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paranoidgemsbok · 2 years
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Thank you so sincerely to everyone who has reblogged that post and reached out. I'm really touched by the attention it's gotten, and it's helped me personally feel a little less helpless about this
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trinamcmichaels01 · 4 years
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Physiotherapy - A Reliable Sport Injury Monitoring as well as Avoidance Strategy
Sports injuries are inevitable! Players despise them given that longer spells of absence can have a destructive result on their stamina as well as performance. Most importantly some valuable chances to excel as well as move to the next levels of the game are lost. Physiotherapy is by far the fastest method to put any kind of sporting activities individual back at work. Its healing worth has been recognized as an independent scientific research to restore physical health. On top of that, it is an unmatched precautionary strategy also. That's how physio therapists are now an indispensable component of sports training entourage.
 The proficiency and also experience of a physiotherapist enters play when determining the reasons of an injury, chalking out the therapy and rehab strategy.
 The First Assessment
The first meeting with sporting activities physio therapist is a substantial one wherein the physiotherapist seeks response to a great deal of thorough inquiries to identify the reasons of an injury. Basis these responses as well as other basic information, the medical professional formulates a complete strategy to place a damaged player on the road to therapy as well as healing Connected Health Centers.
 Treatment and also Recovery
The treatment options rely on the trouble recognized. There are multiple physical rehabilitation treatments offered like cool or warm treatment, taping, soft tissue mobilization, 10s, ultrasound or complete immobilization with wheelchair or crutches and so on. The objective of all these treatments is to manage the early inflammatory phase, secure the hurt cells from further injury, control discomfort & swelling as well as to activate the recovery procedure. The physio therapist will utilize among these or mix of these methods relying on the nature of injury.
 When there is no discomfort, early mobilization exercises like variety of activity, massage therapy, strengthening exercises etc are used up to fix up. The recovery program achieves regular joint activities, brings back strength and regular muscle mass features Connected Health Centers.
 Precautionary Physiotherapy
When the injury has actually been healed, the emphasis of a physiotherapist moves towards enlightening and furnishing the player to avoid future injuries. The task plan is currently sporting activity certain. Below are a few strategies the physiotherapist will certainly utilize:
 - Reinforcing the core - Core includes the abdominal area, obliques as well as lower back muscular tissues. All these with each other form the power house of the body and also offer force for all the facility activities.
 - Enhance flexibility with stretching exercises
- Educate the significance of proper warm up
- Correct the pose, the strategy called for as well as exactly how and also when to use pressure
- Recommend the best shoes and also sports gear, safety tapping and supporting
- Teach self monitoring that is determine the symptoms and also factors injury and also best methods to prevent injury
 Physiotherapy is not only concerning physical well being. It has an all natural strategy where in the general health and fitness degrees of mind and body are improved. A well experienced physio therapist works in tandem with the player to draw out the most effective in terms of endurance and also efficiency and also stop future injuries.
 Rehab From Addiction Via Extreme Sports
 Exactly how can you place on your own via an effective rehab programme if you have been addicted to drugs and alcohol for greater than 15 years? Exactly how do you reconcile your vast talents as well as thrown away life in alcohol and drugs? Exactly how do you concern terms with an addicted mommy who committed suicide in your young child years? Meet Todd Crandell from Ohio, and learn exactly how you can turn addicted life around with a rehabilitation programme based on severe sporting activities that will provide you objective and also definition in life.
 Todd's sad tale began when he was 3. His mommy, who was addicted to medicines committed suicide. That left a scar in Todd s deep that he suffered from emotional issues from a young age. He might not integrate with the truth that his mommy was gone. Where was the love that was intended to be provided to a child growing? His father, managing his own grieve after that might do little to assist him cope. As a result, by 13, Todd has begun drinking. At 16, he had his first taste of drug and that obtained him hooked. All those years of looking for something that would reduce his pain of his mother's lost unexpectedly appear to be over. He assumed the high of drugs could ease that discomfort. For temporary moments, he felt that alleviate. Drugs and alcohol was his rehabilitation from the discomfort of shedding his mother Connected Health Centers
 Todd was always a gifted sportsman. He mastered ice hockey and also was energetic in various other sporting activities. At high school, he was among the best objective tender in the group. Yet as his drug addition got hold of him, he came to be less and much less of a player he was expected to be. His coached sacked him reluctantly, but Todd did not care. Medicines were his rehab and also detoxification from the discomfort that never vanished. The end of his senior high school sports days was likewise the start of a trip of torment, prison, arrest, misery, and aimlessness for him. Living and dying became non presence to him. He could not see any difference.
 In 1991, his dad provided him a final word to visit rehab or get out of his house. Todd told his daddy that he would have sufficient of his 'rehabilitation' initially before going for a real rehab and detoxification programme. He even endangered to 'eliminate' his papa if he attempted to stop him. There was nothing Todd's father might do, but he never quit on his son. As months past, Todd saw the love and also care of his dad, as well as in 1993, while consuming beer, he simply put down his beverage as well as left. Todd had reached his transforming point. His genuine rehab had begun Connected Health Centers.
