“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” —Anne Frank

“It is time medical science made it easier for itself by catching up to advertising science in communication skills”— Alan Blum

The goal of a newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable - Finley Peter Dunne (Often attributed to journalists generally and popularized in the movie Inherit the Wind)

On this website, I share some exercises in the obvious; We know what to do to improve public health and control health care costs, but lack the leadership and structure to effect change. Perhaps the information presented will be of assistance in making that case more persuasive.

Speed matters: The most rapid way to bend the cost and quality curves is to identify and remediate outliers who have consistent patterns of poor quality, fraud, waste and abuse.

Sustainable savings can be attained by more intensive efforts to improve access to health care and build an evidence-based public health infrastructure.