All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Healthcare Services

Mini clinics will continue to operate in retail establishments for the forseeable future.  They have raised several concerns, so the company that addresses these concerns while providing the convenience will be rewarded with above average market share.

Not surprisingly the BLues are cutting reimbursement to physicians yet their rates continue to rise and their employee compensation continues to rise. It is time for employeers to demand that the highly paid executives of the Blues justify their excessive salaries and efficiencies of the Blues be fixed....

public traded company tend to stabilise or increase share price by push the revenue or profit. Community's bid of $54 per share while two other private equity groups bid for $50.25 per share, over $3.75 per share. Community's acquisition by refinancing involving a $7.22 billion credit facility and $3.02...

There is a simple rule of economics. If product A costs $10 to make and sells for $15, the profit is $5. If you outsource your manufacturing to China and get the cost to $5, you make $10. The goal of any for profit business is to make money, and the only way to do that is to cut costs or increase revenue....

CVS Style Nurse Practitioner Treatment Centers might be filling a real need.  Pharmacies sometimes function as a first triage center for medical products.

I own a small Family Practice in Stone Harbor, NJ.  Currently my practice consists of approximately 40% Medicare patients.  If the proposed decreases in physician reimbursement occur, I may need to stop taking any new Medicare patients.  This will create more difficulty in access to care...

California could break the national logjam over health care reform this fall. If California is successful, it will reaffirm the same template Massachusetts used for its reform last year and provide significant credibility for the leading Democratic presidential candidates who have proposals of their...

- Canada has had a problem with a shortage of doctors in rural,   escpecially northern, areas for decades - several effective steps to solve this problem have been implemented   and several more proposed

- chronic diseases are a great health burden in the U.S. - the major factors in treating them are counseling and motivation - physicians are generally not paid for either

Virtually all diseases are chronic, except pregnancies, many infections (HIV is a prominent exception) & some cancers. Nothing else is curable, despite all the great medicines and devices that are now available. The only other cures are surgical or procedural - surgery to remove...