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• Is Don Berwick The One?

  The Blogosphere Rumor Factory is heating up with reports that Don Berwick, the world’s most prominent advocate for healthcare quality and safety, will be the next administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). (Take this with Read More... Posted Fri, Mar 26 2010 9:02 PM by Bob Wachter | 5 Comments Filed under: Quality Improvement, Pay-for-performance, Transparency and Reporting, Efficiency, Patient Safety/Medical Errors, Health Policy, Media/Press Coverage

• Healthcare Rationing: Why Stalin Had it Right

  Princeton ethicist Peter Singer’s article in this week’s NY Times Sunday Magazine is creating lots of buzz. It is a classic utilitarian description of the case for rationing – QALYs and all – and a plea for a mature national dialogue about the dreaded Read More... Posted Sat, Jul 18 2009 11:26 PM by Bob Wachter | 13 Comments Filed under: Transparency and Reporting, Efficiency, Health Policy, Media/Press Coverage

• Budget Director Orszag Takes Gawande's Baton and Brings It Home

  Thanks to Brad Flansbaum for pointing me to Peter Orszag's blog on Atul Gawande's article (the subject of my previous post) on McAllen, Texas's staggering healthcare costs. I'm not sure what's more astonishing: the fact that Orszag read the Gawande New Read More... Posted Tue, Jun 09 2009 2:47 AM by Bob Wachter | 6 Comments Filed under: Transparency and Reporting, Efficiency, Health Policy, Media/Press Coverage

• A Remarkable Interview: Obama on Healthcare

  I hope you had a chance to read David Leonhardt’s interview with President Obama in last Sunday’s NY Times Magazine. The feel was that of hanging out with two really smart friends discussing the issues of the day over beers. What a treat! In addition Read More... Posted Sun, May 10 2009 6:57 PM by Bob Wachter | 7 Comments Filed under: Quality Improvement, Transparency and Reporting, Quality Measurement, Efficiency, Information Technology, Health Policy, Media/Press Coverage, Medical Ethics