This weekend’s NY Times had an Op-Ed by doctors Peter Bach and Robert Kocher about why medical school should be free for people willing to pursue a career in primary care. Drs. Bach and Kocher note that primary care is critical to the successful improvement of quality and cost in the healthcare system and yet […]
Follow the Money
This weekend’s NY Times had an Op-Ed by doctors Peter Bach and Robert Kocher about why medical school should be free for people willing to pursue a career in primary care. Drs. Bach and Kocher note that primary care is critical to the successful improvement of quality and cost in the healthcare system and yet […]
Follow the Money
This weekend’s NY Times had an Op-Ed by doctors Peter Bach and Robert Kocher about why medical school should be free for people willing to pursue a career in primary care. Drs. Bach and Kocher note that primary care is critical to the successful improvement of quality and cost in the healthcare system and yet […]
Follow the Money
This weekend’s NY Times had an Op-Ed by doctors Peter Bach and Robert Kocher about why medical school should be free for people willing to pursue a career in primary care. Drs. Bach and Kocher note that primary care is critical to the successful improvement of quality and cost in the healthcare system and yet […]
Follow the Money
This weekend’s NY Times had an Op-Ed by doctors Peter Bach and Robert Kocher about why medical school should be free for people willing to pursue a career in primary care. Drs. Bach and Kocher note that primary care is critical to the successful improvement of quality and cost in the healthcare system and yet […]
How Health Insurers Can Avoid Being Blockbuster in a Netflix World
Talking about health insurance is a good way to clear a room. It is a rare person who is excited to interact with their insurance company or who can understand the explanation of benefits they receive in the mail detailing all of the things that the insurance carrier has decided not to pay on their […]
Sound and Fury Signifying Quite a Lot, Actually
This last week I attended Health Evolution Partners’ Leadership Summit in Laguna Niguel. If you have to leave home for work, Laguna Niguel is the place you want to go. I had a moment during the closing dinner where, on the lawn just beyond my ocean cliff-side table, there were six little bunnies hopping around […]
Healthcare Reform in California: Which Side of the SeeSaw Are We On?
I mentioned in my last post that I was headed off to host UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies program on Health Reform in California. Yesterday I had the honor of moderating a star-powered panel of health reform experts comprised of leading doers and thinkers in our California healthcare ecosystem. Speaking in front of …
Transmogrifying California Healthcare
I’m really looking forward to this coming Friday, February 4th, as I get to moderate a panel on “The Impact of Health Reform on California.” The panel, which was organized by UC Berkeley’s Institute for Governmental Studies is being held in Sacramento and will take place before a sold-out crowd of nearly 200, in large […]
ACO: A Care Odyssey
Recently PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) put out a report that included their top health industry issues of 2011. The list includes these six items: #1: Booming business in health information technology #2: Gearing up to redefine health insurance: From MLRs to insurance exchanges #3: ACOs: Is this the next big thing or not? #4: Nowhere else …