a lackluster economy.
.
Maggie says be of good cheer, because the increased costs are delivering correspondingly better value for the health care dollar. The DMCB says value remains an inexact science that is ill-suited to simplistic nostrums and blunt force laws and regulations. The latest examples of this conundrum include mammograms and annual check ups. There are plenty of others like this.
Maggie points to Massachusettss Atul Gawandes brimming optimism about Massachusetts leading the way with risk and performance contracting as a cost-control panacea. The DMCB awaits the arrival of hard macroeconomic outcomes data that proves the experiment works. It also points out that the Bay States recently passed cost control legislation speaks volumes on what that states leaders really think about the savings-success of Romneycare.
Last but not least, not everyone on the blue side of political spectrum shares Maggies optimism.
By the way, the DMCB has received a cost estimate from the unnamed hospital mentioned above. That institution is the flagship part of a nationally recognized integrated delivery system that is a basis for much of Maggie Mahars enthusiasm. The DMCBs planned procedure coupled with OR charges and an overnight stay will result in charges, prior to discounts and contracted rates, in excess of $100,000.
For those of us with a lingering doubt that our political classs health orm sound-bites, nostrums, talking points and pronouncements will cut through all those inconvenient facts, the DMCB recommends this catchy tune. Youll feel a lot better:
Image from Wikipedia
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