The Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team is accustomed to having an impact. In the case of the priest sex abuse scandal the impact was a shakeup in the Catholic Church and the resignation of the archbishop of Boston (not to mention a Pulitzer Prize). Now the team has turned its attention to health care, where the issues are just as important but good and evil are a great deal harder to separate.
Check out the latest Cavalcade of Risk at Managed Care Matters.
The odds that we’ll see major health care reform in 2009 seem to be increasing. PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions surveyed consumers and health care insiders to get their views on health care reform. Among the findings:
I don’t subscribe to The New England Journal of Medicine, but luckily for me a good number of the general interest articles are offered online for free. The November 13 issue includes several free perspectives on the future of primary care. There are interesting pieces about payment reform and the medical home but I was most intrigued by a detail in the perspective on Lessons from the U.K. by Martin Roland:
Yesterday’s Boston Globe Ideas section led off with a typically cheery piece. (See Depression 2009: What would it look like?) The subtitle: