Friday I inadvertently left out two excellent posts from long time contributors Hank Stern and Roy Poses Md PhD.
My apologies to these gentlemen, and here’s a very brief UPDATE – with their contributions.
Hank Stern, contributed a post about the Defense Base Act, and a contractor’s…challenges when encountering the Act…DBA is kinda like workers comp without the unlimited benefits…and this poor soul suffered mightily. Hank delves into the details as to how this could happen. The brief answer – all too easily.
Healthcare in the occupational arena is often the forgotten red-headed stepchild of the healthcare world, yet it is a significant issue for both the workers who sustain what can be life altering workplace injuries and employers who bear the full cost burden for medical care and wage replacement. At Workers’ Comp Insider, Tom Lynch offers a primer of best practices in his Eight Steps To Controlling Workers’ Compensation Costs part 1, part 2 and part 3.
Roy Poses provided a different perspective on health care, asking why people with no healthcare background are running health care delivery organizations.
from Roy’s post…
I believe that managerialism in a health care context (leadership of health care organizations by people with only management training, and without any knowledge, understanding or experience in health care, based only on management dogma) is one of the major causes of health care dysfunction. Here is a great example of a managerialist hospital CEO who also seemed to demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect, that people who lack ability are likely unaware of this lack…To belabor the obvious, true health care reform requires health care leadership that understands health care and upholds its professional values.
An interesting post to juxtapose comes fromJason Shafrin, who asks “Does more spending improve outcomes?”
A number of studies have claimed that increasing health expenditures may result in no better, or even worse patient outcomes. The Healthcare Economist revisits the topic looking at the case of neonatal ward spending and patient outcomes in the UK.
