Administrative Waste

Medicare Essential

Medicare Essential: An Option To Promote Better Care And Curb Spending Growth

Karen Davis, Cathy Schoen, and Stuart Guterman

Why Health Care Costs So Much

Health Care
The Reason Health Care Is So Expensive: Insurance Companies
By Jeffrey Pfeffer
April 10, 2013

Cost Control in a Parallel Universe

Excerpt from a Research Letter published 10/29/12 on-line by Archives of Internal Medicine (www.archinternmed.com) by Drs.

Medicare and the Meaningless Market Mantra

Reuters (via Politico) is reporting about possible 'new' proposals concerning Medicare from the Obama Administration (

Administrative Costs Will Choke Federal Health Care

Both major political parties are on record proposing or implementing health programs/policies which will increase the already ridiculous administrative costs in American health care delivery.

Code Creep

The Washington Post has an article about an urgent problem related to Medicare billing: Code Creep (

The Affordable Care Act: The Deeper Jungle

The Health Affairs Blog contained the following from Timothy Jost (http://healt