(From the July 7, 2009 Hospitals and Health Networks Weekly)How can we tell what health care "reform" will mean for providers, really, on the ground? Politicians, the "chattering class," and especially broadcasters whose income depends on their...
(by Joe Flower, from TheHealthCareBlog.com)You want healthcare reform. I want healthcare reform. Grandma Jenkins wants healthcare reform. What is healthcare reform? What kind of animal are we talking about? How would we recognize it if it came up and bit us? What are...
(by Joe Flower, from TheHealthCareBlog.com)We can actually say what a better healthcare system would look like, if we look at healthcare in the United States as a complex adaptive system stuck in a Nash equilibrium. The ideal reformed healthcare system would be...
I’m going to say something that may surprise you. There are lots of ways to make healthcare cheaper by making it better. It’s not like getting your fender fixed. People who use healthcare – you and me – have no way to tell what’s...
This is big! Color me amazed: The principal association of U.S. health plans, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) has announced that it will support healthcare reform that would lead to insuring all Americans, on one condition: That all Americans be...
From Hospitals and Health Networks Online, September 9, 2008 Toward a value-based health care system. Do you get what you pay for in health care? How can you tell? What if you could tell?However we re-organize the payment of health care in the United States over the...
