by joeflower | Nov 25, 2015 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Insurance, Healthcare Reform, Systems Thinking
“See? Obamacare is failing!” according to industry expert C. Little, citing Wolf Report 712A just filed by Boy W. Cried. What is the hue and cry about this time? United Healthcare is saying it has lost large bales and wads of money on Obamacare exchange plans, and...
by joeflower | Nov 16, 2015 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Insurance, Systems Thinking, Volume to Value
Successful strategies will be the ones that thrive despite high variance, multiple energy inputs and multiple strategic options. You follow movies? That is, not just watching them but thinking about how they are built, looking at the structure? In classic movie...
by joeflower | Aug 6, 2015 | Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Reform
Or…it’s complicated. The New York Times today published a story titled, “No, Giving More People Health Insurance Doesn’t Save Money.” A piece of the argument is, as the author Margo Sanger-Katz puts it, “Almost all preventive health...
by joeflower | Jul 14, 2015 | Featured, Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Management, Systems Thinking, Top Healthcare Stories
When the pace of change is accelerating, you need a flexible process and a paradoxical mind. How do you plan? Obviously, you have to. Obviously, you can’t. For your organization, and for you as a health care leader, the rapid and at times chaotic changes in the...