 He started playing sporting activities once more, and made use of that platform as his primary rehabilitation programme. Playing hockey once again did not mean much to him any longer. He required something a lot more extreme and also extreme that would certainly extend him past what he has actually experienced. The pain he had suffered during his addiction days needed to be changed by another type of pain for this new rehabilitation programme to work. Triathlon became his brand-new medicine. The Iron Man through 2.4 miles of swimming in open waters, 120 miles on the road bike over rolling terrain and 26 mile of going to test the human endurance to the limitation, became his new medicine towards a much more deliberate and also meaningful life.
 Todd trained for months preparing for this huge test. His brand-new rehab program reshaped his body and additionally rerouted his energies to something a lot more deliberate. When the moment came, Todd was successful in his very first Iron Guy. He discovered his new drug, this moment it is a positive kind of medication. Todd took place to complete more than ten Iron Man races. In 2001 Todd also found brand-new drive and purpose in his life. He uncovered that his life was in fact preparing him for his ultimate calling helpful those in comparable troubles as him. He began the 'Racing for Recuperation' program in Ohio, which had actually attracted significant rate of interest from those like him before, seeking to rehab themselves from alcohol and drug dependency. Todd likewise discovered success in his family. He now has a household of his own, although his operate in the "Competing for Recovery' program took him away from them frequently. However his new located hope as well as drive had actually provided Todd a new lease of life. From hereon, his brand-new rehabilitation programme would proceed and there will certainly be no end. We are constantly on rehabilitation once we have actually located our hiring life Connected Health Centers.
 What You Required to Find Out About Physical Rehabilitation Centers.
 There are so many physical rehabilitation facilities now across the country. They are supplying a large range of physical therapy and also rehabilitation. It is currently tough to find a health center in the states that hasn't obtained the most recent in physical rehab modern technology. What they are offering are modern cure and recovery for patients with physical obstacles due to ailments, genes and or mishaps. Another prospering division in almost all physical rehab facilities is the sports and job associated injuries. Since sports is currently a multi-billion sector, athletes as well as hopeful sporting activities aficionados do not just go to these rehabilitation centers for treatment however maintenance as well as education and learning also. Since majority of individuals are currently mindful that some kinds of workouts and sports is a part of healthy and balanced living, running, jogging, working out in gyms and also various other forms of exercises are obtaining popularity consequently accidents and also injuries can not be prevented.
 Nova Care Rehabilitation Facility is one of the leading suppliers of physical and work-related therapy with certified as well as gifted specialists and staff prepared to help and also aids clients with physical problems. Other than Physical as well as Work Therapies, Nova Treatment additionally offers Orthopedic Rehabilitation, Low Back Program, Aquatic Therapy, Elderly Health, Neurological Rehab, Vestibular Recovery, Female's Wellness Program as well as Athletic Training Solutions.
 Orthopedic Rehab is treatments as well as rehabilitation of clients, who had gone through total hip or knee substitute or has actually sustained injury to the bone. A team of specialists help patients reclaim their toughness flexibility and endurance to be able to go home and go back to their typical activities Connected Health Centers.
 Possibly among the most usual issues of males and females alike, reduced back pain can likewise be a chronic injury. Mostly suffered from poor position, work associated problems and crashes, a total program that aids in reinforcing and dealing with positions to alleviate people of reduced neck and back pain which are sometimes disabling already.
 Water Therapy is one of one of the most frequently utilized therapies when it concerns the therapy of muscles and bones. Due to the fact that our body considers minimal in water, certain muscle teams in addition to joints and also bones can openly as well as securely move when immersed in water therefore offering a secure setting for recovery as well as treatment Connected Health Centers.
 Individuals aged 65 years and also over have unique needs when it pertains to muscular tissues and bone treatment. The Senior Wellness Center particularly caters to those people and also their special requirements providing education and learning on just how to care for their back and joints to stop mishaps and injuries.
 Neurological Rehab is a mix of muscle mass as well as sensory education and learning, control activities and also movement and also speech treatments especially to those who endured stroke or spinal cord injury Connected Health Centers.
 Vestibular Rehab is the recovery of injuries and conditions of the inner ear like vertigo, wooziness, discrepancy and other similar conditions. All programs are individualized, focusing on the source of the injury or condition which is the majority of the moment various from the others Connected Health Centers.
 Female's Health Program is specifically developed for her one-of-a-kind needs. Typical wellness concerns for women that are consisted of in this program are weakening of bones, fibromyalgia, incontinence and others.
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tirdclxvi · 7 years
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I HATE CALL CENTER!
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I present you with everything I abhor about our call centre culture.   And let this blog serve as a warning to you should you be considering a job in a call centre anytime soon; maintain your self respect, please.   Working in a call centre without realizing how demoralizing that shit is, is bad enough... but knowing beforehand just makes you a dipshit.
YOUR CAREER IS OVER Once you’ve spent a few years in a few different call centres, you’re fucked.  You will never escape.  It will become a vicious, inescapable cycle, as you slowly come to realize that employers do not see call centre skills as ‘transferable’ in any respect.  You know that cosy office job you’ve been looking for?  Yeah, unfortunately, all the relevant experience you’ve gained through call centres doesn’t mean shit, and you’ll find yourself on the reject pile faster  than an all new rehabbed up Kerry Katona at an Icleand audition.  
