Nashville Health Care Council Blog

• Hovering near the hub of change (originally published in Post Business blog)

  Monday, March 26, 2012

  Editor's note: This is the last in a series of posts from the Nashville Health Care Council's Leadership Health Care Delegation to Washington. Click here for other installments from the trip.

  Several Leadership Health Care members who last week traveled to Washington shared some closing thoughts about the trip, which saw them interact with industry leaders as well as Tennessee's Congressional delegation. One common thought: Change is always in the offing and even those whose job it is to track it closely are unsure just how things will turn out going forward.

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• On health care’s ‘unsustainable’ model and the push to speed up innovation (originally published in Post Business blog)

  Friday, March 23, 2012

  Editor's note: This is the third in a series of posts from the Nashville Health Care Council's Leadership Health Care Delegation to Washington. Click here for other installments from the trip.

  The Tennessee delegation and key congressional staff members spoke with members of the Nashville Health Care Council’s Leadership Health Care group during a second day of sessions for LHC’s 10 Year Anniversary trip to Washington, D.C.

  Tennessee Congressional Delegation members Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN) and Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) discussed the top health care policy issues they think Congress and the ...

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• Obama advisor: Business should push D.C. to compromise post-election (originally published in Post Business blog)

  Thursday, March 22, 2012

  Editor's note: This is the second in a series of posts from the Nashville Health Care Council's Leadership Health Care Delegation to Washington. Click here for other installments from the trip.

  Robert Gibbs, former White House press secretary and special advisor to President Barack Obama, called on Nashville’s health care leaders to help forge political compromise and move the nation forward after the 2012 election season comes to a close.

  “I hope we have a boisterous, loud debate leading up to the election on November 6th,” said Gibbs, speaking to the 100 attendees of Leadership Health Care’s 10-Year Anniversary Delegation ...

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• ‘Everything is in play’ (originally published in Post Business blog)

  Thursday, March 22, 2012

  Editor's note: This is the first in a series of posts from the Nashville Health Care Council's Leadership Health Care Delegation to Washington. Click here for other installments from the trip.

  What will be the outcome of the Supreme Court’s review of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act? How much will the 2012 election influence the direction of health care policy? What’s next for payers and providers? These were just some of the questions considered during the first day of sessions at the Nashville Health Care Council’s Leadership Health Care 10-Year Anniversary Delegation to Washington, D.C.

  One hundred Leadership ...

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• Follow Leadership Health Care's Delegation to Washington, D.C.

  Wednesday, March 21, 2012

  Leadership Health Care (LHC), the Nashville Health Care Council's initiative to cultivate the talent of future health care industry leaders, will report exclusively from its 10-Year Anniversary Delegation to Washington D.C. on March 21-22 through the SouthComm Publishing network. This signature LHC event will bring 100 future health care leaders to the capital to hear the latest in federal health policy developments from many of the nation's most recognized policy experts and administration officials. View the full delegation agenda.

  Readers in Nashville will have access to delegation session highlights and key speaker takeaways through the NashvillePost.com's daily news ...

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