Well it was going to take more than a few days to write a follow-up to the conference. After this trip I burnt my United Airlines One Pass Rewards card. After loosing my luggage both ways on my last trip and this time the engines failed during takeoff as we lifted off the tarmac I won't be flying them again. Plus their customer service/mechanics/baggage handlers staff at Ronald Reagan are truly the worst collection of inept employees assembled under one roof. OK enough of this rant.
The Policy Conference was just an excellent event. The panel discussions were extremely informative. To be honest having Congresswoman Schwartz was more of a distraction and really didn't offer up a lot but some canned lines and usual political rhetoric plus she was late. I would have preferred more speakers on the panels with longer discussion.
The panelists really gave great insight into PCMH and talking about current trends in the Healthcare. Sadly nobody could offer a magic bullet to fix the mess(none exists). There was considerable talk about bipartisan solutions. I had to laugh considering last time the bill was made available for 4 hours and had 2700+ pages. People really need to be called on the carpet on crap like this. Both parties need to be held equally accountable and the press really needs to do their job and not be mouthpieces for a particular political bent.
What i took away from this conference was that PCMH is the new trendy thing in Healthcare. However is it viable or financially prudent? It's way to early to guess. What I did get a nice sense was that doctor's need help not criticism in the way they do things. We have unreasonable expectations at the practice level for them with current regulations. Either they get help of they will fail and pull out of the medicare/medicaid market.
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