THEY ALL HAVE BULLSHIT MEANINGLESS SLOGANS Here’s a newsflash : they all have the same stupid bullshit slogans that the staff secretly laugh about behind their backs.  Some crap about putting customers first, some drivel about how important you are to them.  Ever notice how these principles only apply so long as the shit isn’t hitting the fan and they aren’t uber busy?  Seriously, next time you’re call after call, just pose a simple query to your Team Leader / Coach / whatever, and keep on going back to them with new problems, and see how quickly their own principles are abandoned in favour of subtly hinting “ we’re busy, get rid of them.”  (Also known as arrange a callback/escalation/raise a complaint)
YOU ARE EXPENDABLE Ever had a Team Leader, or worse still stupendously overpaid community leader / operations manager tell you that YOU’RE the most important resource the company has, without YOU, the business simply couldn’t continue to function?  Yeah, that’s bullshit, and you know it.  So, you’re the most critical commodity the business has, into which they invested god knows how many thousands of pounds into you huh?  Then maybe they could explain to you why, with the exception of the maintenance team (and even then it’s ambiguous) you’re the lowest paid employees in the entire company, save for the canteen staff and security guard?  That’s right, you’re so important to the company that they pay your hardly- superiors a few thousand pounds more than you, and your “big bosses” up to three times as much.  That’s how much they value you.  
TEAM LEADER JOBS ARE EASY And I know, because I used to be one, and a very good one at that.  I had a certain amount of calls I was required to listen to on a weekly basis, team reporting, coaching and 121’s – it was a walk in the fucking park.  ANY Team Leader who has the nerve to protest their jobs and the difficulties therein, are fucking awful at their jobs.  And before you question my credentials, I was a Team Leader with one of the largest five brands in my particular arena, in the world.  It’s a piece of piss for a job, particularly on weekends where, providing you aren’t a total goon needing to catch up on the monitoring you couldn’t be fucked to do through the week, you get to sit on your ass all day and play on the internet / text your buddies on your iphone.  Of course, you may get the odd indignant asshole who wants to complain “to a manager” but quite frankly, we all know how much fun it can be to antagonize the shit out of them on a dull day, shooting those assholes squarely down with some miniscule piece of crap from their terms and conditions.
NEVER GIVE THE CUSTOMER THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT Because most of the time, they don’t have a fucking clue what they’re talking about.  To the credit of most call centres (and one of the very few credits they will ever attain) many have cottoned on to this by now, and gingerly suggest that “rather than giving the customer the benefit of the doubt, we should clearly explain why they may have not fully understood the terms of their agreement.”  Bravo.
MOST OF THE JOBS ABOVE YOURS ARE AN ABSOLUTE FUCKING DODDLE When I was placed in charge of operations for the particular section of the business I was responsible for, I couldn’t believe how fucking easy that shit was.  In a very brief nutshell, my chief responsibility was to provide a gap analysis based on projected call volumes, and make sure they were filled so we didn’t lose (or abandon) any calls.  The Team Leaders sent me reports on how they were performing including things like sickness (yeah right) holiday, maternity leave and so on.  Shit I didn’t have any use for really, but was a requirement to keep some dickhead at corporate level happy.  Running operations is so fucking easy you could do it blindfolded.  And they get paid a LOT more than you.  You know when they play down how much they earn?  Yeah, they earn only a little bit more than you... AFTER they’ve paid tax and BEFORE you do. Also, you know those annoying dipshits who call your Team Leader if you’ve been on an unusually long piss break or you’re late for your lunch because you’ve been speaking to some insufferable dickhead for an hour and a half?  Yeah, their job is cushy as fuck my friends.  They are essentially paid to keep the systems up to date with who is doing what and when, and keep tabs on leave allocation.  Maybe I’m super efficient and possess a deadly intelligence which escalates me to Limitless-esque levels, or maybe it’s just that shit is so easy to do for a living your grandma could do it with a few weeks training, who knows.  But either way, when you think to yourself “I could do a batter job than those fuckers”, you’re absolutely correct.   ONLY DICKHEADS ENJOY THEIR JOB ON THE PHONES I don’t trust any fucker who claims to enjoy working in a call centre.   Don’t hate it, sure.  Tolerate it, okay.  But enjoy it?  You’re an unaspirational piece of shit, and I envy  you, for having few loftier goals in life than getting pissed with your mates, and watching the football.   IT IS NOT A CAREER Hoo boy, I have met some fuckwit jobsworths in my time.  I once worked with this fat fuck, who was such a corporate kissass, they stated their “dream holiday” would consist of spending time with their work colleagues, somewhere hot.  Another guy, a Team Leader in fact, was registered with a dating website for professionals... who must have felt like the biggest tool in the universe when a colleague brilliantly asked, in a blase' manner “but why are you on a website for career professionals?  You’re a Team Leader in a call centre.” That’s right dipshit, working in a call centre is not a career, no matter how far up the ladder you’re able to drag yourself.    You still work in a call centre, and you work in a call centre because you’re too much of a dipshit to get a real job.  Call centres always have been, and always will be, maligned places of ridicule.  I worked for a company once, before I made the mistake of stepping into the call centre arena under the impression it was a good career move, in which the manager told me outright “I would never employ a manager from a call centre as a manager here, I don’t care how much experience they have on paper.   It’s a different world.”   Working in a call centre for twenty years, and finding yourself a big cheese in the grand scheme of call centre machinations, is nothing to be proud of.  In fact, it’s downright disappointing, that a fossil like you was unable, even in the days before call centres were fucking everywhere, to escape working in a call centre.  Actually, I would say it makes you the biggest fucking loser in the place. GETTING A JOB IN A CALL CENTRE IS EASY Call centres ought to have revolving doors which deposit you right in the fucking dole queue, and the jobless in your seat.  Getting a job in a call centre is the easiest job you’ll ever get.  I cringed when I had to ask a plethora of bullshit questions about “times you’ve provided excellent customer service”, and note their responses which more often than not , roughly translated into either “it pays more money than the call centre I work at now,” or “I just need a fucking job, I’ll be out of here as soon as I get a real job.” In the early days, I walked out of a couple of call centre jobs, because they were shit, and I was young.  