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10. Wisdom in HealthCare: One has to have joy in work to get productivity & quality
All quotes by Russell L. Ackoff It is far better to do the right thing wrong than to do the wrong thing right. Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right […]
9. The Health Plan for the USA: The person insured has to experience all costs.
Whole Foods has begun to implement this type of high deductible health Plan: HDHP BASIC COVERAGE Key features of Whole Foods’ “consumer driven” health-care plan: CDHP No premiums: After a few months on the job, individual workers get free coverage. For workers with families, free coverage starts after about five years. High deductibles: $500 for […]
8. Innovations in Healthcare: Doing the Wrong Things Righter Management Improvement Encyclopedia: Variation
Variation – difference in the output of a process (or inputs to a process) over time. Variation consists of common cause variation, special cause variation and structural variation (and some include tampering). Shewart provide the control chart as a tool to use when managing processes. The reduction of variation has profound impacts on the reduction […]
7. Overheard on Capitol Hill: The New Invasion of our Personal Assets Between a Liberty/Freedom Senator Wilson and a TSR (Tax/Spend/Regulate) Senator Sampson
Senator Wilson: It looks like the other half of the senate and the H of R are on a spending trajectory again. With senator from Massachusetts thinking there is some wealth out there we haven’t tapped. So we’ll get to their financial worth. Senator Sampson: There are so many needs for our country that […]
6. Misdirection in Healthcare: Two Trillion Dollars per year wasted. Graphic Illustration by Paul Samuelson Showing How Limiting the Supply of Doctors Causes Higher Prices. (Source: Samuelson 1992
Market opponents have not only claimed there are too many doctors but also too many hospital beds. In 1972, the federal government started restricting the supply of hospitals with certificate-of-need (followed by repeal of the Hospital Survey and Construction Act in 1974). Alaska House of Representatives member Bob Lynn argued the true motivation was “large […]
5. Lean HealthCare: Cost in Perspective Who’s To Blame For Our Rising Healthcare Costs? By Louis Goodman & Timothy Norbeck
Capital Flows Contributor Guest commentary curated by Forbes Opinion. Avik Roy, Opinion Editor. For many years and in countless articles, physicians have been the scapegoat for rising healthcare costs in the U.S. In fact, they have been blamed by many critics for the U.S. leading the world in healthcare expenditures. A close examination of the […]
4. Government Healthcare: The Medicare Enslavement Web
The longer a government program is in effect, the more complicated it becomes. When the government introduced managed care in an effort to control costs, there were progressive controls on all segments of the medical/healthcare complex. This included doctors, hospitals, health insurance companies, laboratories, imaging facilities (x-rays, scans, CT, MRI, etc., et. al.,) pharmaceuticals, druggists, medical […]
2. In the News: Editorial: Trust in Health Care JAMA: July 15, 2019
Building Trust in Health Care—Why, Where, and How Dhruv Khullar, MD, MPP1 Viewpoint Promoting Trust Between Patients and Physicians in the Era of Artificial Intelligence Shantanu Nundy, MD, MBA; Tara Montgomery, BA; Robert M. Wachter, MD Trust in US health care has declined precipitously in the past half century. In 1966, 73% of US residents had confidence in medical leaders, whereas in 2012, […]
1. Featured Article: The Initial Encounter with Eyes Wide Open
The Initial Encounter with Eyes Wide Open For all the importance we place on words, whether spoken or written, much of the communicating we do on a regular basis comes through body language. According to pioneering research by Dr. Albert Mehrabian, only (7) seven percent of the meaning we derive from human communication comes from […]
Organizations Assisting in Restoring Transparency in Society which will facilitate Affordable Health Care and Private Health Plans
Citizens Against Government Waste, www.CAGW.org, America’s Taxpayer’s Watch Dog. Founded in 1984 by the late businessman J. Peter Grace and the late Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Jack Anderson, CAGW is the legacy of President Ronald Reagan’s Private Sector Survey on Cost Control, also known as the Grace Commission. President Reagan directed the Grace Commission to “work […]