by joeflower | May 19, 2015 | Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Insurance, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Reform, Systems Thinking, Top Healthcare Stories
A historic chart of health care spending exposes the culprit in rising costs: code-based fee-for-service medicine. To Be Notified When the Book Is Available for Purchase Go Here Cost is the big factor. Cost is why we can’t have nice things. The overwhelmingly vast...
by joeflower | Jan 28, 2014 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Insurance, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Reform, Top Healthcare Stories
Hospitals need to overhaul their processes so they can help the un- and under-insured stay healthy. Many people running health care institutions tell me that they have been fighting the fight, learning to be nimble, transforming their cultures, making big changes as...
by joeflower | Jun 28, 2012 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Beyond Reform Book, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Reform, Top Healthcare Stories
What a cliffhanger! It is an historic decision, found on the narrowest possible grounds, with a majority agreeing on the result, but not broadly on the reasoning. Effects: The principal effects of the finding, from the point of view of the system: They have just...
by joeflower | Jun 20, 2012 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare 2.0, Healthcare Beyond Reform Book, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Reform, Top Healthcare Stories
[Press Release] Sausalito, Calif., June 20, 2012 — With the Supreme Court’s decision on the healthcare reform act expected within the week, both hope and fear are building that the Court will stop healthcare reform in its tracks. But a healthcare futurist argues that...
by joeflower | May 23, 2012 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Policy, Top Healthcare Stories, Uncategorized, Universal Healthcare
We are entering the season of presidential politics, of bunting and cries of “What about the children?” and star-spangled appeals to full-throated patriotism. So here’s mine: Do you count yourself a patriot? Do you care about the future of this country? (And while we...
by joeflower | Mar 19, 2012 | Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Insurance, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Reform, Top Healthcare Stories, Universal Healthcare
One of the most common ideas in the whole healthcare financing discussion is a moral one. Why, people say, should my taxes and my healthcare premiums go to take care of the huge medical problems of people who don’t take care of themselves? As one commenter on...