And I always managed to find myself in another call centre within a week or two.   YOU GIVE ME SHIT WHEN I'M LATE, BUT DON'T MIND WHEN I HAVE TO STAY BACK This fucking shit drives me crazy, and I have petitioned my employers in the past to do something about it – the fact is, if you get stuck on a call to some fucking utter dickhead at finishing time, and you leave five or ten minutes late – well then, fuck you, you won’t be getting paid for it, or get time back.  That’s just the nature of the job, and you were made aware of it when you signed up.  Too many call centres take this approach, and it’s disgraceful bullshit, particularly when you’re late and you have to explain every detail of your whereabouts from waking up to stepping through the office door.  Some call centres give you the time back or overtime after an allotted period – maybe twenty minutes – yet I can’t help but notice those assholes who run the place, can swan in as late as they like and leave on a whim, without retribution.   WORKING CHRISTMAS / NEW YEAR'S / BANK HOLIDAY This one is squarely aimed at both business and customer in equal measure; as both are as bad as each other when it comes to this particular annoyance – what sort of utter, utter dickead, will phone a call centre on Christmas day?  Granted, if it’s in regard to something which will fucking ruin Christmas for the entire family there and then, then fair play to you.  Get on the phone and get that shit sorted.  Just bear in mind, you may end up speaking to some poor bastard who wanted nothing more than to see their family and enjoy Christmas day at home, who has been forced to work because their name wasn’t picked out of a fucking hat after holidays were ‘fairly distributed’.  They won’t give a fuck about your problem, and will wish bad things to happen to you and your family if you call up for some stupid bullshit which could, in all honesty, wait a few fucking days.  Give a fuck at Christmas, only call in an emergency, hey? And of course, let’s not forget – how many of the bigwigs have to come in at Christmas or New Year?  That’s right, fucking zilch, they are more than happy to run the holiday ship on a skeleton crew and not give a fuck about THEIR jobs for the day. The typical sort of bullshit you'll find in a call centre around Christmas.  It's so hilarious, it's almost like I'm not working Christmas fucking day at all while you're at home with your family, and there's an inflatable Reindeer in your seat just to remind me you fuck.   DRESS DOWN FOR CHARITY IS MANDATORY, NOT OPTIONAL, LET'S BE HONEST... ...Unless you want to look like the biggest jerk in the world coming to work in your business dress, then you’re gonna have to pay.  Oh, it’s for charity?  Yeah, then fuck that shit I’ll be sure to be hiding in the toilet when you come around rattling your tin.  You pay me to come to work, I don’t pay you. COMMUNITY CHAMPION, TEAM CHAMPION, FEEDBACK CHAMPION, BULLSHIT CHAMPION Hey there big guy, you know what you’re championing?  Some bullshit reasoning to make you seem like you matter to the business.  You know what would be great?  If you could travel back in time, make a visit to the coliseum, and declare yourself “Complaints Champion,” preferably in an arena full of rabid badass Gladiators and hungry lions.  See how you get on.   ANONYMOUS FEEDBACK IS A WONDERFULLY BAD IDEA, AND I LOVE IT My business had in place a means of written feedback regarding different aspects of the business (as opposed to “anonymous surveys” which are, incidentally, always completed on your logins) and the outcome was hilarious to the point it was withdrawn unless people could use it responsibly.  “That blonde bitch who works downstairs can suck my dick she’s a retard” was one of many gloriously eye opening comments left for the management.   NO BOOKS OR MAGAZINES AT YOUR DESK I have a unique opinion on this issue, as the first ever call centre I worked for, just didn’t give a fuck about it.  Seriously, there were fucking zero rules and the campaign we were working on was HUGE.  Like, the biggest in the United Kingdom huge.  We ate at our desks, read books, played network games, hundreds of people had a great old time.  Hell, I even met a kid I eventually became good friends with because he passed me leftover pizza and chips nobody could finish one afternoon.  Calls got answered, and nobody hated the fucking place.  People wanted to help customers, and went that elusive “extra mile” (corporate bullshit alert... whop whoop) because they were chilled as fuck and working with friends they could share interests with.  Then along came the client one day and said “aw HELL no, these assholes are clearly too happy, we need more professionalism about the place.”  And it all came to a grinding, painful halt. Guess what happened?  Everyone left, management blew a gasket because calls were being abandoned left right and centre, and one disgruntled employee shat on the men’s toilet floor (which lead to many hilarious conversations among management as to the best course of action to clean it up) The result was, a professional looking environment, full of seething employees who stopped giving a fuck about their jobs.  Look dipshit, if I have a book at my desk and I’m reading between calls, I’m not going to be suddenly taken off guard when a call comes through and answer with “Good afternoon, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo speaking... I mean, no wait, fuck, sorry”   PAPER FREE ENVIRONMENT OMGLOL.  You know why. DEPRESSION IS YOUR FREE TICKET TO TIMEOFFSVILLE I know colleagues who have been off work with depression, and they are fucking depressed.  I can see it in their eyes; the crushing defeat of having to answer the phones day after day, dreading that next call; I even observed a colleague one afternoon just sit staring at his phone, not even logged in, as if he was about to have a fucking breakdown, he was so depressed.  I’ve been there too guys, and genuine depression is absolutely awful, uncontrollable, and frankly induces temporary thoughts the likes of which you couldn’t have even conceived just a few days earlier, so I would never make fun of the genuine victims of such a crippling ailment, but... ... then there are the rest of you fuckers who know for a fact the old ‘depression’ card is your free ride.  In a call centre, the easiest way to get out of work with virtually no repercussions on you – hell, it can often negate a piss poor performance over the last six months – is to hit them with a sick note for depression.  Often open ended, your dipshit employer will be all rich tea and sympathy for you, walking on eggshells to make your life easier when – and if – you decide to return to work. The sad thing about this particular section is, most people who start off by faking it end up with genuine fucking depression at some point.   Hell, chances are you don’t even realize you’re suffering with depression – but don’t be scared to go see the doc if work is getting too much for you.  Call centre depression must be ridiculously rampant in this country, to the point where I believe it will attain that very clinical name.
