Hearings Held on State Legislation Impacting HospitalsSeveral bills impacting hospitals were discussed in state committee hearings during the week of Nov. 4. The Michigan House Health Policy Behavioral Health subcommittee advanced several pieces of legislation to the full Health Policy Committee …
2024 General Election: What’s Ahead in MichiganBelow is a summary of the projected results for Michigan’s top races that will influence healthcare following the 2024 General Election. Official state and local outcomes will be available in the coming days on the …
CMS Releases Medicare 2025 Outpatient Prospective Payment System Final RuleThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released a final rule to update the Medicare fee-for-service outpatient prospective payment system effective Jan. 1, 2025. The final rule: Provides a net 2% increase …
Longtime Associate Member Alliance-HNI Becomes an Endorsed Business PartnerThe MHA recently endorsed Alliance-HNI, a longtime MHA associate member, as an Endorsed Business Partner. Alliance-HNI delivers a full continuum of services, including mobile, fixed-site, comprehensive service line management and joint venture partnerships. …
2025 Medicare Fee-for-Service Home Health Final Rule ReleasedThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released a final rule for the home health prospective payment system for calendar year 2025. The rule includes updates to the Medicare fee-for-service …
Webinar Focuses on Strengthening Healthcare Worker Well-beingThe MHA Health Foundation will host the webinar Implementing Evidence-Informed Strategies to Normalize Help-Seeking and Strengthen Wellbeing from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Dec 4 to offer strategies for supporting the mental well-being of healthcare professionals. The webinar offers …
In Healthcare, Near-Sightedness is “Normalcy”
““Normalcy” in our political system means willful acceptance that our society is hopelessly divided by income, education, ethnic and political views. It’s benign acceptance of a 2-party system, 3-branches of government (Executive, Legislative, Judicial) and federalism that imposes limits on federal power vis a vis the Constitution. …
A process for defining of the future of the U.S. health system and a bipartisan commitment by hospitals, physicians, drug companies, insurers and employers to its implementation are needed–that’s the point. Near-sightedness in our political system and in our health, system is harmful to the greater good of our society and to the voters, citizens, patients, and beneficiaries all pledge to serve.
As respected healthcare marketer David Jarrard wrote in his blog post yesterday “As the aggravated disunity of this political season rises and falls, healthcare can be a unique convener that embraces people across the political divides, real or imagined. Invite good-minded people to the common ground of healthcare to work together for the common good that healthcare must be.”
Thinking and planning for healthcare’s long-term future is not a luxury: it’s an urgent necessity. It’s also not “normal” in our political and healthcare systems.”
News to KnowMHA offices will be closed and no formal meetings will be scheduled Nov. 11 in honor of Veterans Day.
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