Fans of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) can breathe a sigh of relief. In its first day alone, more than 200,000 consumers signed up for health insurance and the numbers […]
Skinny Repeal: How the latest proposal to repeal ACA may impact you
Skinny Repeal. It’s not the latest weight loss treatment. Or a sequel to the Poison song “Unskinny Bop.” And, it’s not at all related to my favorite skinny vanilla latte. […]
Ch-Ch-Changes: AHCA, Health Care Consumerism and More
As General Eric Shinseki once said, “If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.” If there was one theme at this week’s Healthcare Marketing and Physician […]
The Healthcare Communicator’s Survival Guide to a Trump Presidency
While president-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration isn’t until tomorrow, healthcare communicators are already feeling the effects of the transition and bracing for change. It’s a new era, for sure, and unconventional, […]
2016 Presidential Candidates on Healthcare
When it comes to politics, you could call me a-political. If faced with a choice between donkeys or elephants, I’d likely go with a giraffe. That’s not to say I’m […]
King v. Burwell: Your 5 minute study guide
UPDATE: The Supreme Court has upheld ACA subsidies With just three decision days left in this Supreme Court Term (today, Friday, and Monday), we’ll soon know the outcome of King […]
The State of Health Care: 5 Health Care Takeaways from the 2015 State of the Union Address
Health care played a starring role in the 2014 State of the Union address, with nine full paragraphs of attention. In 2015, while taking a backseat to issues like the […]
Are Retail Clinics Just What the Doctor Ordered?
Last week, CVS Caremark announced that it was pulling cigarettes and other tobacco products from its stores because it wanted to focus on becoming more of a health care provider, […]
Voting with Your Dollars: 3 Strategies for Getting Millennials to Buy Into ObamaCare
When Barack Obama was elected President in 2008 (and re-elected in 2012), it was largely because of the efforts of Millennials, the generation of people who are approximately 18-34 years […]