The Keckley Report

“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…

With 6 months until the mid-term elections, and media coverage of polls increasing, it’s important that healthcare stakeholders understand public views of the system, and more important, the beliefs that…

Last week, the Trump administration took dead aim at the health system on multiple fronts: Wednesday: The DOJ widened its attack on medical school admissions policies asserting the Yale School…

May 10-16 is National Hospital Week. The American Hospital Association is going all out to make its case via events, social media and even a wordle developed in collaboration with…

This will be a quiet week for healthcare in DC with major hearings, confirmations and legislative votes not scheduled. Last week was relatively calm as well. The House Ways and…

I study the future of the U.S. health system. The framework I use is based on monitoring trends, lag and lead indicators in five zones of unique relevance in the…

Last week was quite a week: The U.S. announced a peace deal with Iran to which Iranian officials denied knowledge. The strait of Hormuz opened, then closed. The stock market…