Barack Obama promised us radical health care reform. Understandably the loss of Tom Daschle, who was indeed uniquely well qualified to push health care legislation, has damaged the progress of potential improvement to our nation's health care. But the loss of Daschle is far from the only problem.

Faced with a barrage of pressing issues, the Obama administration has placed health-care reform high on its agenda. The timing bodes well for change, according to Aaron E. Carroll, M.D., director of the Indiana University Center for Health Policy and Professionalism, associate professor of pediatrics at the IU School of Medicine and a pediatrician at Riley Hospital for Children.

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has praised the commitment to a 21st century healthcare service and the introduction of more choice for patients through the signing of a new NHS Constitution.

The RAND Corporation today launched an online tool to provide policymakers and interested parties with a unique way of understanding and evaluating the effects and unintended consequences of health care reform proposals certain to be introduced in the new 111th Congress and beyond.

With health reform high on the agenda of the incoming Congress and President, a new analysis of legislative proposals—including the plans of President-elect Barack Obama and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT)—shows that several proposals already put forth could substantially reduce the number of uninsured Americans, and would either reduce health care spending or add only modestly to annual health care expenditures.

My grad school application said this had to be originally written for the application, but it didn't say I couldn't present it elsewhere once it was finished. The most of the health care reform idea is 15 years old (from when the Clintons were trying to get their health care reform plan developed and passed) but putting it all down on paper (or pixels) is new.

Dailykos has featured an analysis that is title "Cato: GOP Survival Depends On Blocking Health Care Reform."

The point of health insurance market reform worthy of the name is twofold: to make markets more efficient and more fair for all, not just for some, and to transition the business model of insurers away from risk selection and toward care coordination and high value care.

When you're home sick with a non-fatal strain of the hantavirus, there's nothing quite as comforting as watching a Senate Budget Committee hearing on the Economic Outlook and Options for Stimulus.

Doing nothing may be OK sometimes, but in health care it's not helpful anymore. Doing nothing is not an option when millions of people are without health insurance coverage.

Moody's, the credit rating agency, offers their post-election impressions in their special comment, "U.S. Healthcare Industry: Credit Implications of the U.S. Election."

Two years after the implementation of a health care reform law aimed at providing health coverage for nearly all Massachusetts residents, public support for the law remains high. According to a new poll by the Harvard School of Public Health and the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, over two-thirds (69%) of Massachusetts residents support the law.