Archive for April 9th, 2009

Yesterday, April 8, 2009, President Obama signed an executive order formally creating a new White House Office of Health Reform.
The Washington Post provide additional information, including the complete text of the Executive Order and that former Clinton administration official, Nancy-Ann DeParle (White House bio) will oversee the office.

How do Americans ration health care?
It’s by cost, as well as the number of uninsured.
Ezra Klein actually has a pretty balanced take on health care rationing issue. He says that what’s happening Stateside is equally as dismal as the waiting times both in Canada and the UK, calling each system opposite ends of “awful [...]

Im back in Seattle from the windy (and somewhat sleety) city.  Now that Ive had a reasonable nights sleep, Ill share some perspectives on the HIMSS 2009 conference in Chicago.
There were two football-sized exhibit halls of stuff to see.  I wont claim to have seen it all since the Microsoft team kept me [...]


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