by joeflower | Jun 30, 2016 | Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Policy
The costs of healthcare turned a corner in 2009. You can see it on any graph of National Health Expenditures, whether by dollars or dollars per capita or percentage of the economy. There is a decided downward bend in the trend line between 2008 and 2009. The line then...
by joeflower | Jun 9, 2016 | Commentary, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Reform, Universal Healthcare
The answer: Never. Here’s why. The question came over steak and a seafood tower. The steak was $51, if memory serves. A really good steak. The wine was an excellent Napa Valley red blend. We ate in a private room in a restaurant overlooking the Chicago River....
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 | Jun 18, 2015 | Change-Master Series, Healthcare Economics, Systems Thinking, Top Healthcare Stories
The Change-Master Series: Deep Dives Into the Essence of Change-Making and Leadership by Joe Flower Twenty years ago we talked in his cramped, book-lined, ex-carport study with the laden plum tree bowing its fruit over the garden gate outside. What Dr. Len Duhl had to...