Sun.May 06, 2018

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Universal Health Care and Financial Inclusion – Not Mutually Exclusive

Health Populi

Two weeks in a row, The Economist , the news magazine headquartered in London, included two special reports stapled into the middle of the magazines. Universal health care was covered in a section on 28 April 2018, and coverage on financial inclusion was bundled into the 5th May edition. While The Economist’s editors may not have intended for these two reports to reinforce each other, my lens on health and healthcare immediately, and appreciatively, connected the dots between healthcare

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Paying for value. I’m overwhelmed. Please read this.

Society for Participatory Medicine

As you may know from previous posts, I sit as a patient/caregiver stakeholder on a Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) technical expert panel (TEP) about Quality Measurement Development: Supporting Efficiency and Innovation in the Process of Developing CMS Quality Measures. Jeesh! What a mouthful! In English, for me, this means, if Medicare is going to pay for value in health services, what is value?