ASSHOLE CUSTOMERS Now I will admit, a lot of customers are nice enough.  Jolly and carefree, they care not a jot if you break bad news to them, so long as you do it smiling down the phone (ALERT ALERT) and in a manner which states “I’m sorry, I know my company is a complete suckass bitch, and I’m on your side.”  But then, you have the condescending dickheads, who think they are above speaking to the monkey and want the organ grinder whom, if they’re worth their salt as Team Leaders will back you up all the way, and they will bitch and moan at you, attempting to belittle you like the raging cockheads they are. The best way to deal with them, I always found, was to put up a wall of indifference, and speak in a level tone, simply repeating the same information over and over in a monotone voice, talking over them, until they fucking explode and swear at you enough to cut them off.  Know your T&C’s and shoot those fuckers down in a hail of legality if needs be.  And f you’re sick as fuck, just slip in “my manager would advise you of the same thing” and bingo, you said the M word, and like some sort of subliminal suggestion, they’ll want your boss like fat girl wants loved. 'Hey girls, I just had this real asshole on the phone, I've got his email though so he'll be getting some midget porn later.'
CALL CENTRE TRAINING Holy flipchart presentations, Batman!  So you kick off with an icebreaker, or “the most pointless bullshit ever conceived, given that it all it achieves is to put everyone on edge for ten minutes, and they’ll instantly forget everybody’s name anyway”, then you  follow it up with a little history on the business, usually backed up by some jobsworth asshole who will pop their heads in to high five the trainer and assure you just how great a company it is to work for, and throughout the two/three/four week period you’ll enjoy a carefree attitude towards breaks and lunches.  “Awesome,” you’ll think, ”this will definitely be a good place to work.” Slowly but surely, you will amass pages and pages of flip chart, detailing every topic you’ve gone over, which you’ve presented to everyone else while they slept, unless of course you’re ‘that guy’ with the ‘crazy’ personality, who seems to be lapping this shit up in an attempt to impress everyone.  You’ll do tests, you’ll practice on the piece of shit systems.  You’ll have a grand old time assessing the hot girls in your training group while bonding with your fellow male colleagues, and casting a critical eye over the totty ratio in the canteen, and critically, you’ll attempt to arrange a “night out” for your training group, which will fall hopelessly apart about a week beforehand. You’ll have a blast, and if you have any sense, at the end of your training you’ll get the fuck out of there, taking your pay for a few easy weeks of doing fuck all and screwing around with your new friends. If you’re unlucky you’ll stick around, quickly realizing how utterly fucking pointless training was, as you bumble your way through calls, asking for help on every fucking screen you come across.  Systems training wasn’t worth dick, and it’s suddenly a zillion times busier than it was in academy, now they’ve changed your skillset to reflect every fucking asshole who is able to use a telephone and mash the keys together to get through to your company. The Matrix has you now.   HUMAN RESOURCES DO NOT GIVE A FUCK ABOUT YOU Let’s get this one thing straight; Human resources (you know; the all-girl squad who sit on the top floor who are too busy to deal with your trifling little wage queries) within a Call Centre are there to deal with the ridiculous amounts of recruitment, and fuck all else.  In my early days, I went to HR because I felt I was being discriminated against by one of the big fat fuckwits who worked on the “we’ll sit here with pictures of our kids everywhere and read as many magazines as we want” magical desks at the far side of the call centre, and my very serious grievance was met with utter indifference, along the lines of “I know her personally and I can assure you that’s not something she would  do, there’s obviously been a miscommunication, really, try not to worry.”  No doubt soon after, she was off to the coffee machine to shoot the breeze with her chum from downstairs, and have a real chuckle about the attempted complaint. You see, what you need to be aware of, is that in a Call Centre everyone but you has access to HR, and goes to have chats with them, getting to know them all by name and so forth.  They aren’t going to believe your shit, unless it’s pointedly serious, with witnesses, and they have no choice.  You can see it in their eyes; “you’re paid to work on the phones and we can always get somebody else to do this piece of shit job” is written all over their faces when you voice a concern. You remember the company I worked for in my pre call centre days?  The HR department there was fucking awesome.  They even asked for pictures of my kid when he was born, remembering I had come back from paternity leave and were happy to genuinely spend time having a chat even if you were just walking past their office and the door was open.  To HR in call centres, you’re just a fucking expendable hindrance, unless you’re a Team Leader or above.
