What’s Next in the Healthcare Debate?

What’s Next in the Healthcare Debate?

by | Aug 8, 2017 | ACA, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Featured Post, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Transformation, Presidential Politics, Repeal and Replace, the healthcare debate, The Senate's turn at healthcare reform, The Triple Aim

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...
Choices: Understanding Risk, Loss, Persuasion and Compulsion in Healthcare

Choices: Understanding Risk, Loss, Persuasion and Compulsion in Healthcare

by | May 24, 2016 | Accountability, Costs, Delivery, Featured Post, Lean, Payment Models, Population Health Management, Process Improvement, Reform

My wife had a simple mantra that she repeated each time our boys left the house to go out with their friends. She would say, “Make good choices!”. Her inference was that there was loss associated with bad choices. Never before have patients, families, doctors, other...