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Michael Doring Connelly


Lack of investment in primary care decline hurts us all
The Milbank Memorial Fund is a wealth of information on US primary care. In particular, they have completed numerous studies on the...
Michael Connelly
Apr 131 min read
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Healthcare reform deserves our focus
This Wall Street Journal article powerfully portrays how trust has declined in healthcare. This sad outcome is the consequence of the...
Michael Connelly
Apr 131 min read
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ChatGPT understands the benefits of hospice care. Why don't we?
Why isn’t the Medicare hospice benefit more accessible given it improves patient care and saves billions annually for tax payers? We...
Michael Connelly
Apr 132 min read
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Primary care catastrophe
Yet another powerful article demonstrates that Primary Care (PC) in the US is underpaid and facing a massive shortage - creating a...
Michael Connelly
Apr 131 min read
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What could really improve primary care
A recent New England Journal of Medicine article discusses Medicare’s new regulatory efforts to improve primary care physician...
Michael Connelly
Feb 22 min read
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US primary care needs help
The Commonwealth Fund released a study comparing primary care in the United States to other industrialized countries. Primary care needs...
Michael Connelly
Feb 21 min read
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Thoughts on the murder of United Healthcare's CEO
This editorial opinion by the Wall Street Journal regarding the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson misses the point. The...
Michael Connelly
Feb 21 min read
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Connecting the dots on Medicare Advantage plans
Let me briefly connect some dots on the Wall Street Journal’s recent coverage of private Medicare Plans known as Medicare Advantage (MA)...
Michael Connelly
Feb 21 min read
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Who is really cutting Medicare Advantage?
This Wall Street Journal editorial is misguided and directly conflicts with a major investigative report on Medicare Advantage (MA)...
Michael Connelly
Nov 24, 20241 min read
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My health wish list for the next administration
A new health reform movement is on the rise, led by two Stanford surgeons, Casey and Calley Means, and a Johns Hopkins surgeon, Marty...
Michael Connelly
Nov 24, 20242 min read
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Why improving primary care matters
Here's another compelling argument that describes how improving primary care is the key to improving healthcare.
Michael Connelly
Nov 24, 20241 min read
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Abuses made possible by coding
Let me briefly connect some dots on the Wall Street Journal’s (WSJ) recent coverage of private Medicare Plans known as Medicare...
Michael Connelly
Nov 24, 20241 min read
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Meaningfully Reforming Healthcare is Possible
September 16's Wall Street Journal Opinion Comment ( "Blame Friction, Not Fraud, for the Cost of Healthcare" ) by Robert Charrow, the...
Michael Connelly
Sep 22, 20241 min read
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Why end of life care needs to change
Casey Mean’s best selling book Good Energy offers a powerful personal analysis of how healthcare needs to change. The book offers...
Michael Connelly
Sep 14, 20242 min read
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Helpful visits or way to milk the system?
The Wall Street Journal’s investigative report on Medicare Advantage (MA) deftly uncovers little known concerns about how these plans...
Michael Connelly
Sep 14, 20242 min read
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Why there's a shortage of primary care doctors
Two recent articles illustrate how healthcare policy consistently creates barriers to advancing primary care. In the first , Debra L....
Michael Connelly
Sep 14, 20242 min read
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The Problem Isn’t So Much Insurer Vertical Integration as it is the Use of Coding to Measure Risk for Payments
The recent New England Journal of Medicine article on the dangers of private health insurer vertical integration/consolidation raises...
Michael Connelly
Jul 21, 20242 min read
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Coding corruption and the lost billions
This Wall Street Journal article ( Insurers Pocketed $50 Billion From Medicare for Diseases No Doctor Treated ) is exceptionally well...
Michael Connelly
Jul 14, 20242 min read
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What's really driving hospital price increases
The Wall Street Journal article on 6/23/24 titled When Hospital Prices Go Up, Local Economies Take a Hit illustrates a fundamental...
Michael Connelly
Jun 30, 20241 min read
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Thoughts on the battle for healthcare's soul
4sight Health’s recent article by David W. Johnson titled “Site-Neutral Payment and the Battle Healthcare's Soul” raises critical health...
Michael Connelly
Jun 7, 20241 min read
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