If you’re interested in pursuing a career in the healthcare industry, it is critical to be up to date on current healthcare issues.  To do this we recommend following a variety of healthcare related news sources such as:

• Wall Street Journal Health Blog, http://blogs.wsj.com/health/
• New York Times Economix Blog, http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/
• Kaiser Health News, http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/

Current News

In this section we will periodically post articles that we find interesting or particularly relevant for the Healthcare Club.

Title: Innovations in Delivering Healthcare

Source: Wall Street Journal

Summary: In this report, the WSJ discusses innovations in health-care delivery that touch on a variety of areas—public policy and high technology, hospital procedures and market competition.

Title: CEOs Tally Health-Bill Score

Source: Wall Street Journal

Summary: The drug industry stands to gain in a health-care overhaul by getting tens of millions of newly insured customers, while insurance companies — especially those that cater to the individual market — look like they are in for a tougher time.

Title: Health-Care Reform – How the Bills Stack Up

Source: Washington Post

Summary: A graphic showing how the three bills making their way through Congress compare.

Title: Health Bills in Congress Won’t Fix Doctor Shortage

Source: Kaiser Health News

Summary: Proposed healthcare bills will expand coverage to millions, but do little to ensure there will be enough primary care doctors to meet the surge in demand.

Title: Regional Differences in Costs and Care

Source: New York Times

Summary: Graphic display of the regional differences in Medicare reimbursement, surgery rates, and enrollees.

Title: Still Going, Health-Care Job Growth Continues

Source: WSJ Health Blog

Summary: As jobs continued to disappear around the country last month, the number of health-care jobs kept growing.

Title: Swiss Model for Health Care is Gaining Admirers

Source: New York Times

Summary: An interesting article on incentives and healthcare utilization.  Find out why the Swiss pay more out of pocket for medical care — and less over all.  A good analysis of the article is available here.