Joe Flower

Health care futurist: Author, How to Get What We Pay For: A Handbook for Healthcare Revolutionaries | Speaker Consultant, Business | Keynote Worldwide

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What are the omens, the shadows in my crystal ball in the shape of today's system that tell us that #healthcare is headed for big discontinuities? Part 2. #healthcarefuturist @boltyboy @ASlavitt @THCBstaff https://t.co/xxKX11BDWe

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The system is unstable. Opportunities are fountaining out of the coming disruption. The big legacy players in the #healthcare industry are so far looking the other way.
Part 1. #healthcarefuturist #healthinsurance @boltyboy @ASlavitt @THCBstaff https://t.co/Tmb5TU2YFj

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Spreading the word now in the #insurance industry: #healthcare buyers are in rebellion and not going to put up with healthcare monopolies any more: https://t.co/LxatMAF0kw #healthcarefuturist #healthcarespeaker

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Strengthen audits of Medicare Advantage programs? Check for billions in inflated charges? "No!" says the health insurance industry. Because of course! MA is their growth engine, their cash cow! @boltyboy @ASlavitt #healthcarefuturist #healthcare https://t.co/iZ8uHXzLSH

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What's possible? What's do-able? @ezraklein talks to the 4 top Senate Dems.

Very thoughtful. Very real.

So they are about:
• Start where we are, expand and improve Medicare and Obamacare
• Medicare at 50
• a "public option"
• vigorous action against costs, especially drugs

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

Health reform lives or dies in the Senate. So what did key Senate Democrats learn from Obamacare — and what kind of bill will they write next time?

I asked Sens. Brown, Stabenow, Warner, and Wyden. There’s more consensus than I expected: https://t.co/l1UDPorxi4

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@boltyboy The referendum was a vote on a painless, no-consequence Brexit.

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This is really significant: A vaccine to cure Alzheimers is in stage III clinical trials. If it works it would be the biggest thing to come down the pike in a long time. #healthcarefuturist @boltyboy @ASlavitt https://t.co/52GCxNa7ap

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Obamacare's Medicaid expansion not only got more people covered and improved health, it improved the economy of the states that accepted it. #Medicaid #Obamacare #healthcarefuturist @ASlavitt @boltyboy #MedicareForAll

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The Rebellion of the Buyers: Who's turning into rebels with a cause? The buyers of healthcare who are finding that they can be shrewd and tactical and stop paying these ridiculous costs. #healthcare #futurist
@ASlavitt @ezraklein @statnews @boltyboy https://t.co/fZGdl20ohr

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Brilliant takedown. "In reality, Americans don’t like their private health insurance so much as blindly tolerate it." #healthcare #M4A @ASlavitt @boltyboy @thedeductiblestaff https://t.co/HiBowujasF

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300,000 more people with coverage!

Virginia passed Medicaid expansion last year, started enrolling people last fall. An estimated 400,000 people were eligible. Now 3/4 of them have signed up. Good for them, good for Virginia! #healthcare #medicaid

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Single payer advocate @KipSullivan's portrait of a M4A town hall in @thedeductible not only illustrates the political tensions around healthcare reform, it shows how the plans differ—some of them are viable, others not so much. @boltyboy @ASlavitt

https://t.co/1heTEqTatf

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Maybe. Maybe.

Two things, though: 1) Canada may not allow this. They are already suffering a drug shortage. 2) So far all of this President's executive orders to lower the cost of healthcare have been fought to a standstill in the courts.

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26/26 The only serious way to evaluate any "reform" that lays claim to lowering prices is to ask:

How does this reform plan change the way we pay for healthcare, the economic foundation of the industry?

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Why healthcare is incapable of reducing its own costs:
A tutorial system analysis
#M4A #UHC #healthcare #healthcarecosts @ASlavitt @boltyboy #futurist https://t.co/d1pIiSzvKH #healthcaredebate #healthforall

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25/26 The very structure of health care, as it exists today, means that no major player across the entire market is truly competing to provide the best medical care at the lowest cost.