NY Times OpEd: How Medicare Fails the Elderly

by | Oct 21, 2011 | Blog, Learn

Jane Gross, in her piece for the October 15th New York Times, stated eloquently what we at Archimedes/We Can Do Better have been saying for almost six years – Medicare in its current structure needs more than “saving” – it needs transformation...

OHA is Looking for Technically Minded Consumers

by | Oct 19, 2011 | Act, Blog, Learn

Due to passage of SB 204, Tina Edlund, Deputy Director of the Oregon Health Authority, is forming a stakeholder group to meet in November and December (probably no more than 4 meetings, likely 2 hours each) to work with them and a firm that will be offering technical...

Multnomah County Considers Ban on BPA

by | Oct 19, 2011 | Act, Blog, Learn

The Multnomah Board of County Commisioners are considering a ban on Bisphenol A (BPA), proposed by chair Jeff Cogen. BPA is a potentially cancer-causing chemical that is found in some beverage containers like baby bottles and zippy cups. Commissioner Cogen is pushing...

Why Not the Best?

by | Oct 19, 2011 | Blog, Learn

The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System just published a report entitled: Why Not the Best? Results from the National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance. The graphic below shows some of their conclusions, but you can read the...