Who needs bank branches when we have ATMs — and who needs pharmacies when we have “Automated Medication Dispensers”?
Watch it and weep.

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Scott Burns is one of the best-read personal finance writers in the United States. I recently came across some thoughts on healthcare Scott shared at AssetBuilder.com, an investment site. Scott is chief investment strategist for AssetBuilder, a Registered Investment Advisor.
Scott received the following opinion/query from one of his readers:
I believe we should have […]

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Health 2.0 - Apps & Trends to Watch (RWW)
‘Local’ Surprisingly Prominent at Health 2.0 (The Local Onliner)
Spring View of Health 2.0, with a Diabetes Twist (Diabetes Mine)
Six Health 2.0 firms reinvent doctor-patient ties (Healthcare Economist)

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I’m just back from San Diego, where Matthew Holt’s second Health 2.0 conference finished up on Tuesday evening. Some of the things I found interesting about the conference:

There weren’t many doctors there. There were a few — some of them, like a brilliant young visionary named Dr. Jay Parkinson, doing remarkable things. […]

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And he says the key is transparency in pricing and quality — exactly the message of the Health 2.0 movement.

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From CNBC (with some noisy accompaniment by Ben Harper):

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The report from the medical examiner is in: Heath Ledger died from the “the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine.” The brand names for the drugs that were in Ledger’s system are OxyContin, Valium, Xanax, Restoril, Unisom and Hydrocodone.
To be clear, Ledger didn’t die from an overdose of prescription […]

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This ad was used in 1994 to kill Hillary Clinton’s universal healthcare plan through scare tactics and misinformation:

As Ezra Klein points out, Obama is taking a similar approach in bashing Hillary’s much watered-down plan of 2007 — just from the other direction:

The only thing that’s changed in healthcare politics over the past 13 years, it […]

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Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya are the chief organizers of the Health 2.0 Connecting Consumers and Providers conference, which will take place March 3-4 in San Diego. Matthew is a healthcare strategist and author of perhaps the industry’s most influential blog, The Health Care Blog. Indu is an MD and founder of […]

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Hint: It’s not because it’s a great system. Read this.

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