There is a way to avoid a collapse of healthcare in this country. (This article originally appeared in Hospitals and Health Networks Daily, January 24, 2011) It’s getting scary. We are facing, before the end of this decade, a bifurcated future. The way things are...
What does the future of healthcare hold for insurance brokers, consultants, and agents? When people and companies buy healthcare insurance, they usually go through a broker, a consultant, or an agent. Agents sell insurance from one company, brokers from many...
I had a great discussion not long ago with a naive believer in “free markets”—naïve in his fairly unexplored belief that the market provides a better solution to pretty much any problem than government does. Over lunch, after a talk I gave, this fellow...
“Someone needs to take this writer out and kick his ass.” The quote leaped out at me from a December 5 New York Times article. Now, maybe I’m a little sensitive about using physical threats to try to silence writers, since I am a writer. Maybe I am especially...
The right payment structure keeps patients healthy while saving money. (Originally published in Hospitals and Health Networks Weekly, 11/30/2010) We want healthcare to be abundant, effective, easy, and cheap; for too many of us too much of the time it is scarce,...
This article 1st appeared on September 20, 2010 in HHN Magazine online site. They are coming in fast under the radar, out of peripheral vision, in the magician’s other hand—and they will change everything. New ideas, surprising networks, stealth business models...
