(From H&HN Weekly, November 24, 2009)It’s not easy being a futurist, but I will make a bold prediction: no clear victory, no simple end. What we will get, one way or another, is years of turmoil, re-definitions, new rules and shifting markets—an industry under...
Here’s a health care reform strategy that I have not heard anywhere else. Think about this:Why aren’t health plans more aggressive in promoting the long-term health of their members, like getting them to eat better, stop smoking, get a little exercise, and all that?...
The future of health care in the United States cannot look good as long as we waste so much of what we spend. I have long cited studies showing that we waste 30%-40% of our health care dollar, and have long claimed that we could beat that and reduce our costs by 50%,...
Rural vs. urban? Or something deeper? A provision in the House health care reform bill (HR 3962) instructs the Institute of Medicine to take two years to look at why health care costs so much more in some areas than in others in the last two years of life –...
