As the former CEO of the nation’s largest medical group, I’m passionate about (and frustrated with) the current care-delivery system in the United States. Today’s hospitals are inefficient, ineffective and expensive. That is why, beginning January 16, 2018, I will...
On Forbes, my selections for top healthcare stories of 2017 reflect a year filled with ups and downs, controversy and intrigue. New mergers bloomed whereas others wilted away. All year, Congress swung back and forth on Obamacare repeal. And the #metoo movement brought...
As consumers, we insist on booking our flights or hotels online whenever we please. We want to check our financial statements electronically at our convenience, too. And, of course, we’d expect to know if our favorite airline, hotel chain or bank failed to meet basic...
After multiple failed attempts to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare), President Donald Trump took action into his own hands last month, issuing an executive order with major implications on the cost of health coverage and care delivery An...
Each year, I have the privilege to teach at both the Stanford University School of Medicine and its Graduate School of Business. This week, I had a rather unique opportunity on campus. I was invited to speak with the undergraduate students enrolled in a public policy...
Less than 24 hours after publishing my Forbes article on the rise and fall of Turntable Health – the disruptive primary care practice founded by Zubin Damania (aka ZDoggMD) – I received scores of emails from patients, medical groups and healthcare professionals. Most...
This week I was honored to visit San Jose City College (SJCC) to kick off the school’s Meet The Author series. The event was organized by the President’s Community Arts and Lectures Series, which has welcomed to campus such notable literary figures as Alex Haley and...
Not far from Walter Reed and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), there’s a military base in Bethesda, Maryland, that houses another prestigious medical institution, the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (USU). Established in 1972, USU trains the...
Workers’ compensation was the nation's earliest form of social insurance, originally covering federal workers in hazardous industries in 1908. Today, workers’ comp insurance covers 130 million employees whose wages total $6.5 trillion. The cost of coverage varies by...
In 1931, more than a century after the Yale School of Medicine (YSM) was founded, the school instituted a unique approach to medical education. Specifically, it did away with exams and grades. Medical school, after all, should be about acquiring knowledge, experience...