A Massachusetts Surgeon Weighs in on the Meaning of Scott Brown’s Senate Victory: Post 81
Warning to readers: This post, like a previous post, Gotcha: A surgeon dissects patient-centered care, contains more rant than reason. Those who feel passionately that Congress is doing a great job dealing with the people’s healthcare should look elsewhere for confirmation of their views. In An Interview with Stuart Altman, this distinguished healthcare economist mentioned Altman’s Law, that [...]
Tags: Atul Gawande, collaboration in healthcare, David Harlow, healthcare reform, Lee Kaiser, Scott Brown, Stuart Altman
An Interview with Stuart H. Altman
Bio:Stuart H. Altman is the Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy at Brandeis University. From 2000-2002 he was Co-Chair for the Legislative Health Care Task Force for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is Chair of The Council on Health Care Economics and Policy, a private non-partisan group whose mission is to analyze important [...]
Tags: collaboration in healthcare, global billing, healthcare economics, improving physician-hospital relations, physician-hospital communication, physician-hospital relations, Stuart Altman, The Massachusetts Health Plan, Value-based purchasing


