The “Obamacare killer” Supreme Court Case: What you need to know
Here are the three things you most need to know about last week’s "Obamacare-killer" King v. Burwell Supreme Court case: o Which outcome you should be most concerned about. o If the plaintiffs win,...
View ArticleThe Seven Levers of Change in Healthcare
I talk to people all the time in health care at big civic gatherings; board retreats; conventions of nurses, physicians, managers of medical groups and accountable care organizations and health plans...
View ArticleGetting Paid to do Better Medicine for Less
Atul Gawande’s new New Yorker article, “Overkill: America’s Epidemic of Unnecessary Care,” brilliantly lays out why and how we are getting so much overtesting, overdiagnosis, and overtreatment —...
View ArticleThe Smoking Gun: How U.S. Health Care Came to Cost Insanely More
A historic chart of health care spending exposes the culprit in rising costs: code-based fee-for-service medicine. To Be Notified When the Book Is Available for Purchase Go Here Cost is the big factor....
View ArticleGOP has The Fear: King v. Burwell
Republicans have raged against Obamacare for six years now. But do they really want to see it crash? We are rapidly approaching the day when the Supreme Court announces its decision in King v. Burwell....
View ArticleObamacare Rates Set To Spike? Um…
So it’s all over the news space and the shrieking blogosphere, with headlines like, “Obamacare Rates To Spike Up To 51%,” “Obamacare Hell…” and “Obamacare Inflationary Deluge…” And online friends are...
View Article“Winning” by Defeating the Triple Aim
Maintaining market dominance is actually a fragile strategy based on a single scenario and a monochromatic set of assumptions about the future. If your entire business structure depends on keeping your...
View Article“Obamacare is Failing,” According to Industry Expert C. Little
“See? Obamacare is failing!” according to industry expert C. Little, citing Wolf Report 712A just filed by Boy W. Cried. But before we perform the Last Rites over Obamacare, perhaps we should think for...
View ArticleRepublican State Struggles To Keep Obamacare Alive
What it is: Alaska’s GOP-dominated legislature has passed and Sarah Palin endorsed Governor Bill Walker has signed a bill to bail out the state’s one remaining Obamacare insurer, using $55 million in...
View ArticleHealthcare Economics: Why this stuff doesn’t work the way you think it does —...
Healthcare economics are weird, opaque, and convoluted. The business of healthcare is unlike any other business. The politicians and pundits arguing about how to fix healthcare in the United States...
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