UNIONS... LOL Who the fuck thought unions for a call centre were a good idea?  I joined a union once, and guess what happened when I approached them with an issue?  They advised me to speak to my manager, then his manager, blah blah.  Hey asshole, if I felt comfortable doing that, I wouldn’t be speaking to you, would I?  Waste of fucking time.  Don’t bother, because you have no rights, because you don’t have a serious job in the eyes of the galaxy.   Folks, “I work in a call centre” instantly excludes you from partaking in any serious conversations with people in real jobs.  Understand this.  Admitting you work in a call centre to somebody is like telling them your parents are dead;  “oh, I’m sorry to hear that” is written all over their faces.  They will assume you have fucked up in life, or something has gone terribly wrong.   And frankly, they are absolutely correct. Call centres have a rich lexicon, scattered with wee pearls of wisdom which, in the outside world, would be laughed out of the fucking building if you attmepted to rationalize them to anyone with a real job.  You've all heard them; the ridiculous customer focused buzzwords and phrases, which make you die a little inside every time you have to endure them, fully aware that they're fucking bullshit.  I can assure you, these are all real. SMILE DOWN THE PHONE Fuck that shit, I used to slump in my chair and mouth “fuck you” down the phone... and still managed to sound happy.  I do not need to smile down the fucking phone.  What I need to do is convey information down the phone in a way that will send the customer away happy.  When I phone a call centre, I hate nothing more than some fucker sounding like they just opened their first Christmas present.  I want competence, not comedy.  I don't give a fuck about the person on the other end of the phone, so long as they fix my fucking problem.  They could call me a c*cksucker all day long; I just don't care.
PITCH, PACE, TONE (OR SOME SHIT) Wait, what?  I manage to communicate in everyday life without paying any fucking attention to how I speak, and I seem to get along alright.  Do you assume I suddenly turn into Forrest Gump when faced with Johnny Customer on the other end of the phone?  Fuck you.  Pace, Piss, Off. VERBAL NODS  Apparently a way for the customer to know the agent hasn't fallen fast asleep listening to your bullshit which is the same as the last hundred customers' bullshit, which consists of making rudamentary grunts or sounds randomly throughout a call to denote they're listening, and not playing Connect 4 or snap with the guy sitting next to them.  I used to get so into my verbal nodding, I would completely zone out going "uh huh" and "yes," and have no fucking clue what the problem was by the time they'd finished rambling. OBJECTION HANDLING  When the agent says “Did you know we now have this shiny new bicycle for just ten pounds a month” and the customers says “No thanks I’m disabled and wheelchair bound” and the agent says “I see but have you considered the benefits of a bicycle...” This is the epitome of Stupid Fucking Call Centre Bullshit, you are expected to “handle” three objections before giving up on the customer because hey, the customer may not realize that they actually need that shit.  Don’t assume anything.  Don’t let the fact they’ve expressly told you that they know what the insurance is, they’ve read all about it on Moneysavingexpert.com and they think it’s bullshit and would rather go to prison that take purchase anything from you, they may not know all the facts.  OBJECTION HANDLE.  It may be something which could benefit them; they just don’t know it yet. Your call is important to us.  Please  wait, our advisors cannot fucking wait to speak with the next angry  asshole who has been listening to our shitty music for ten minutes. Yeah,  we've all been there.  And do you want to know why call centres are  constantly experiencing "higher than expected call volumes?"  Well, it's  simple.  When the call start a comin', we all fuck off to the toilet.   We take a personal break, we fuck up our login on purpose so we have to  call the helpdesk and crucially, don't have to speak to you.  It's  nothing personal - it's just that taking call after call is so bitterly  demoralizing - knowing there won't be any opportunity to pause for  breath between now and the split second we'll have to mash our dialler  keys in the hope of scoring a break when we're scheduled one - that we  just snap, and give less of a fuck than at any other point during the  day.***
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Good Rehab Is Hard To Find
Pattie Vargas saw with frightening clarity that her son Joel, 25 at the time, had a life-threatening drug problem. He came home one day in 2007 “high as a kite,” went to bed and slept four days straight, Vargas, now a 65-year-old resident of Vacaville, California, recalls.
As Joel lay listless, a terrified Vargas realized her son needed help, but she didn’t quite know where to start. She searched online and dialed the number of a treatment center she found.
The person who answered said reassuring things, walked her through the options, then sent a man to lead an intervention at the family’s home in Escondido, California. The intervention ended with Joel reluctantly climbing into the guy’s car and being whisked away to residential treatment in Laguna Beach, about 60 miles away.
Vargas was relieved to see her middle child head off to treatment — even though the 30-day program cost $39,000. Little did she suspect it was only the beginning of an ultimately fruitless cycle of rehab and relapse. Joel’s drug of choice back then was methamphetamine, but by the time he died of heart complications a decade later, he was hooked on heroin.
