Posts for Health System Transformation
Building a Bridge to Empowerment Across a Language Barrier
I recently had the privilege of joining partner advocates at the Rhode Island Organizing Project (RIOP) at a “house meeting” in the Providence community. RIOP staff have long used house meetings as a powerful organizing tool, gathering consumers in comfortable...
Trump HHS Indicates Openness to Using 1115 Waivers to Undermine Consumer Protections in Medicaid
On top of the uncertainty surrounding Medicaid expansion and Medicaid funding stemming from GOP Affordable Care Act (ACA) repeal efforts, HHS Secretary Tom Price and CMS Chief Seema Verma’s recent letter to governors adds another layer of change and uneasiness....
The Takeaway: Why is the GOP health care plan so terrible?
Reviews are in on the House GOP health care plan, which has been enthusiastically embraced by President Trump, and they are pretty terrible.
Director's Corner: Bringing Health System Leaders Together to #ProtectInnovation
On Monday, March 6, our Center team hosted a briefing at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. that brought together the voices of leaders of innovative health systems. Titled “Too Much to Lose: Protecting Patients, Protecting Progress in Health...
Director's Corner: When Words Collide - Same Words, Very Different Meanings for Consumer-Centric Lexicon
For example, think about consumer or patient engagement, something we promote and implement in our work here at the Center. Our vision for consumer engagement regards patients as active partners in their care
Dually Eligible Beneficiaries Placed in “Double Jeopardy” By Threats to Medicaid and Medicare
Beyond the unfolding rush to repeal the ACA, proposals in favor among Republican congressional leaders and the nominee for HHS Secretary, Rep. Tom Price, would permanently rework the structure and financing of Medicaid...
Gathering Light: Year-End Reflections
This final 2016 edition of Health Innovation Highlights comes to you on the Winter Solstice. For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, today we experience the inflection point from the days getting shorter, to the gift of a few...
Gifts of Gold and Coal in Two End-of-Year Congressional Votes
The holidays are often a tough time for people struggling with drug and alcohol addiction or mental illness. But Congress has provided an early present that may ease some of these struggles in years to come: Half a billion dollars...
ACA Repeal Without Replacement Further Endangers Struggling Rural Communities
In 2015, Belhaven, North Carolina Mayor Adam O’Neal and supporters from 11 other states set out on foot for their second 300-plus mile trek from his rural town to our nation’s capital to draw attention to an important issue: rural communities...
Building a Bridge to Empowerment Across a Language Barrier
I recently had the privilege of joining partner advocates at the Rhode Island Organizing Project (RIOP) at a “house meeting” in the Providence community. RIOP staff have long used house meetings as a powerful organizing tool, gathering consumers in comfortable...
Trump HHS Indicates Openness to Using 1115 Waivers to Undermine Consumer Protections in Medicaid
On top of the uncertainty surrounding Medicaid expansion and Medicaid funding stemming from GOP Affordable Care Act (ACA) repeal efforts, HHS Secretary Tom Price and CMS Chief Seema Verma’s recent letter to governors adds another layer of change and uneasiness....
The Takeaway: Why is the GOP health care plan so terrible?
Reviews are in on the House GOP health care plan, which has been enthusiastically embraced by President Trump, and they are pretty terrible.
Director's Corner: Bringing Health System Leaders Together to #ProtectInnovation
On Monday, March 6, our Center team hosted a briefing at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. that brought together the voices of leaders of innovative health systems. Titled “Too Much to Lose: Protecting Patients, Protecting Progress in Health...
Director's Corner: When Words Collide - Same Words, Very Different Meanings for Consumer-Centric Lexicon
For example, think about consumer or patient engagement, something we promote and implement in our work here at the Center. Our vision for consumer engagement regards patients as active partners in their care
Dually Eligible Beneficiaries Placed in “Double Jeopardy” By Threats to Medicaid and Medicare
Beyond the unfolding rush to repeal the ACA, proposals in favor among Republican congressional leaders and the nominee for HHS Secretary, Rep. Tom Price, would permanently rework the structure and financing of Medicaid...
Gathering Light: Year-End Reflections
This final 2016 edition of Health Innovation Highlights comes to you on the Winter Solstice. For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, today we experience the inflection point from the days getting shorter, to the gift of a few...
Gifts of Gold and Coal in Two End-of-Year Congressional Votes
The holidays are often a tough time for people struggling with drug and alcohol addiction or mental illness. But Congress has provided an early present that may ease some of these struggles in years to come: Half a billion dollars...
ACA Repeal Without Replacement Further Endangers Struggling Rural Communities
In 2015, Belhaven, North Carolina Mayor Adam O’Neal and supporters from 11 other states set out on foot for their second 300-plus mile trek from his rural town to our nation’s capital to draw attention to an important issue: rural communities...