Several noteworthy healthcare issues saw attention the week of Feb. In his guest presentation, Dr. Award recipient for February. The Speak-up!
Award celebrates individuals or …. The MHA Keystone Center is launching an infection control quality improvement cohort, providing high-touch technical assistance to ten long-term care facilities. Healthcare continues to be the leading private-sector employer in Michigan. Our latest Economic Impact of Healthcare in Michigan report shows healthcare provided nearly , direct jobs in Michigan in , with roughly , of those jobs in hospitals. Is health insurance reform the key to affordability and lower costs?
For most elected officials in Congress and state legislatures, Medicare and Medicaid are insurance programs that consume a large and growing piece of public funding, squeezing out other areas of need.
For virtually all hospitals, physicians, ancillary and long-term care providers, insurance is still the unwelcome front door through which all must go to get paid but their administrative hassles and low reimbursement rates are ruining the system for everyone.
And large majorities in each of these groups are unhappy with insurers for a myriad of reasons well-documented in trade publications and polling. The blame and shame game to which insiders in healthcare are addicted is a zero-sum game: blaming any single sector for the cumulative deficiencies in affordability and costs is misleading and does not serve the greater good.