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As Vargas later realized, there are better ways than the internet to find effective rehab. With the U.S. death rate from drug overdoses more than triple what it was 20 years ago and alcohol misuse among the top preventable causes of death, the need for effective addiction treatment is massive. But finding affordable and reliable care, despite a proliferation of rehab centers in recent years, can be nearly impossible.
“There are good providers out there. They are few and far between, and it’s really hard to tell the good from the bad,” says Garrett Hade, co-founder of The Voices Project, an addiction recovery advocacy group.
The Affordable Care Act, by expanding insurance rolls and requiring insurers to cover treatment of substance use disorders on par with other medical conditions, has helped spawn explosive growth in America’s rehab industry. Unfortunately, that includes some operators interested more in the money than the welfare of patients.
As competition has intensified, some rehab operators have resorted to wily and unscrupulous methods to draw clients. A common practice is to pay “body brokers” thousands of dollars to troll social media and sobriety meetings for insured people who need treatment.
Some facilities fraudulently sign people up for insurance, fly them to treatment centers across the country and bill tens of thousands of dollars for multiple urine tests and other services of dubious necessity. Some operators have even plied their clients with drugs between stints in rehab to recycle them back into the program.
Sue Harris, a San Diego resident, sent her son Jameson to a rehab center in West Palm Beach, Florida, on the recommendation of a “treatment coordinator.” It was the worst decision, she says. Jameson called from Florida and told her, “‘I’m going to die here, Mom. There are drugs everywhere,’” Harris, 59, recalls. He was right: He died shortly afterward from an overdose of fentanyl-laced heroin.
A less shady practice by treatment facilities is to invest in strategies to push their names to the top of internet search results. “So you are not necessarily getting the best person. You are getting the ones who have paid money for search engine optimization,” says David Skonezny, who runs a Facebook page called It’s Time For Ethics In Addiction Treatment.
So, what’s a better option for finding a reputable rehab center? Try attending meetings of recovery programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous or LifeRing. People who go to those meetings have experienced the same things you or your loved ones are going through and often share tips and advice. But beware of anybody hard-selling a specific program.
You can also call the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s 24/7 helpline (800-662-HELP), which provides information on addiction as well as referrals to treatment and support groups. A federal government website, www.findtreatment.gov, also offers referrals. If your child has a substance use disorder, the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids provides a wealth of information and support.
Once you have some promising leads, your real homework begins. You must vet them thoroughly — not only to confirm their integrity but to maximize the chance that you or your loved ones will get the personalized care needed.
To weed out bad players, search for complaints against facilities you are considering, if your state puts them online. Unfortunately, California does not — though you can see the ones with revoked or suspended licenses, as well as those operating without licenses, on the website of the Department of Health Care Services.
At this point, Google actually comes in handy: Search the facility by name, paired with red-flag terms such as “fraud,” “indicted” or “body broker.”
An alarm should sound if people running a treatment program ask about your insurance and finances right off the bat, says Cynthia Moreno Tuohy, executive director of Alexandria, Virginia-based NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals. “If I’m more concerned about the money and the insurance, don’t come to me,” she says.
And don’t be dazzled by dollar signs. “Just because it costs a lot of money, don’t think it’s great,” says Vargas, whose daughter, Rebekah, also struggles with drugs.
It wasn’t until her son was years into his meanderings through rehab that Vargas discovered public treatment programs that don’t cost anything — though they are hard to get into. In California, they are run by the counties and mostly funded by Medi-Cal, the government-run insurance program for people with low incomes.
You can find a list of county programs and contact numbers on the DHCS website under the “individuals” tab.
How do you know what kind of program is a good fit? An initial assessment is critical. Get it done by a doctor with a specialty in addiction rather than at a treatment center.
In California, you can find board-certified addiction-medicine doctors on the California Society of Addiction Medicine website. If you live elsewhere, go to the American Society of Addiction Medicine site.
Ask any potential rehab program about the credentials not only of its physicians, but also the social workers, clinical psychologists and addiction counselors on staff. You can check the addiction-specific qualifications of rehab counselors and social workers by calling NAADAC (703-741-7686), or the organization that credentials them in your state. In California, check the website of the California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals.
Another important question, recovery experts say, is whether a program endorses anti-addiction medications — it should — and is prepared to administer them in-house or through a competent outside party. Don’t let them evade that question.
And remember: Addiction is a lifelong battle. Relapses are common. There’s always hope, though for reasons difficult to ascertain, some people are better at recovery than others.
Harris says Jameson was not one of those people: “He loved his family. He loved life. But he just could not stop himself.”
This KHN story first published on California Healthline, a service of the California Health Care Foundation.
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Good Rehab Is Hard To Find
Pattie Vargas saw with frightening clarity that her son Joel, 25 at the time, had a life-threatening drug problem. He came home one day in 2007 “high as a kite,” went to bed and slept four days straight, Vargas, now a 65-year-old resident of Vacaville, California, recalls.
As Joel lay listless, a terrified Vargas realized her son needed help, but she didn’t quite know where to start. She searched online and dialed the number of a treatment center she found.
The person who answered said reassuring things, walked her through the options, then sent a man to lead an intervention at the family’s home in Escondido, California. The intervention ended with Joel reluctantly climbing into the guy’s car and being whisked away to residential treatment in Laguna Beach, about 60 miles away.
