Jason has done a great job with the Health Wonk Review over at the Healthcare Economist. The Colorado Health Insurance Insider article about possible Medicare reform is featured in the HWR this week.

Workers Comp Insider has a good article about providing wellness care through workers comp programs. Perhaps if workers comp carriers were to focus on preventive care for employees, they would see a reduction in job-related injuries as time goes by. Simple things like weight-reduction and programs designed to improve core strength could probably go a long way towards warding off claims, since healthy bodies are less prone to injury, and tend to heal faster than unhealthy bodies.

And there’s a great article from Code Blue Now about the French health care system as it relates to doctors’ expenses and salaries. Let’s imagine how it would be if docs in the US didn’t graduate with such high student loan debts, and if we didn’t have such a crazy malpractice system, and if our health care system weren’t so convoluted with thousands of different health insurance companies, networks, billing systems, coding procedures, etc. Maybe then we could pay our doctors lower salaries and still provide health care for a lot more people than we currently do. Good food for thought.