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Hiding In Plain Sight: Using Medicare To Solve The ‘Public Option’ Conundrum

By JEFF GOLDSMITH As Senate and House Committee versions of health reform move toward unified legislation and floor votes, the most complex political challenge is how to resolve the “public option” controversy. While one would have thought weightier issues such...
October 21, 2009 in Jeff Goldsmith, Medicare, Public Option, Reform | Permalink | Comments (53)

Capitol Shortage: Can the Two Democratic Parties Get It Together on Health Reform?

By JEFF GOLDSMITH As an exceptionally grumpy American summer grinds to a conclusion, it is apparent that only a bipartisan solution will enable Congress and the Obama Administration to complete health reform. No, we’re not talking about co-operating with the...
September 27, 2009 in Jeff Goldsmith, Reform | Permalink | Comments (29)

A Wild Pitch: HR3200 Brushes Back Health Reform

By JEFF GOLDSMITH On May 12, the flame throwing Chicago White Sox pitcher Bobby Jenks was fined for throwing behind an opposing player, Texas Rangers second baseman, Ian Kinsler. When Jenks, who can throw a 102 MPH fastball, was asked...
July 20, 2009 in Congress, Economics, Hospitals, Jeff Goldsmith, Medicaid, Medicare, Physicians, Policy/Politics, Reform | Permalink | Comments (24)

No Country for Old Men

By JEFF GOLDSMITH As we enter summer, the health reform process is moving into its Newtonian phase: irresistible forces meeting immovable objects. In both health cost and access, the trend is not our friend. There is ample evidence not only...
July 6, 2009 in Jeff Goldsmith, Marketplace, Medicare, Obama administration, Policy/Politics, Reform, The Industry | Permalink | Comments (57)

Commentology

Futurist Jeff Goldsmith's analysis of issues that could cause problems for any health reform effort that eventually emerges from the foodfight in Washington this summer provoked a wide range of reader replies. ("No Country For Old Men") Goldsmith wrote in...
July 2, 2009 in AMA, Commentology, Electronic Medical Records, Jeff Goldsmith, Malpractice, Physicians, Reader Mail, Robert Laszewski, Unions | Permalink | Comments (9)

Open Wide: Here comes the change you thought would never happen

By Jeff Goldsmith The morning after the election, I posted a speculative blog in Health Affairs on three possible scenarios for President-elect Obama’s implementing health reform: folding it into a bold, ambitious emergency legislative package (Complete the New Deal), carving...
November 25, 2008 in Economics, Election 08, Jeff Goldsmith, Marketplace, Obama, Obama administration, Policy, Policy/Politics, The Industry | Permalink | Comments (22)

Health Reform Prospects Fade as Presidential Campaign Enters Homestretch

By Jeff Goldsmith Jeff Goldsmith is President of Health Futures, Inc, and a professor of public health sciences at the University of Virginia. As presidential aspirants geared up their issue analyses last fall, health reform ranked as the number one...
August 27, 2008 in Jeff Goldsmith, Policy, Policy/Politics | Permalink | Comments (13)