by joeflower | Jun 11, 2015 | Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Insurance, Healthcare Reform
So it’s all over the news space and the shrieking blogosphere, with headlines like, “Obamacare Rates To Spike Up To 51%,” “Obamacare Hell…” and “Obamacare Inflationary Deluge…” And online friends are commenting about “Obamacare premiums set to rise next year as much...
by joeflower | Jun 3, 2015 | Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Reform, New Healthcare Technology
Obamacare is built on the assumption that healthcare can be more productive, that we can squeeze more health per dollar out to the system that is built to give it to us. Practically everything I write is based on the same idea — big time. I believe we could do...
by joeflower | May 26, 2015 | Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Insurance, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Reform, Top Healthcare Stories
Republicans have raged against Obamacare for six years now. But do they really want to see it crash? We are rapidly approaching the day when the Supreme Court announces its decision in King v. Burwell. The case found a four-word phrase in the 900-page law that says...
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 | Mar 10, 2015 | Healthcare Insurance, Healthcare Reform, Top Healthcare Stories
By now, you have likely heard analyses of last week’s Obamacare-killer King v. Burwell Supreme Court case. But what will make a real difference to you and your organization? Here are the three things you most need to know about the case: Which outcome you should be...
by joeflower | Apr 5, 2014 | Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Insurance, Healthcare Reform, Top Healthcare Stories
Being against Obamacare has been the keystone, the capstone, the mighty sledgehammer, the massive metaphor of your choice for the right for five years now. They couldn’t stop it from being passed. They couldn’t stop it at the Supreme Court. They...