Adieu
After today’s post, we’re going to shut things down here at ‘What Matters’ central for the rest of the year to spend time with the family, watch some old Bing Crosby Christmas movies, and make some...
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Here at What Matters HQ, we hope you had a great holiday season and got to slow down a little. That is, unless you were cramming in some elective surgeries for patients who had met their deductible....
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Some of you are working on your plans for 2015. Yes, you should have done that in November or December, but you know, things happen. Hey, you’ll get no condemnation here because we are still keeping...
View ArticlePotential Jail Time
That’s a little rude, isn’t it, leading with such a jolting headline this early in the New Year? Potential jail time? Well, I am sorry to be abrupt, but one of the themes that I expect us to visit...
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In the early, edgy days of the David Letterman Show (yes, that is twice that Dave made the blog), one of my favorite bits was when Dave would go up on the roof and throw things off their seven story...
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[This week we are exploring the story of how Vermont’s effort to build a single payer healthcare system came to an end. Click here for Part One.] To pick up the tale from our previous post about...
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[This week we are exploring the story of how Vermont’s effort to build a single payer healthcare system came to an end. Click here for Part One and Part Two.] So Vermont, a liberal state that prides...
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There are many things I don’t get about the retail clothing industry. My kids would put ‘any sense of fashion’ at the top of that list, but I am talking about the business model rather than a...
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Steven Brill’s new book, ‘America’s Bitter Pill,’ is getting a lot of media attention. It is an insider’s look at the sausage making process that gave us the Affordable Care Act. The sub-title alone...
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If you are a regular reader here, you know that while we talk a lot about how technology is impacting big strategic decisions facing physician practices, we don’t talk much about technology itself, at...
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