The View from Here

“Don’t try to teach a pig to sing, Chris,” a colleague once advised me, quoting the well-known saying. “You won’t succeed and you will only tick off…  More

Put a bunch of state leaders in a room, kick out the hangers-on, close the door, and ask them where they need help in health policy. What do they say?…  More

For state leaders, Ebola has been a “Pac-Man” issue—inexorably gobbling up resources and time and, like the disease itself, constantly…  More

What kind of coverage decisions are states making about Sovaldi, the new Hepatitis C drug that costs $1,000 a pill or up to $168,000 a treatment? The…  More

How does systemic restructuring happen in health care delivery systems? It’s a given among the health policy intelligentsia that to improve the…  More

“Physicians at my hospital are retiring. Younger doctors are exploring opportunities in other regions where they can make more money. I can’t recruit…  More

Every once in a while, an issue comes along that serves up so clearly the conflict between a societal desire to maximize medical care treatment…  More

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” These words of the German poet Goethe grace each final report of the…  More

I recently addressed a gathering of about 50 health leaders—providers, payers and state officials—who had come together at a Milbank Memorial…  More