This month’s Health Wonk Review provides great insight into where healthcare is headed – and what we need to watch for. Thanks to Health System Ed’s Peggy Salvatore for mining the best of the blogosphere.
A couple of don’t miss posts:
Who Really Needs the Public Option? Trump Country, Trump Country is most in need of a way to bypass the ACA marketplaces entirely. Democrats’ favorite policy option – the public option – would be most valuable in precisely the deep-red areas that went most fervently for Republicans and the President. Get it all here.
And friend and colleague Tom Lynch focuses on workers’ compensation cost control has focused mainly on lowering medical costs, which is almost always an outsourced function. Consequently, many employers have relinquished control over their workers’ comp program, migrating away from best practices that are at the heart of true workers comp cost control. Read the full blog here.
