An Adult Conversation and Other Comments

Random thoughts while wondering if the healthcare industry will take the lead on true cost-saving structural reform or, as usual, wait for someone else (a reluctant Congress)… At midnight on Monday we either filed our taxes or filed an extension.  This...

That Other Potential Calamity for Healthcare

When some public policy calamity strikes, people tremble with fear or anger and they cry out:  “Why didn’t someone warn us?  Why didn’t someone tell us that there were bad consequences?  We do not want this pain!” That is a reasonable request,...

President Obama’s Jell-O

DALLAS (July 19, 2009) — Reforming healthcare is one of the most complex, daunting and important tasks of this decade. What began with great hope and good intentions to avoid the reform mistakes of the past is now going badly. Sadly, what we are watching in...