Business
How Many Jobs Does ObamaCare Kill?
(Wall Street Journal) – Democrats loudly complain that people will lose health insurance if the Affordable Care Act is repealed. They never mention those who lose jobs because the ACA remains. […]
obamacare
Medical Device Tax
Trump And Healthcare: Medical Technology Companies’ Hiring Trends As GOP Pushes Tax Repeal
IBT – As medical technology companies have pressed to permanently repeal Obamacare’s medical device tax, proponents of repeal have argued that getting rid of the tax will prompt job growth. […]
Joint Replacement
New Analysis: Trumpcare May Cut Ortho Volumes 1.2%
Orthopedics This Week – One of Wall Street’s top research groups has concluded that the May 4 passage of the AHCA, if ultimately signed into law by President Trump, would likely reduce orthopedic procedure volumes 0.7% in 2018 and, cumulatively, cut overall volumes 1.2% in 2026. […]
Health Care
Five Principles for the Future of Healthcare
Medscape – Employing these five principles would get us a lot farther along toward the healthcare we need than would politics. That is where we will end up if we focus on what Hippocrates said over 2400 years ago: “The regimen I adopt shall be for the benefit of my patients according to my ability and judgment, and not for their hurt or for wrong.” […]
Health Care
Micro-Hospitals Provide Health Care Closer to Home
U.S. News – Small scale inpatient facilities, known in the industry as micro-hospitals, are popping up across the country to offer medical care in underserved communities and provide a local alternative to the potentially long waits for emergency care at major hospitals. […]
Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR)
The top medtech stories of early 2017
The new Trump administration and Republican Congress – and all the accompanying change and uncertainty – is the major story for the medical device industry. […]