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Putting the 'Insurance' Back in Health Insurance

5/20/2012 11:55 PM

We understand that it would make no sense to buy auto insurance after we've already crashed our car. We appreciate that it would be strange to buy homeowner's insurance after our house has already burned down. And yet, when it comes to health coverage, many of us think that it makes perfect sense to wait until we're sick to buy health insurance. If...Read More

The 15 Minute Physical: Dr. Oz Showcases Power Of Electronic Health Records

5/19/2012 6:08 PM

At a taping of the Dr. Oz Show on Saturday, Dr. Mehmet Oz and 75 laptop-wielding medical students entered clinical information on 1,000 patients into an electronic health record, courtesy of Practice Fusion, a provider of free web-based EHRs. The location was 's School of Medicine. Combing for indicators of heart disease and diabetes, they .....Read More

What Should Congress Do after the Supreme Court Decision on Obamacare?

5/19/2012 11:24 AM

There's been a bit of a flap in the media this week about what House Republicans are planning to do regarding health care reform once the Supreme Court rules on Obamacare. But the back-and-forth leaves unanswered an important question: given all of the possible SCOTUS scenarios, what should Congress do to optimize the outcome for people with a stak...Read More

Car of the Week: 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL 550

5/18/2012 4:19 PM

?? The Car: 2013??Mercedes-Benz SL 550 Where I drove it: Downtown , Pasadena, and the Hollywood Hills. First Impressions: ??It was a dramatic moment when the valet pulled up in the creamy-white 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL550 ??? and I soaked it up.??Let me set the scene:??The Standard Los Angeles??valet lot is just steps away from the .....Read More

Obamacare Activists Prep to be 'Either Celebratory or Agitational' about Supreme Court Decision

5/18/2012 7:13 AM

BuzzFeed has obtained a three-page memo from Health Care for America Now, an umbrella group run by labor unions and MoveOn.org. The memo details how the organization and other White House allies plan to adopt alternate messages, depending on whether or not the Affordable Care Act is upheld by the Supreme Court. "Note that many of these [resources] ...Read More

Medicare Advantage Reform: Detaching Pay from Performance

5/17/2012 3:09 PM

Medicare Advantage (MA) is the "private option" within Medicare. Private health insurers are paid a fixed monthly fee to provide at least the same minimum health benefits to their enrollees as "traditional" fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare, but they also have the ability to offer coordinated care, disease management, phone consultations, and other se...Read More

Are House Republicans Caving in on Repealing Obamacare? Doubtful.

5/17/2012 9:10 AM

Politico is reporting that House Republicans are preparing for the possibility that the Supreme Court upholds the law by drafting new legislation. "When the court rules, we'll be ready," House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) told the House Republican Conference on Wednesday. But what's surprising about alleged GOP plans is that they involve preserv...Read More

Chrysler's Kumbaya King

5/16/2012 5:34 PM

What do the Dalai Lama, Sean Penn, Eminem and Clint Eastwood have in common? Not much, except for controversial car marketer Olivier Francois...Read More

James Beard Awards: Mercedes-Benz Next Best New Restaurant, Daniel Humm Outstanding Chef

5/16/2012 9:15 AM

For foodies, it's the equivalent of the Oscars. Last week,??The James Beard Foundation??held its annual awards show at Lincoln Center. Mercedes-Benz presented the Best New Restaurant Award to??Grant Achatz??of??Next??in??Chicago.????Next??opened in 2011. You can't make a reservation, but you can buy a ticket.??The??New York??Times writes, "It is no...Read More

Why GM Yanked Its Facebook Ads On Eve Of IPO

5/15/2012 4:54 PM

A lot of people are wondering why decided to stop advertising on Facebook just three days before the social media site?s widely anticipated stock offering. After all, it doesn?t look very good to potential investors when the nation?s third largest advertiser says your site isn?t an effective way to reach customers. Facebook has been all .....Read More

GM Says Facebook Ads Don't Work, Pulls $10 Billion Account

5/15/2012 2:36 PM

Just days before Facebook?s historic stock offering, said it plans to stop advertising on the social media site, concluding that its paid ads don?t have a big impact on consumers. GM spends about $40 million a year on Facebook marketing, according to the Journal, about $10 million of which is for paid advertisements. It will .....Read More

GM Says Facebook Ads Don't Work, Pulls $10 Million Account

5/15/2012 2:36 PM

Former Ford CEO Red Poling is dead at 86

5/15/2012 12:17 PM

Harold A. ?Red? Poling, former chairman and chief executive of , died over the weekend in California. He was 86. Poling, who retired in 1994, was instrumental in turning around Ford?s North American operations in the early 1980s when Japanese competitors were clobbering domestic carmakers. Poling focused on cutting costs and restoring quality, and ...Read More

On Heels Of Record Health IT Funding, Castlight Health Recruits Former Medco Executive

5/15/2012 8:04 AM

Founded only four years ago, Castlight is fast establishing itself as the leader in a field rarely associated with health care: cost transparency. The , Calif.-based company offers employees of self-insured companies the ability to compare medical procedures based on price and quality, which vary widely within the same geographical area. Earlier th...Read More

Drug Companies Are Testing Health Technology

5/15/2012 8:02 AM

Drug companies are dipping into health technology???or at least skimming the surface. is a new player at this week's 2.0 matchmaking conference which seeks to pair health technology start-ups with deep-pocketed partners. The pharma company, which is a sponsor, says it is "interested in companies pursuing innovation/opportunities related to the digi...Read More

Buy What You Love: The Art of Michael and Susan Hort

5/14/2012 11:02 AM

The walls of art collectors Susan and Michael Hort's 10,000 square-foot downtown?? apartment showcase hundreds of contemporary paintings, sculptures, video installations and photographs. The work on display is a small sample of their collection that contains well over 3,000 works. I've visited the private collection twice this spring ??? once for t...Read More

How Obamacare Tackled the Pitfalls of Employer-Sponsored Insurance Reform

5/14/2012 6:35 AM

Last weekend, I explained why the discriminatory tax treatment of employer-sponsored insurance is the original sin behind America's exceedingly expensive health-care system. I also described why reforming this tax break is politically difficult, because lots of industry stakeholders have an economic interest in the status quo. Today, I'll leave tho...Read More

How Employer-Sponsored Insurance Drives Up Health Costs

5/12/2012 11:05 AM

A new study in Health Affairs is attracting attention for its depiction of how powerful hospitals are extracting "steep payment increases" from insurers. But what the study really tells us is how much the exceptional cost of American health insurance is caused by our system's original sin: the fact that, due to a quirk in the federal tax code, most...Read More

Will Buying Health Insurance Across State Lines Reduce Costs?

5/11/2012 10:52 AM

During the debate over Obamacare, Republicans have consistently promoted an alternative approach that involved allowing individuals to purchase health insurance across state lines. Interstate insurance purchasing was the second item in the health care section of the GOP's 2010 "Pledge to America," right after tort reform. It's also a part of Mitt R...Read More

Porsche Bike RS

5/11/2012 8:56 AM

? Ride in N??rburgring??style this spring. Porsche has produced two new bicycles ??? the Porsche S and the Porsche RS. Both bikes are part of it's Porsche Design Driver's Selection. The bikes are equipped with ??Magura hydraulic disc brakes. Carbon fiber is used on the RS in ??the frame, forks, handle bars, brake levers, stem .....Read More

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