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By Michael McCarthy on January 21st, 2010
Higher-dose pain prescriptions linked to higher overdose risk
Patients on highest doses were nine times more likely to overdose than those on lowest doses
Category: Group Health Cooperative
By admin on August 18th, 2009
Health Co-ops Touted as Alternative to Public Plan
Seattle’s Group Health Cooperative seen as potential model for health reform.
By admin on July 13th, 2009
Views: Blue Dogs Should Look Beyond Cost Containment for Progress on Health Care
By Jonathan Cohn
July 13, 2009
This column is a collaboration between KHN and The New Republic.
Negotiations over health care reform screeched to a halt late last week when 40 centrist Democrats–members of the House Blue Dog Coalition–signed a letter saying they could not support the House’s emerging legislation without significant changes.
Their major complaint? They said the [...]
By admin on July 13th, 2009
Health in the news – July 13
Money and medicine
KUOW looks at the salaries of Seattle’s top docs and charity care Washington non-profit hospitals give
John Ryan, a reporter for Seattle’s Public Radio affiliate KUOW, looked at how much Seattle-area hospitals, most of which enjoy the tax benefits of non-profit status, pay their top officials and how much charity care they provide.
Salaries, Ryan [...]
By admin on July 07th, 2009
Health stories in the news – July 7th
New York Times profiles Seattle’s Group Health Cooperative
Opponents to a public health insurance plan are proposing private-sector insurance cooperatives as an alternative, and they are pointing to Seattle’s Group Health Cooperative as an example of what such cooperatives can accomplish, writes New York Times reporter Kevin Sack in today’s issue of the paper.
Group Health has [...]
By admin on June 15th, 2009
Checking In With Group Health Cooperative’s Pam MacEwan
By Jenny Gold of Kaiser Health News
Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., recently introduced the idea of non-profit insurance cooperatives as an alternative to a government-sponsored public insurance option in Democratic proposals to overhaul the nation’s health care system.
Many Republicans and health insurers oppose the idea of a government-run approach, charging that it will be an unfair [...]
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