Healthcare Insurance Archives - Joe Flower Healthcare Futurist https://imaginewhatif.com/healthcare-insurance/ Healthcare Speaker, Consultant Tue, 11 Apr 2017 15:55:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Healthcare Economics: Why this stuff doesn’t work the way you think it does — and how to fix it https://imaginewhatif.com/healthcare-economics-why-stuff-doesnt-work-way-you-think-how-to-fix/ https://imaginewhatif.com/healthcare-economics-why-stuff-doesnt-work-way-you-think-how-to-fix/#comments Sat, 18 Mar 2017 00:12:33 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=3816 Healthcare economics are weird, opaque, and convoluted. The business of healthcare is unlike any other business. The politicians and pundits arguing about how to fix healthcare in the United States don’t understand what they are trying to fix. Neither do you, probably, because almost no one does. So let me help with this explainer, your best eight minutes on healthcare economics, why healthcare economics are different, and what would work.

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/healthcare-economics-why-stuff-doesnt-work-way-you-think-how-to-fix/feed/ 1 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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]]> “Obamacare is Failing,” According to Industry Expert C. Little https://imaginewhatif.com/obamacare-is-failing-according-to-industry-expert-c-little/ https://imaginewhatif.com/obamacare-is-failing-according-to-industry-expert-c-little/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:12:39 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2521 “See? Obamacare is failing!” according to industry expert C. Little, citing Wolf Report 712A just filed by Boy W. Cried. But before we perform the Last Rites over Obamacare, perhaps we should think for a moment about the hit ratio of the first 711 Wolf Reports from the young Mr. Cried and ask a few questions.

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/obamacare-is-failing-according-to-industry-expert-c-little/feed/ 2 “Winning” by Defeating the Triple Aim https://imaginewhatif.com/winning-by-defeating-the-triple-aim/ Mon, 16 Nov 2015 20:26:02 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2515 Maintaining market dominance is actually a fragile strategy based on a single scenario and a monochromatic set of assumptions about the future. If your entire business structure depends on keeping your prices a high secret, and not exposed to real competition on price and quality, you are on the crumbling edge of a cliff as the seas advance.

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]]> Obamacare Rates Set To Spike? Um… https://imaginewhatif.com/obamacare-rates-set-to-spike-um/ https://imaginewhatif.com/obamacare-rates-set-to-spike-um/#comments Fri, 12 Jun 2015 00:40:10 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2300 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 as 51% in some states…” Hey, hey, hey. No need to panic. “Set […]

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/obamacare-rates-set-to-spike-um/feed/ 2 GOP has The Fear: King v. Burwell https://imaginewhatif.com/gop-has-the-fear-king-v-burwell/ https://imaginewhatif.com/gop-has-the-fear-king-v-burwell/#comments Tue, 26 May 2015 17:10:58 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2155 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 that the tax subsidies are available to people […]

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/gop-has-the-fear-king-v-burwell/feed/ 3 The Smoking Gun: How U.S. Health Care Came to Cost Insanely More https://imaginewhatif.com/the-smoking-gun-how-u-s-health-care-came-to-cost-insanely-more/ https://imaginewhatif.com/the-smoking-gun-how-u-s-health-care-came-to-cost-insanely-more/#comments Tue, 19 May 2015 17:34:19 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2105 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 pile of money we siphon into health care in the United […]

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/the-smoking-gun-how-u-s-health-care-came-to-cost-insanely-more/feed/ 1 Getting Paid to do Better Medicine for Less https://imaginewhatif.com/getting-paid-to-do-better-medicine-for-less/ Wed, 13 May 2015 18:34:14 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2097 Atul Gawande’s new New Yorker article, “Overkill: America’s Epidemic of Unnecessary Care,”  brilliantly lays out why and how we are getting so much overtesting, overdiagnosis, and overtreatment — testing that is inappropriate, not helpful, and often harmful; diagnosis of problems and abnormalities that are real but actually won’t hurt us; treatment that misses the mark, is […]

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]]> The Seven Levers of Change in Healthcare https://imaginewhatif.com/the-seven-levers-of-change/ Thu, 02 Apr 2015 13:27:05 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2004 I talk to people all the time in health care at big civic gatherings; board retreats; conventions of nurses, physicians, managers of medical groups and accountable care organizations and health plans and device manufacturers. I give a talk, sit on a panel, run a discussion — and the rest of the time I listen, over […]

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]]> The “Obamacare killer” Supreme Court Case: What you need to know https://imaginewhatif.com/the-obamacare-killer-supreme-court-case-what-you-need-to-know/ Wed, 11 Mar 2015 04:57:21 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=1969 Here are the three things you most need to know about last week’s "Obamacare-killer" King v. Burwell Supreme Court case:

o Which outcome you should be most concerned about.
o If the plaintiffs win, here’s what would be hurt most: our struggle for better, cheaper healthcare.
o Why the “states rights” argument means — surprise — that they probably won’t.

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