The Keckley Report

The House of Representatives begins its August recess this week. The Senate will join next week. Both leave DC. without a budget resolution which means reconciliation cannot begin and federal…

I was in the 10th grade at Tyner High School in Chattanooga when Medicaid passed as Title XIX of the Medicare and Medicaid Act of 1965. It was the cornerstone…

Last week was a bad week for physicians: CMS proposed decreased Medicare reimbursement for physicians (CMS’s CY 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule), nurses took dead aim at the American…

The short answer is yes, but the narrative is changing uncomfortably for some. I’ve studied healthcare trends and issues at home and abroad for 50 years—literally. A constant has been…

Incoming American Hospital Association CEO Steve Walsh inherits the powerful trade group’s future at a pivotal time for hospitals. Under Rick Pollack’s strong leadership, AHA effectively kept the lid shut…

Between the November 2026 mid-term election and November 2028 Presidential election, the U.S. healthcare industry will be fundamentally reset as result of economic pressures in the domestic economy and re-setting…

“Life comes at you fast” is the familiar Nationwide Insurance ad tag circa 2004 that features unexpected misfortunes that illustrate the need for insurance. The phrase seems appropriate to current…

Last week, the Coalition to Strengthen America’s Healthcare released survey results about escalating health costs placing blame squarely on ‘corporate health insurers’. The American Hospital Association, a founding member of…

Summer is here and its first week is in the books. Like politics, the economy and life in general, it brought the good, bad and ugly attention to healthcare in…

In the United States, laws that define how our health system operates have evolved over our 250-year history. They’re built on allopathic medical pedagogy borrowed from our European roots and…