President’s Blog: The View from Here

  With the release of its new primary care payment models last month, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) continues to act…  More

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was Christmas for health policy engineers—especially at the state level. With the stroke of the pen (and some divisive…  More

Advocates for change are not usually considered organization types. They staff the barriers, not the boardrooms, are seen as more comfortable with…  More

Health care costs comprise an expansive and poorly mapped forest. There are plenty of fearful features to the wilderness, including rising…  More

I teach a public health course on the US health system. As the grizzled realist in the room, I remind my bright-eyed “public healthers” that being…  More

Sigmund Freud said, “Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.” That insight—that productive labor and positive human relationships…  More

Dear Newly Elected Governor: Congratulations on your victory on November 6th and for assembling successful campaign messages that resonated with so…  More

The “sandwich generation” refers to folks who look after both older family members and their own kids. These people—often in their 40s and…  More

A couple of years ago, a graduate school professor with deep and senior health policy experience at the state and federal levels looked at me with …  More

For the last eight years, the US health care system, led by Medicare, has been going to school, learning how to do comprehensive provider payment…  More