Sunday, July 8, 2012

Employers have clout to reduce health costs - Commercial Appeal


Businesses get results by working directly with doctors, hospitals to change care delivery and payment
Published: July 08, 2012
by Dr. Manoj Jain
I once thought that only the federal government in Washington could effect changes that would impact the cost of health care in the United States, especially with so much attention on the recent Supreme Court decision on the 2010 health care reform law. But now I think differently. Read More

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Judging 'Obamacare' depends on your situation Put politics aside and just focus on facts - Commercial Appeal


Published: July 01, 2012
by Dr. Manoj Jain

On the day the U.S. Supreme Court delivered its historic decision on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka Obamacare, I was rounding on my hospital patients: a man on the ventilator with pneumonia who had private insurance, one elderly woman with abdominal pain going for gall bladder surgery on Medicare, and one middle aged obese woman with a skin infection without any health insurance. Read More