Evidence-based health: Is America too hypnotized for it?

It’s a backbone-brilliant concept that actually produces better healthcare, and better health, for significantly less money—and a concept that America may be too politically hypnotized to ever put into wide practice.

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The Triumph of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt

According to a new poll, half of all Americans say they are “confused” about healthcare reform. And boy howdy, are they right!

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Five Things Hospitals Have To Get Good At Fast

There is a way out which leads not just to survival, but actually to better healthcare for everyone; not just to a “bending of the cost curve,” but to a substantial drop in the cost of healthcare. It is not simple or fast, but it is absolutely workable. It is already being done.

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Healthcare Insurance Future: Brokers, Consultants, Agents

How healthcare insurance brokers, agents, and consultants can make money helping to drive down the cost of healthcare.

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The “Free Market” vs. Regulation

I had a great discussion not long ago with a naive believer in “free markets”—naïve in his fairly unexplored belief that the market provides a better solution to pretty much any problem than government does. Over lunch, after a talk I gave, this fellow objected to my description of the need for the government to [...]

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Roasting Pigs and Kicking Ass for Healthcare Waste

The case of a doctor accused of putting in hundreds of unnecessary stents illustrates the tumor of waste at the heart of healthcare.

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The Problem with Free Market Healthcare

We want healthcare to be abundant, effective, easy, and cheap; for too many of us too much of the time it is scarce, ineffective, and maddeningly difficult. For all of us it is far too expensive. Why? How do we end up paying so much for healthcare and not getting what we want?

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Accountable for Patient Health

They are coming in fast under the radar, out of peripheral vision, in the magician’s other hand—and they will change everything. New ideas, surprising networks, stealth business models that may change health care profoundly, are bubbling up in pilot programs, experiments and full-on corporate transformations.

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Data-Driven Health Care: Better Faster Cheaper

For the first time, we have the potential to use real data to drive the effectiveness of health care. But large practical obstacles bar the way. We can’t get there from here without specific action and real leadership from across the industry.

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Facing The Physician Crisis

More than half of our current physicians intend to retire or cut back their practices at the very time that 30 to 40 million new people are entering the system, and the Baby Boom is entering its years of “peak medicine.” The necessity of producing more doctors, and emphasizing primary care, is obvious, but the [...]

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