What I’m Reading: The New York Times

 

If this is how much trouble I have navigating a simple refilling of my medication, I don’t know how the rest of America does it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/upshot/trapped-in-the-system-a-sick-doctors-story.html

 

 

What I’m Reading: The New York Times

 

Disney was constantly reinventing his company, a practice that drove his more business-minded brother crazy but ultimately helped his studio thrive.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/business/media/walt-disney-a-visionary-who-was-crazy-like-a-mouse.html

 

 

What I’m Reading: Becker's Hospital Review

 

The economic impact of a rural community hospital closure is bigger than the sum of the statistical parts. Towns die. People die. Family owned farms and businesses disintegrate. Families disintegrate. Call it the trickle down effect.

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/30-rural-hospitals-in-2-states-at-risk-of-closing.html

 

 

 

 

What I’m Reading: The New York Times

 

Australia and Switzerland have found ways to avoid ridiculously high prices while still protecting profits and incentives.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/09/opinion/the-solution-to-drug-prices.html

 

 

What I’m Reading: Becker's Hospital Review

You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.

Abraham Lincoln

 

Perhaps our politicians will be forced to catch up to our reality. We can follow the money. Why can't they?

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/drug-costs-are-bigger-concern-for-republican-voters-than-aca-repeal-poll-finds.html

 

 

What I’m Reading: Becker's Hospital Review

 

What is wrong with this picture? Hospitals are filing bankruptcy, laying off employees and struggling to keep up with new regulations and reduced reimbursement and the insurance industry and pharmaceutical industry are making record profits.

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/payer-issues/how-the-big-5-insurers-fared-in-q2.html

 

 

What I’m Reading: USA Today

 

 
Seven million fewer uninsured, study says.

http://usat.ly/1To5iDu