San Francisco The Affordable Care Act has given health consumers, also known frequently as patients, more significant advances in transparency and information about hospitals and doctors. Medical records are being digitized and becoming accessible. Information is being made public on doctors, exposing some have Medicare mills. It appears the public is getting closer to being …
Tag: Hospital Accountability
Some States Governments Step Up on Hospital Accountability
New Orleans It took a long time before hard questions were asked of churches given the faith so many people have in them, but the process has produced important and powerful results. Modern faith has created a priesthood of doctors and an altar of medicine where hospitals are their high churches. Even as the Affordable …
States Need to Make For-profit Hospitals Accountable for Strapped Families
New Orleans We have been beating the drum regularly here, there, and everywhere around the country about the organizing and campaign “handles” that could allow aggressive and vigilant community and labor based organizations to demand and require more accountability for tax-exempt nonprofit hospitals. We have trumpeted Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa’s late stage amendment to …