The Keckley Report

By Thursday of this week, at least 60 political stars and wannabees in the GOP will have had their day in the spotlight in Cleveland. Next week, the same will…

In the U.S. system of health, physicians are trained to be the patient’s advocate, voiding outside influences and financial considerations in assessing and treating their medical needs. That’s the basis…

Since 2009, I have carried a copy of the Declaration and our Constitution along with my passport tucked in my briefcase. As the Affordable Care Act was debated, I found…

At the beginning of last week, media coverage focused on the Orlando massacre of 49 in the Pulse nightclub shooting. By the end, it had shifted to Thursday’s surprise Brexit…

Like so much in life, the concept of precision medicine is simple enough: to make sure the treatments and therapies used with patients match their unique genetic wiring based on…

I’m not an antitrust attorney, just a mere mortal trying to decipher how to balance the pressures of the market for hospitals and the threats from states and the feds…

The origin of hospitals dates back 2500 years to the facilities built by the ancient Greeks to serve their God of health, Asclepius, and to the third century B.C. Roman…

Millennials are the more important to healthcare than the industry recognizes: organizations that miss the signals they’re sending risk failure. Who are the Millennials? They’re the 75.4 million young, tech…

Last week, U.S. District Court of Appeals Judge Rosemary Collyer issued a ruling in House v. Burwell that could cripple the law. In her opinion, the President overstepped his Constitutional…

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act circa 2010 had two aims per its sponsors: to increase access to affordable insurance coverage and to reduce costs. Seventy-four months post-passage, the…