The Terribly Difficult Things Health Care CEOs Must Do to Make the Big Bucks: Back-to-Back Meetings, Complicated Schedules, Fatiguing Driving?!

On Health Care Renewal, we
have been decrying American health care dysfunction since 2004 (look here).  For
years, the US consistently has had the most expensive health care system
of any developed country.  For that exhorbitant price, it provides at
best medicocre access to and quality of care.

We have long contended that a major reason for health care dysfunction is perverse incentives,

How to Reduce the Conflicts of Interests in Health Care in a Country Whose Leader Has Flagrant, Unconstitutional Conflicts of Interest?

Introduction: Conflicts of Interest in Health Care


Our first post about conflicts of interest appeared on December 22, 2004, and was about "senior NIH scientists [who] were collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars in consulting fees and stock from industry."  We were not the first to be concerned about the problems resulting from financial relationships among health care professionals,

Our Fifteenth Anniversary - Welcome Back to Health Care Renewal

Today is the fifteenth anniversary of Health Care Renewal.

As a reminder of where we began, below is a re-post of our welcome to the blog.

Welcome to HCRENEWAL

Health care around the world is beset by rising costs, declining access,
stagnant quality, and increasingly dissatisfied health care
professionals. Discussions with physicians and other professionals
revealed pervasive concerns

Which Interventions Can Be Paid For: The Explanatory Power of “Prasad’s Law”