Primary-care in China
Outlined in the 2009 China Healthcare Reform Plan as the key emphasis and development area for the next 3 years, the Chinese urban primary healthcare is a rapidly growing market segment and offers vast opportunities to healthcare suppliers and distributors in China Primary healthcare facilities concept, better known as Community Health Centers (CHC) and Community [...]
Dear Dr. Arroyo, just what medicine are you prescribing?
Dear Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, With all due respect, I suffered a dose of confusion after reading an article (see below) in Reuters today, “Philippines imposes price control on some medicines” and I thought I would “write” to you to see if you could help me to understand. MANILA, July 28 (Reuters) – Philippine [...]
What conflicts of interest? Trust me…I’m a doctor.
Ah famous last words; the basis for the prestige of the entire medical profession. The Hippocratic Oath and the promise to put patient first and do no harm. But, how much harm can be done if we treat the patient reasonably well and make a few extra bucks on the side. After all, we all [...]
Healthcare finance: The ultimate moral hazard.
As the United States grapples with the worst financial crisis in decades, with looming fiscal disasters in Medicare and Social Security, the Obama Administration has initiated an aggressive attempt to overhaul the funding mechanisms of the entire U.S. healthcare system. The last time this was attempted at the beginning of the Clinton Administration, the endeavor [...]
