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Health Law Is Reforming System Via Market Forces
All the controversial rhetoric about the new health reform law is missing a huge reality: The law is driving dramatic changes in the real world. Almost every major health delivery system is preparing...
View ArticlePatient-Centered Care? Or Not?
The term “patient-centered care” has increasingly been used to describe healthcare structures that deliver better quality care – as well as often doing so with lower costs. And today there was a news...
View ArticleHealthcare Turkey Talk
Thanksgiving is a great occasion for learning what people think about the future of the US healthcare system.* This year, I’m going to find out what people are thinking about some of the coming health...
View ArticleWhy Healthcare Spending is Slowing – A New Normal?
The growth in healthcare spending has slowed in recent years. Many experts and pundits have sought to explain why – while also worrying, (or predicting), that this slowing is only temporary, i.e. past...
View ArticleDoctors are Not Terrorists, But…….
Changing behavior is very complex. Many management books, philosophical tomes, and academic psychology articles have been written on this subject, so I’m going to simply and quickly get to the...
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Cutting Employer Healthcare Costs
Over the past 20+ years larger companies have tried many tactics to control the growth of their healthcare spending, including HMOs, consumer-directed healthcare, wellness programs, value-based...
View ArticleAccomplishments v. Activity in Healthcare
The phrase “Paying for Value not Volume” has been health reform’s mantra for several/many years. But the concepts embodied in “Paying for Value not Volume” are problematic on two levels. First, the...
View ArticleJimmy Buffett Medicare and Healthcare
The title of Jimmy Buffett’s song “Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes” is a good description of the fundamental changes occurring in the US healthcare system: Within the Federal Government –...
View ArticleCER, HIT, and Women’s Health Research
Below is a video of my discussion with Phyllis Greenberger, President and CEO of the Society for Women’s Health Research, about the implications of comparative effectiveness research (CER) and...
View ArticleSovaldi® and Curing Hep C – Myths and Other Facts
The introduction of new oral medicines that can cure chronic hepatitis C infections (including Sovaldi®) have led to some intense discussions permeated with misleading information about the pricing of...
View ArticleSpecialty Drugs: Getting What We Asked For
The cost of so-called specialty drugs has become a major health policy issue largely because of spending projections for new medicines for chronic hepatitis C infection and cancers. Having worked on...
View ArticleHealth, Healthcare, and Government Spending (and a Culture of Health)
Why governments care about health and healthcare, how they are connected to government spending and priorities, and why addressing social determinants of health is so important for making lasting...
View ArticleHealth Law Is Reforming System Via Market Forces
All the controversial rhetoric about the new health reform law is missing a huge reality: The law is driving dramatic changes in the real world. Almost every major health delivery system is preparing...
View ArticlePatient-Centered Care? Or Not?
The term “patient-centered care” has increasingly been used to describe healthcare structures that deliver better quality care – as well as often doing so with lower costs. And today there was a news...
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