Are Consolidation, Competition, and Innovation the Answer? Part 4: A Closer Look at Competition
Is vigorous competition between providers of healthcare likely to be an effective part of our collective efforts to lower the cost of medical care? It would seem likely because there is nothing more fundamental to our American culture than our belief in the benefits...
Getting Beyond Hyperpartisanship on the Road to the Triple Aim
Last week when I copied and pasted the conclusions in the JAMA article by President Obama I discovered that Google Drive did not know the word “hyperpartisanship.” . Did Google’s ignorance of hyperparisanship suggest that we are experiencing something new?...
What’s Next in the Healthcare Debate?
I was delightfully dazed and confused the morning after Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and John McCain launched us into the next phase of the healthcare debate by giving the ACA a last minute reprieve. In a mix of ecstasy and disbelief I watched the video of John...
Better Healthcare Requires A Bipartisan Expression of Reciprocal Altruism
A major event that changed the way I see the world occurred in 1995 when I read Robert Wright’s The Moral Animal: Why We Are The Way We Are: the New Science of Evolutionary Psychology. The book was so good that I immediately gobbled up Nonzero: The Logic of Human...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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