Coordinating Care: It’s A Moral Question, But Not A Hard One

May 31, 2011

Coordinating care is the only way to lower costs and serve more people better. The time has come to stop trying to dodge the responsibility.

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How to Blow the Big One: A Methodology

May 20, 2011

Healthcare has, right now, the greatest opportunity we have seen in our lifetimes to make a big change, to rebuild itself in a hundred ways to become better for everyone, and cheaper—to get cheaper by getting better. Here’s how to screw it up.

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The Quest for the “Not for Comfort” Health Care Organization

March 18, 2011

The current reorganization of health care could make it better and cheaper for everyone—or it could lead to local monopolies, higher prices and less real competition where it matters.

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

March 10, 2011

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

February 25, 2011

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

January 25, 2011

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

January 8, 2011

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

January 3, 2011

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

December 19, 2010

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

December 1, 2010

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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