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How Person-Centered Is Your Health Care Organization?

How Person-Centered Is Your Health Care Organization?

Debra Ness, David Lansky, Richard Gilfillan, Fran Soistman, and Jay CohenAugust 30, 2016The movement to transform the country's health care delivery system has been underway for several years now, and some moments of truth are approaching.The ultimate success of this monumental effort to improve the way we pay for and deliver care will be measured not only by cost savings, but also by how well payment reform results in better health outcomes and a value-based system that delivers genuinely person-centered care.The Health Care Transformation Task Force—a unique private-sector, multi-stakeholder group whose 42 members represent six of the nation's top 15 health systems, four of the top 25 health insurers, and leading national organizations representing employers and patients and their families—has been at the forefront of helping to accelerate the pace of this transformation.


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Health Care Stocks Are Looking Sick, Charts Say

Health Care Stocks Are Looking Sick, Charts Say




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Ga. Chamber Releases Plans For Expanding Health Care Access

Ga. Chamber Releases Plans For Expanding Health Care Access

A health care task force created by the Georgia Chamber of Commerce released its much-anticipated report on ways the state could expand medical coverage to the uninsured Wednesday, outlining three "game ready" paths for lawmakers to consider this coming legislative session.None of the three plans suggest adopting conventional Medicaid expansion as called for under the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.States that have taken this route simply expanded eligibility for Medicaid, the federal health program for the poor and disabled, to all individuals whose income falls at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty line, or about $16,000.


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Health Care Is A Right, Not A Business

Health Care Is A Right, Not A Business

Jim Young / ReutersFinancial columnist Megan McArdle recently wrote a column entitled "Healthcare Is a Business, Not a Right."She was responding to a tweet from financial writer Helaine Olen, which she quotes as:"The health of Americans should not be a profit center.Health care is a right.