The Cream of Health Care Posts

This week, over at Disease Management Care
Blog
Jaan Sidorov
hosts Honk Wonk Review, a compendium of the best
health care posts of the past two weeks. Sidorov offers a tasty buffet, with
links to all of the posts.

 Just a few highlights:

At Health Access
Anthony Wright  is on the news as he  rails against private insurers who explicitly factor in gender (care to guess if males pay
more or less?) and a past history of a caesarian section in their health insurance pricin . (Elizabeth
Edwards
also weighs in on this topic here.)

On InsureBlog, H.G. Stern reviews Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s pessimistic economic assessment of
health care
. “It costs a lot. It’s going to cost more. Information tech
doesn’t hold a candle to growing demand paired with . . . ever pricier treatment options. And we
are all going to pay for it.”

Julie Ferguson, of Worker’s Comp Insider fame, posts about I.T.
behemoth Google’s foray into the electronic medical-personal-health
record
with links summarizing both the benefits and the problems.

To peruse the full
menu
go directly to Disease
Management Care Blog.

2 thoughts on “The Cream of Health Care Posts

  1. Paging Dr Bernanke!

    IB regulars are familiar with our anthem: Health insurance costs increase primarily because health care costs increase. To hear the Chairman of the Federal Reserve esentially endorse that position is indeed wonderful, but we won’t let it get to our h…

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