What I’m Reading: Becker's Hospital Review

I am putting the bad stuff all in one email so all this water will clear the slate for a new beginning in 2016.

 

Happy New Year.

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/philadelphia-hospital-to-close-up-to-675-workers-may-be-laid-off.html

 

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/cms-to-expand-rac-program-to-medicare-advantage-6-things-to-know.html

 

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/hospital-cfos-top-concerns-for-2016.html

 

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/hospitals-face-payment-cuts-at-outpatient-sites-under-budget-deal-10-things-to-know.html

 

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/new-york-hospital-to-close-this-week.html

 

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/plan-to-close-ohio-hospital-gets-go-ahead-after-11-months-of-debate.html

 

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/dallas-hospital-closes-after-failing-to-make-payroll.html

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/a-state-by-state-breakdown-of-57-rural-hospital-closures.html

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/31-mississippi-hospitals-at-risk-of-closing.html

 

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/10-hospital-bankruptcies-so-far-in-2015-september15.html

 

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/9-hospital-closures-so-far-in-2015.html

 

 

 

What I’m Reading: The New York Times

 

The Experts Were Wrong About the Best Places for Better and Cheaper Health Care

 

http://nyti.ms/223u0ec

 

What I'm Reading: The New York Times

 

Facilities for older adults are overwhelmed and unprepared for increasing numbers of very heavy residents.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/health/rising-obesity-rates-put-strain-on-nursing-homes.html

What I’m Reading: The New York Times

For many consumers, the sticker shock is coming not on the front end, when they purchase Affordable Care Act plans, but when they get sick and are hit by sky-high deductibles.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/us/politics/many-say-high-deductibles-make-their-health-law-insurance-all-but-useless.html

 

 

 

 

What I’m Reading: The Kansas City Star

 

Anyone else angered by the continued "ruse" of characterizing the working poor in this country as the "refusing to work" poor?

 

Gov. Sam Brownback’s missive on Medicaid expansion was wrong, cruel and divisive

 

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