Local Healthcare News from Hub & Spoke

Community Clinics, Oh How We Need You!

2011-10-26T13:34:49-07:00

The United States currently faces the toughest economic times since the Great Depression, with an unemployment rate of 9.1 percent in September. This is bad news for families in HMOs as studies show that for every one percent that unemployment...

The America We Want

2011-03-25T10:31:09-07:00

Here's a riddle: What steadily shrinks for the first 39 years of its life and grows blazingly fast for the next 30? (Sorry, gents - the answer's unfortunately not, as a general rule, "my hairline.") Give up? It's the income...

Explaining our healthcare system to alien invaders

2011-02-25T14:12:47-08:00

Sometimes the healthcare situation in this state (and this country in general) really makes us want to cry. When things are this bad - as they are now - the only way we know to avoid breaking down into hysterics...

Saving Medi-Cal will take more than optimism

2011-02-08T09:52:30-08:00

Have you ever fallen a bit into the red ink with your personal finances? Sure, who hasn't. Have you then, as a sort of family recovery plan, written a budget that puts you back in the black, but does so...

New Action Alert Live & Ready for....Action

2011-01-25T15:49:01-08:00

This week, just a short note to point our faithful readers to Round 2 of our website's new policy advocacy action system, or PAAS. Just kidding, there's no way we're calling it PAAS. But our advocacy action page is live...

Curling toward the House

2011-01-13T18:52:44-08:00

We don't know about anyone else, but we here at the Community Clinic Consortium are great fans of curling. Often referred to (in Canada, anyway) as "chess on ice," curling is the time-honored and strategy-intensive duel between two teams of...

A Fond Farewell to Julie Freestone of CCHS

2010-12-07T07:00:00-08:00

We healthcare wonks spend a lot of time talking about the importance of “systems of care.” It’s a phrase that – a lot like “quality improvement” – is jarringly meaningless to the general public and should be banned from all...

Olé! (Tanir's New Gig)

2010-11-18T12:48:14-08:00

Exciting and sad news this week, dear readers: Tanir Ami, ED of the Clinic Consortium and quite possibly the best boss ever in the history of the world, has been named the new CEO of Clinic Ole in Napa. Which...

Waving Hi to a New Medi-Cal Plan

2010-11-16T11:33:47-08:00

Guided by the time-tested adage that "week-and-a-half-old news is still news worth blogging about," we're interested in sparking a conversation here at Hub & Spoke about the recently-finalized 1115 Medicaid Waiver. As most of our readers will know, 1115 Medicaid...

De-Symbolizing Healthcare Reform

2010-11-05T13:53:46-07:00

With a couple of breathing days since the election that swept a near-record number of majority-party congressmembers out of their seats, we thought we'd add our own voice to the din of analysts trying to figure out WHAT THIS MEANS...