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29Nov, 2016

Seven Solutions to Healthcare Reform (Part 1 of 7)

In our last blog, “ObamaCare | Epilogue Part 2” we ended with seven solutions for healthcare reform. There are certainly many more than seven things that we can do to reform healthcare; however, as we mentioned in the last blog, healthcare is extremely complicated and a change in one area has a ripple effect throughout as we’ve seen happen with the Affordable Care Act. We must start with a view of the entire landscape of healthcare, and the seven solutions provide us this high altitude view so that we can then make […]
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10Nov, 2016

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ObamaCare | Epilogue (Part 2)

By: Charity Darby | Tags:

The U.S. presidential elections have passed, and as noted in previous blogs, we believed that regardless of which candidate prevailed, we would be facing a tectonic shift in healthcare in the U.S. and, it would seem, in the world. We ended Part 1 of this 2-part blog noting that we expected foreseeable “tectonic events” that would be driving forces in healthcare for the next decade. The first earthquake happened around 3AM Eastern Standard Time on Wednesday, November 9th. The world watched with amazement, some with positive anticipation, and others in […]
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4Nov, 2016

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ObamaCare | Epilogue (Part 1)

By: Charity Darby | Tags:

On the eve of the what is likely one of the most momentous Presidential elections in our nation’s history, we will indulge ourselves one last time with an analytical and editorial look back at “ObamaCare”, or as it correctly named, the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA). In our recently blogs, we opined on the relative impact on healthcare going forward with the election of Secretary Hillary Clinton or Mr. Donald Trump. We took for granted that the ACA will pass into history. In summary, we believe that if Clinton […]
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27Oct, 2016

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

By: Charity Darby | Tags:

In the previous three blogs we have attempted to set a baseline and then review the basic public policy platform of both Secretary Clinton and Mr. Trump regarding our national healthcare policy going forward. Based on more than a quarter-century in healthcare we believe that there will be an impact on healthcare as a result of the election. However, we believe that the biggest impact to healthcare will be from things that neither presidential candidate can fundamentally change. Looking back over the last eight years of President Obama’s term, it […]
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13Oct, 2016

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

By: Charity Darby | Tags:

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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