Click on the image below or here to see the video and my commentary on Rory Sutherland’s TEDxOxford talk on Charitable Yield Management. (Note: This post is partly a test of Pinterest-as-blogging-platform – go ahead: laugh at me for playing around with the shiny-new.) Source: youtube.com via Health on Pinterest Depending on how this test [...]
As we wind down the first year of the second decade of the twenty first century, Revolution abruptly emerges as a global topic of attention. Clearly, Occupy Wall Street is the social object du jour. It may be time, however, to think about what Revolution accomplishes. Specifically, what work does it do…and what work does [...]
Let’s to a hot game of chess, shall we? The current needs for health care exceed the financial resources available for them. We call that excess: debt. The debt has a price. It is called interest. It’s a compound product, this interest. You’re sick. You get care or you don’t. Multiply the last sentence by [...]
I’m passing this little fact I stumbled upon concerning food stamps and J.P. Morgan/Chase. I’ll suggest a connection to Health after the fact: The largest processor of Electronic Benefit Cards (e.g. for food stamps) is J.P. Morgan. Website for Chase Direct Benefit Card. (Screenshot) J.P. Morgan received $25 Billion from taxpayers succeeding its acquisition of [...]
Here are my predictions for where Health Care will be by 2021: Electronic health information will flow from and to the right places securely, accurately and within the full permission-control of patients Accountable Care Organizations will have taken hold and solved many of the cost problems facing us today The pharmaceutical industry’s pipeline of remarkable [...]
You can go through life not caring about your health – eat by taste instead of satiety; sit instead of walk; believing in things instead of the moment. You can also go through life obsessing about your health – constantly searching online for health products; demanding every diagnostic test, no matter how expensive or irrelevant; [...]
For 21st Century Healthcare to be….well…21st Century Healthcare, we will need heavy-duty investing activity – and not just in terms of financial capital. We will need a kind of investment thinking which accounts not only for the exponential growth of technology but also for the corresponding ramifications of that growth. Much of the venture ideas [...]
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