If Airlines Worked Like Healthcare
Sharp, funny, and far too true: If airlines worked like health...
Driving down the cost of health care: What would actually work?
If competition the way it is structured at present actually drives the cost of health care up rather than down, what would bring lower costs? What provisions in a “health reform act” would actually drop costs in health care? Let’s leave aside for the moment all the...
Forward Through the Chaos: The Future Beyond Healthcare Reform
(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...
Health care reform strategy: Sell patients like baseball players – seriously
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?...
Why “free market competition” fails in health care
In trying to think about the future of health care, thoughtful, intelligent people often ask, “Why can’t we just let the free market operate in health care? That would drive down costs and drive up quality.” They point to the successes of competition in other...
Health 2.0 Get-Together
Wonks and geeks – that's who we need to build the next health care. Wonks (policy types) are in the forefront right now. But the geeks (tech types) are working away, like lemurs in the final age of the dinosaurs, filling the ecological niches that are...