The Keckley Report

There are 6146 hospitals in the United States of which 5198 are classified as community hospitals. They employ 7.8 million including 35% of the nation’s physicians. A fourth are owned…

The Blue Wave didn’t happen. The outcome of Campaign 2020 is a nation deeply divided along racial, economic, and partisan lines. The healthcare industry and the policies that frame its…

Tomorrow ends the formal election cycle though votes in several states will be counted until November 12. But regardless of the election outcome, the coronavirus and its handling by public…

  Regardless of who wins the White House, healthcare policy will be prominent in the next administration. The industry is America’s biggest employer (17.5 million), its biggest and fastest growing…

As the week ended, the GOP-majority Senate Judiciary Committee scheduled its vote this Thursday to advance the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the full Senate for…

There’s growing evidence that the U.S. economic recovery will be a K recovery: a bi-directional response to the pandemic that will produce winners and losers. And the implication is profound…

In the midst of the pandemic and Campaign 2020, three events last week may punctuate the unique prominence of healthcare in our government and politics: Last Saturday, the White House…

The tradition dating back to 1960 of televised Presidential debates continues tomorrow night from Cleveland as Fox News Anchor Chris Wallace moderates. This debate comes at an unprecedented time in…

Last week, four new reports lend credence to the likelihood that large investor owned health insurance companies will emerge from the pandemic as the big winners: GoodRx analysis of prices…

Last week, the news cycle included coverage about the release of Bob Woodward’s “Rage”, continued volatility in the U.S. stock market, the California fires, and the Presidential Campaign. Relatively speaking,…