Healthcare Policy Archives - Joe Flower Healthcare Futurist https://imaginewhatif.com/healthcare-policy/ 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 Not Normal Chaos https://imaginewhatif.com/not-normal-chaos/ Sun, 22 Jan 2017 03:33:15 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=3598 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 were trying to put together healthcare reform in 2009? Joe Lieberman was insisting on a public option, ‘pro-life’ Democrats […]

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]]> Why Did Healthcare Inflation Slow Down? Why Does It Matter? https://imaginewhatif.com/why-did-healthcare-inflation-slow-down-why-does-it-matter/ Thu, 30 Jun 2016 18:07:25 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=3039 The costs of healthcare turned a corner in 2009. You can see it on any graph of National Health Expenditures, whether by dollars or dollars per capita or percentage of the economy. There is a decided downward bend in the trend line between 2008 and 2009. The line then stays nearly flat, close to or […]

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]]> 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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]]> When Does “Personal Responsibility” Come into Healthcare? https://imaginewhatif.com/when-does-personal-responsibility-come-into-healthcare/ https://imaginewhatif.com/when-does-personal-responsibility-come-into-healthcare/#comments Thu, 09 Jun 2016 14:42:11 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2949 The answer: Never. Here’s why. The question came over steak and a seafood tower. The steak was $51, if memory serves. A really good steak. The wine was an excellent Napa Valley red blend. We ate in a private room in a restaurant overlooking the Chicago River. Tourist boats passed by outside the picture windows, […]

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/when-does-personal-responsibility-come-into-healthcare/feed/ 4 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 What About the Poor? https://imaginewhatif.com/what-about-the-poor/ https://imaginewhatif.com/what-about-the-poor/#comments Tue, 28 Jan 2014 18:33:02 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=1867 In comparison with the actual scale of the problems, most of the business models and strategies in health care have been sleeping like overfed dogs. It’s wake-up time in America.

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/what-about-the-poor/feed/ 1 Cliffhanger — and the beginning of the Next Healthcare https://imaginewhatif.com/cliffhanger-and-the-beginning-of-the-next-healthcare/ https://imaginewhatif.com/cliffhanger-and-the-beginning-of-the-next-healthcare/#comments Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:07:45 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=1524 The Supreme Court's affirmation of the ACA knocks the pins out from under resistance to change. The Next Healthcare picks up speed.

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/cliffhanger-and-the-beginning-of-the-next-healthcare/feed/ 1 Healthcare Futurist: Supreme Court Can’t Stop Healthcare Reform https://imaginewhatif.com/healthcare-futurist-supreme-court-cant-stop-healthcare-reform/ https://imaginewhatif.com/healthcare-futurist-supreme-court-cant-stop-healthcare-reform/#comments Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:23:24 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=1505 Both hope and fear are building that the Supreme Court will stop healthcare reform in its tracks. But the real reforms in healthcare will survive with or without the law.

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