Universal Healthcare Archives - Joe Flower Healthcare Futurist https://imaginewhatif.com/universal-healthcare/ Healthcare Speaker, Consultant Fri, 17 Mar 2017 16:41:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Trump Friend and Ally: Donald, Build Universal Healthcare https://imaginewhatif.com/trump-friend-ally-donald-build-universal-healthcare/ Thu, 16 Mar 2017 23:42:20 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=3812 Opinions are flying. Opinionators with a plan to fix healthcare in America are suddenly as common as waiters with a script in Santa Monica. Few are worth a second glance. They fall into the “that’ll never pass” pile or the “that’ll never work” pile. So why should we pay any attention to Christopher Ruddy’s idea? […]

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]]> Republican State Struggles To Keep Obamacare Alive https://imaginewhatif.com/republican-state-struggles-to-keep-obamacare-alive/ Wed, 22 Jun 2016 13:00:40 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=3005 What it is: Alaska’s GOP-dominated legislature has passed and Sarah Palin endorsed Governor Bill Walker has signed a bill to bail out the state’s one remaining Obamacare insurer, using $55 million in tax money. Take a look: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/alaska-obamacare-collapse-224149 What it is not: A sign that Republican states are just caving in to the inevitability of […]

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]]> When Does “Personal Responsibility” Come into Healthcare? https://imaginewhatif.com/when-does-personal-responsibility-come-into-healthcare/ https://imaginewhatif.com/when-does-personal-responsibility-come-into-healthcare/#comments Thu, 09 Jun 2016 14:42:11 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2949 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. Tourist boats passed by outside the picture windows, […]

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/when-does-personal-responsibility-come-into-healthcare/feed/ 4 On Beyond Healthcare: Save the Country with Preventive Care https://imaginewhatif.com/on-beyond-healthcare-save-the-country-with-preventive-care/ Wed, 23 May 2012 15:39:44 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=1383 If you count yourself a patriot, if you think we need to lower the deficit, bend your efforts to find ways to care for the least cared for, the most difficult, the chronically complex poor and uninsured.

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]]> Why should we cover people who don’t take care of themselves? https://imaginewhatif.com/why-should-we-cover-people-who-dont-take-care-of-themselves/ https://imaginewhatif.com/why-should-we-cover-people-who-dont-take-care-of-themselves/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:28:23 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=1101 People often argue that we can and should reduce healthcare costs by refusing coverage of people with "self-inflicted injuries" such as addictions, obesity, and smoking. They are wrong, and their arguments make no sense.

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/why-should-we-cover-people-who-dont-take-care-of-themselves/feed/ 1 What about personal responsibility? https://imaginewhatif.com/what-about-personal-responsibility/ Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:09:53 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=835 Why do we have to pay for taking care of people who don't take care of themselves? What would the Founders do? What would Jesus do?

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]]> Health Care Reform: Round 2 https://imaginewhatif.com/health-care-reform-round-2/ https://imaginewhatif.com/health-care-reform-round-2/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:18:01 +0000 http://vfwh.net/jfl/?p=5 It’s coming back! The health care reform debate is only through the first round. In a few years, as early as 2013 or 2014, we are likely to see another round, with at least as much whacked-out drama as this one. But the cry will not be, “Bring back the good old days!” The cry will be, “These costs are killing us! Do something! Now!” This next round will be entirely focused on draconian cost-cutting.

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/health-care-reform-round-2/feed/ 2 Why “free market competition” fails in health care https://imaginewhatif.com/why-free-market-competition-fails-in-health-care/ https://imaginewhatif.com/why-free-market-competition-fails-in-health-care/#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:28:32 +0000 http://vfwh.net/jfl/?p=15 "Free market competition" is no answer for the future of health care. Three factors that are fundamental to the nature of health care render health care immune, in most of its parts, from classic economic assumptions about supply and demand and competition.

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/why-free-market-competition-fails-in-health-care/feed/ 6 Why is this the one thing? https://imaginewhatif.com/why-is-this-the-one-thing/ Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:47:03 +0000 http://vfwh.net/jfl/?p=16 Why is health care reform the one thing that we can do only if we can prove ahead of time that it will not actually cost anything?

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]]> “Reform” means higher costs, not lower https://imaginewhatif.com/reform-means-higher-costs-not-lower/ https://imaginewhatif.com/reform-means-higher-costs-not-lower/#comments Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:54:24 +0000 http://vfwh.net/jfl/?p=44 A reader asks: "If the current bill passes are my health insurance costs likely to go up, down, or remain about the same?" If the form that I believe most likely to pass actually passes (insurance reforms, individual mandate, weak or no public option or co-ops), I believe that they will continue to go up. […]

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