Bending the Curve

Insights on bending the healthcare cost curve.   The principles of Value Based Care work for non-profit organizations operating a closed system such as Kaiser. The people who buy Kaiser coverage, buy into the Kaiser way of healthcare. It’s a prevention first...

Future of Everything

Prepare for the Future of Everything   I participated in several days of the WSJ Future of Everything conference. I didn’t get a sense of awe but got some good insights into what leaders are thinking about now.   Jerome Powell spoke about the potential for a...

Net Positive

Why leaders need to jump into the ring in 2022.   The ring is a reference from Dare to Lead by Brené Brown. The book acknowledges courageous leaders who take on difficult challenges even when the resistence to change threatens to knock them down.   With so...

Achieve Peace

We need to win the Covid19 war and achieve peace. I’ve been listening to leaders in the financial industry about what they hope to see post Covid19. There is unanimous consensus that Covid19 will have a much bigger economic impact than the 2008 financial crisis that...

Medicare for All

Medicare for All may not be off the table yet. A health tech colleague and I touched on Medicare for All when thinking about topics that should be addressed with his board. I’ve been thinking about it more lately because a 2018 poll recently circulated through...