jflower, Author at Joe Flower Healthcare Futurist

Futurist’s Office Stolen by Pirate, Saved by Entrepreneur

by jflower | Jan 26, 2018 | Tugboat Owatonna

Sausalito, CA. In the pre-dawn rain on January 22nd, a silent figure crept aboard a 107’ luxury converted tugboat for sale in a prime berth in downtown Sausalito, CA. He loosened the 10 heavy hawsers tying the boat to the dock and set the boat adrift, snapping...

Trump Friend and Ally: Donald, Build Universal Healthcare

by jflower | Mar 16, 2017 | Universal Healthcare

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...

Asking the Wrong Healthcare Questions. And Answering the Right Ones

by jflower | Feb 9, 2017 | Uncategorized

I just published this Big Think post on Medium.com, because it’s time for more people, not just the choir, to understand what’s going on in healthcare. We’ve all got to stop asking the wrong questions about healthcare – who pays for it –...

Not Normal Chaos

by jflower | Jan 21, 2017 | Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Reform

The short version of Vox’s Sarah Skiff on “Why Republican Disarray on Health Care Doesn’t Doom Repeal Efforts” would read something like: “It always looks this way in the throes of preparing major legislation. Remember how wild and confusing it was when the Democrats...

MACRA: We Can’t Expect the Feds To Be The Key Lever of Change

by jflower | Oct 22, 2016 | Healthcare Economics

The final MACRA rules are out. MACRA stands for the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), the historic Medicare reform law that passed last year that nobody outside of healthcare has even heard of, and everyone inside the industry is in a sweat about....

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