What free market healthcare really looks like
Get while the gettin’ is good!
As an economics graduate, MBA, and entrepreneur I’m a fan of the free market system. The invisible hand is a beautiful thing, and it’s certainly been good for me. Â A healthcare management consultant and board member, I make my living from the business of health.
Capitalism has a place in healthcare, but in developing policies we should also recognize the limits of free market approaches and be open to the benefits of socialist ideas. For example, before the Affordable Care Act, people with pre-existing conditions or high healthcare costs would experience “job lock....
Source: Health Business Blog - July 28, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Economics Health plans Physicians Policy and politics Source Type: blogs
What free market healthcare really looks like
Get while the gettin’ is good!
As an economics graduate, MBA, and entrepreneur I’m a fan of the free market system. The invisible hand is a beautiful thing, and it’s certainly been good for me. Â A healthcare management consultant and board member, I make my living from the business of health.
Capitalism has a place in healthcare, but in developing policies we should also recognize the limits of free market approaches and be open to the benefits of socialist ideas. For example, before the Affordable Care Act, people with pre-existing conditions or high healthcare costs would experience “job lock....
Source: Health Business Blog - July 28, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Economics Health plans Physicians Policy and politics Source Type: blogs
Health Wonk Review is up at healthinsurance.org
Check out the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review at healthinsurance.org. The Are We There Yet? Edition features a variety of posts, many about the GOP’s latest healthcare policy efforts.
I really like the opening graphic.
(Source: Health Business Blog)
Source: Health Business Blog - July 24, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Announcements Blogs Policy and politics Source Type: blogs
What does GOP think will come after they sabotage (or repeal) Obamacare?
Comrade Trump, are you listening?
Just after the election I wrote (Goodbye Obamacare? More like hello single payer!) to lay out my vision of where Republican dysfunction and ideology could ultimately lead. At the time I said:
Trump himself has been at least a liberal and frankly more of a socialist when it comes to health care policy, at least based on his earlier writings. Once he learns that the ideas of the conservatives in Congress won’t produce universal coverage, he may well go back to improving –instead of replacing– Obamacare, moving to a Canadian style single payer system, or opening up Medicare for all,...
Source: Health Business Blog - July 20, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Policy and politics single payer Source Type: blogs
Sorry Fred. It will take more than teamwork to fix GOP healthcare dysfunction
GOP 2017. What a team!
Why can’t the Republican Congress manage to repeal and replace Obamacare, considering the whole party has campaigned for seven years on the promise to do just that? According to Fred Barnes of the Wall Street Journal the answer is simple: the Republicans are not playing as a team. In Barnes’ reality, if the GOP would only treat politics as the team sport it is they could create “a more free-market healthcare system in which people can buy the insurance they want, not what government requires.” It sounds so beautiful I’m sure everyone will put aside their differences and ...
Source: Health Business Blog - July 18, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Policy and politics Source Type: blogs
Tufts nursing impasse: I ’ m quoted in the Boston Globe
Who “wins” in a strike?
The first nursing strike in Boston in three decades is an ugly situation. I feel badly about it, especially for patients and their families who are collateral damage. Even if the quality of care is the same with the replacement nurses, the extra stress and aggravation really are a problem.
I’m quoted on the dispute in today’s front page Boston Globe story (At Tufts Medical Center, pressure to cut costs in a city rich with hospitals). I’m not directly involved with Tufts management or nursing leadership, so I commented on the overall environment in which its occurring.
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Source: Health Business Blog - July 13, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Economics Hospitals nursing strike tufts Source Type: blogs
Medial EarlySign: machine learning for population health (podcast)
https://healthbb.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/hbdew057-david-e-williams-interviews-medials-tomer-amit.mp3
Medial EarlySign analyzes standard EHR data to identify individuals at high risk for disease. The company’s first solution, ColonFlag uses longitudinal blood test data to identify patients who are at high risk for colorectal cancer.
I spoke recently with Medial executive Tomer Amit, who filled me in on the company’s approach and explained why the company has been named a Cool Vendor in AI by Gartner.
(0:15) What unmet need are you serving?
(1:05) You talk about using data that’s already available. Wha...
Source: Health Business Blog - July 7, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Entrepreneurs International Technology Israel machine learning Source Type: blogs
Welcome to #CareTalk with CareCentrix CEO John Driscoll
In this episode of #CareTalk I banter with John Driscoll  –CEO of post-acute benefits manager CareCentrix—  about the health insurance company mergers, drug pricing, whistleblowers, marijuana and more.
Don’t miss the lightning round at the end!
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By healthcare business consultant David E. Williams, president of Health Business Group. (Source: Health Business Blog)
Source: Health Business Blog - June 28, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Podcast Policy and politics Source Type: blogs
Health Wonk Review is up at Managed Care Matters
Never one to disappoint, Managed Care Matters’ Joe Paduda hosts a double edition of the Health Wonk Review. Part One is Repeal and Replace and Part Two is everything else. (Source: Health Business Blog)
Source: Health Business Blog - June 23, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Announcements Blogs Policy and politics Source Type: blogs
