The Keckley Report

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…

Emotional intelligence (EQ) is not a new idea. In corporate America, it’s widely recognized as an essential quality for effective leadership. Sadly, healthcare may be lagging other industries in addressing…

Opinions about the U.S. health system vary widely based largely on our individual experiences as users from time to time. And most Americans don’t think of it as a system…

Last weekend, I took my son, Jason, to StreamSong to celebrate his 40th birthday. 36 years ago, I didn’t think I’d see his 5th. At 20, I had completed college…

The Keckley Report  After leaving Navigant in February, my pondering of ‘what’s next’ was interrupted by the reality of income taxes due weeks later. By midnight tonight, 240 million Americans…

Medicaid is arguably the most complicated and politically divisive program in health care, and its expansion a certain issue in Campaign 2016. It serves as the healthcare safety net for…

This is the fifth in a series of issues around health reform and the Affordable Care Act. Next week: Medicaid. The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is perhaps…