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13Oct, 2016

Clinton v. Trump 2016: Healthcare (Part 2 of 4)

As noted in our last blog, I have been watching Secretary Clinton (HRC) for a long, long time. What I didn’t mention is that I have been watching Donald J. Trump even longer. Before Secretary Clinton showed up on the national scene, we have followed Mr. Trump partly because of his exploits in real estate. In the early 80’s, I worked for my family’s construction business, and we obtained licenses in Real Estate, Mortgage Origination, and I became a Certified Contractor (all in Florida). Florida has always been a real […]
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9Oct, 2016

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Clinton vs. Trump 2016: Healthcare (Part 3 of 4)

By: Charity Darby | Tags:

The last two blogs in this series have dealt with our interest in Secretary Clinton (HRC) and healthcare, as well as Mr. Trump and his history in real estate, and most recently, his published positions on healthcare. As noted, Mr. Trump’s positions are very much in line with the long-term commentary from the Republican Party. We noted that it lacked both innovation, free markets (something dearly missing in healthcare) and imagination. Secretary Clinton does seem to have a passion for healthcare. Below we will take on her key points as […]
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3Oct, 2016

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Clinton vs. Trump 2016: Healthcare (Part 1 of 4)

By: Charity Darby | Tags:

We have a long and professional history with Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton (HRC), as an impacted party. In what was still our freshman period in healthcare, we have been practically obsessed with her vision of healthcare since 1993. We got into healthcare in 1991, in what can only be described as a cosmic accident, as an angel investor in a medical equipment company. Frustrated with the construction and development business, we decided that maybe healthcare was a better option. After serving as an unpaid internship in the company we invested […]
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28Sep, 2016

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U.S. Health Spending: Where are we going? (Part 4)

By: Charity Darby | Tags:

Over the last three blogs, we have tried to highlight not only what is going on in the U.S. healthcare industry today, but also the path we are heading to in 2025, and even 2030. That path has healthcare cost doubling over the next 15 years, and consuming an even larger part of the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP). We have noted the many warnings that the institutions are flashing from the Center of Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) actuaries to the U.S. Federal Reserve (FED). The trend is shocking […]
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20Sep, 2016

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U.S. Health Spending to 2030 and Beyond (Part 3)

By: Charity Darby | Tags:

In Part 3 of today’s blog, we will continue to focus on bringing awareness to some of the main issues in healthcare. It is important for us to shed light on these topics as they could become a big problem in the future. If we are right, then we have major problem in the U.S economy, and the issues are only going to get worse. One of the important issues to address is how much the demographics are changing everything. We propose that there needs to be tectonic shift in how we […]
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16Sep, 2016

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U.S. Health Spending to 2025 (Part 2)

By: Charity Darby | Tags:

In our last blog, we discussed that the United States crossed another major milestone in healthcare spending in June of 2016, when the national healthcare expenditures topped $3.2 trillion USD representing 18.2% of GDP. We also discussed that with every downturn in the economy, healthcare has leapt to a new level that has not been previously seen. What does the future hold for us as a country today? I made the decision to go into healthcare over a quarter century ago. My first and second means of communication (real estate […]
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13Sep, 2016

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U.S. Health Spending Reaches A New High: 18.2% of U.S. GDP (Part I)

By: Charity Darby | Tags:

Recently, the United States crossed yet another major milestone in healthcare spending. National healthcare expenditures topped $3.2 trillion USD. This magic number was reached in part by anemic U.S. growth over the last seven years. That new spending represents 18.2% of gross domestic product (GDP). Even the most casual reader of this blog should realize that is a staggering number, and we have been tracking healthcare spending fast approaching 20% of GDP (officially). Candidly, we anticipate much higher numbers for the 14th year mark. Many of these increases are in […]
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5Aug, 2016

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Brexit and the U.S. Healthcare Space – Any Implications?

By: Charity Darby | Tags:

We have been watching with the same amazement that many others worldwide have been regarding the referendum to remain or leave the European Union by voters in the United Kingdom. As someone who left a communist controlled country as a child, I will loudly admit I have a fascination with democracy and free elections. The vote last Thursday was captivating to watch live, and clearly I had a long night here on the East Coast of the U.S. watching the results. We had a gut feeling that the public polls […]
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5Aug, 2016

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Medicare Trust Fund, 20 Years and Counting

By: Charity Darby | Tags:

Recently, we published a blog about the finding of the U.S. Federal Reserve on healthcare cost and the impact on inflation. In that blog, we discussed the impending and tectonic shift that is now part of a permanent U.S. law that will transform both fee-for-service medicine in the U.S., and more directly, the government’s Medicare program. This mandate by the Medicare Access and CHIPP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) is bound to change everything in a more dramatic way. First, it limits Medicare increases to providers at 0.5% per year until 2019. […]
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5Aug, 2016

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The United Kingdom

By: Charity Darby | Tags:

We read a great deal of information for business, education, and pleasure, concentrating on U.S. healthcare and demographics, as well as the use of technology in healthcare. Although we read many U.S. sources, I will freely admit, we seldom notice the European perspective and only pay attention after one of our friends “across the pond” brings up the old world issues. **Productivity and electronic healthcare record that appeared in the international edition of the International Edition of the New York Times on June 14, 2016. We published a follow-up blog on […]
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