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Our success in bringing health care costs under control ultimately depends on whether Washington can summon the political will to take on and reform a second, even more powerful industry: the food industry.

Medical experts say the incidence of DVT followed by pulmonary embolism, which is fatal about 30% of the time, is increasing in the hospital. That's because many patients are older, more obese, and are undergoing more complicated and invasive surgeries.

Health reformers always smash up against two unpalatable truths. We are all going to die. And the demand for interventions that might postpone that day far outstrips the supply.

A wasteful insurance system; distorted incentives; a bias toward treatment; moral hazard; hidden costs and a lack of transparency; curbed competition; service to the wrong customer. These are the problems at the foundation of our health-care system, resulting in a slow rot and requiring more and more money just to keep the system from collapsing.

If a new drug were as effective at saving lives as Peter Pronovost’s checklist, there would be a nationwide marketing campaign urging doctors to use it.

This is not the time to get incremental. It’s the time to get fundamental. Reform the incentives. Make consumers accountable for spending. Make price information transparent. Reward health care, not health services.

A group of experts who care for the terminally ill claim that some patients are being wrongly judged as close to death.

Cisco’s chairman and chief executive is stretching his company in all directions. Can it hold together?

My question is for those that do web development for a similar audience; where do you look for potential clients, RFPs etc?

When you make something you make something else. Find it, package it, and sell it. There’s money to be made everywhere.