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Hospital Systems: A Framework for Maximizing Social Benefit

Mar 21, 2022• 0 By JEFF GOLDSMITH and IAN MORRISON Hospital consolidation has risen to the top of the health policy stack. David Dranove and Lawton Burns argued in their recent Big Med:  Megaproviders and the High Cost of Health Care in America (Univ of Chicago Press, 2021) that hospital consolidation has produced neither cost savings from “economies of […]

My 22 Oldest Jokes and Why they Still Matter in 2022

I have been studying American healthcare for more than 40 years and I have assembled a large number of one-liners over the years. As we enter 2022, I thought I’d share my 22 oldest jokes and why they still matter. Coming to America I grew up in Glasgow, Scotland.  In Glasgow, healthcare is a right, carrying […]

Policies Techies VCS: What’s Next For Healthcare; Musings from a Futurist

I should’ve been in Paris last week on vacation with my wife, instead I listened in to the Policies Techies VCS:  What’s Next For Healthcare conference (I’ll explain why later).  Matthew Holt and Jessica DaMassa did a magnificent job of assembling the Who’s Who of digital health tech to wax lyrical about what the new kids on the block […]