Vargas was relieved to see her middle child head off to treatment — even though the 30-day program cost $39,000. Little did she suspect it was only the beginning of an ultimately fruitless cycle of rehab and relapse. Joel’s drug of choice back then was methamphetamine, but by the time he died of heart complications a decade later, he was hooked on heroin.
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As Vargas later realized, there are better ways than the internet to find effective rehab. With the U.S. death rate from drug overdoses more than triple what it was 20 years ago and alcohol misuse among the top preventable causes of death, the need for effective addiction treatment is massive. But finding affordable and reliable care, despite a proliferation of rehab centers in recent years, can be nearly impossible.
“There are good providers out there. They are few and far between, and it’s really hard to tell the good from the bad,” says Garrett Hade, co-founder of The Voices Project, an addiction recovery advocacy group.
The Affordable Care Act, by expanding insurance rolls and requiring insurers to cover treatment of substance use disorders on par with other medical conditions, has helped spawn explosive growth in America’s rehab industry. Unfortunately, that includes some operators interested more in the money than the welfare of patients.
As competition has intensified, some rehab operators have resorted to wily and unscrupulous methods to draw clients. A common practice is to pay “body brokers” thousands of dollars to troll social media and sobriety meetings for insured people who need treatment.
Some facilities fraudulently sign people up for insurance, fly them to treatment centers across the country and bill tens of thousands of dollars for multiple urine tests and other services of dubious necessity. Some operators have even plied their clients with drugs between stints in rehab to recycle them back into the program.
Sue Harris, a San Diego resident, sent her son Jameson to a rehab center in West Palm Beach, Florida, on the recommendation of a “treatment coordinator.” It was the worst decision, she says. Jameson called from Florida and told her, “‘I’m going to die here, Mom. There are drugs everywhere,’” Harris, 59, recalls. He was right: He died shortly afterward from an overdose of fentanyl-laced heroin.
A less shady practice by treatment facilities is to invest in strategies to push their names to the top of internet search results. “So you are not necessarily getting the best person. You are getting the ones who have paid money for search engine optimization,” says David Skonezny, who runs a Facebook page called It’s Time For Ethics In Addiction Treatment.
So, what’s a better option for finding a reputable rehab center? Try attending meetings of recovery programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous or LifeRing. People who go to those meetings have experienced the same things you or your loved ones are going through and often share tips and advice. But beware of anybody hard-selling a specific program.
You can also call the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s 24/7 helpline (800-662-HELP), which provides information on addiction as well as referrals to treatment and support groups. A federal government website, www.findtreatment.gov, also offers referrals. If your child has a substance use disorder, the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids provides a wealth of information and support.
Once you have some promising leads, your real homework begins. You must vet them thoroughly — not only to confirm their integrity but to maximize the chance that you or your loved ones will get the personalized care needed.
To weed out bad players, search for complaints against facilities you are considering, if your state puts them online. Unfortunately, California does not — though you can see the ones with revoked or suspended licenses, as well as those operating without licenses, on the website of the Department of Health Care Services.
At this point, Google actually comes in handy: Search the facility by name, paired with red-flag terms such as “fraud,” “indicted” or “body broker.”
An alarm should sound if people running a treatment program ask about your insurance and finances right off the bat, says Cynthia Moreno Tuohy, executive director of Alexandria, Virginia-based NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals. “If I’m more concerned about the money and the insurance, don’t come to me,” she says.
And don’t be dazzled by dollar signs. “Just because it costs a lot of money, don’t think it’s great,” says Vargas, whose daughter, Rebekah, also struggles with drugs.
It wasn’t until her son was years into his meanderings through rehab that Vargas discovered public treatment programs that don’t cost anything — though they are hard to get into. In California, they are run by the counties and mostly funded by Medi-Cal, the government-run insurance program for people with low incomes.
You can find a list of county programs and contact numbers on the DHCS website under the “individuals” tab.
How do you know what kind of program is a good fit? An initial assessment is critical. Get it done by a doctor with a specialty in addiction rather than at a treatment center.
In California, you can find board-certified addiction-medicine doctors on the California Society of Addiction Medicine website. If you live elsewhere, go to the American Society of Addiction Medicine site.
Ask any potential rehab program about the credentials not only of its physicians, but also the social workers, clinical psychologists and addiction counselors on staff. You can check the addiction-specific qualifications of rehab counselors and social workers by calling NAADAC (703-741-7686), or the organization that credentials them in your state. In California, check the website of the California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals.
Another important question, recovery experts say, is whether a program endorses anti-addiction medications — it should — and is prepared to administer them in-house or through a competent outside party. Don’t let them evade that question.
And remember: Addiction is a lifelong battle. Relapses are common. There’s always hope, though for reasons difficult to ascertain, some people are better at recovery than others.
Harris says Jameson was not one of those people: “He loved his family. He loved life. But he just could not stop himself.”
This KHN story first published on California Healthline, a service of the California Health Care Foundation.
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The Rebellion of the Buyers
By JOE FLOWER
Did you catch that headline a few weeks back?
An official of a health system in North Carolina sent an email to the entire board of the North Carolina State Health Plan calling them a bunch of “sorry SOBs” who would “burn in hell” after they “bankrupt every hospital in the state.”
Wow. He sounds rather upset. He sounds angry and afraid. He sounds surprised, gobsmacked, face-palming.
Bless his heart. I get it, I really do. Well, I get the fear and pain. Here’s what I don’t get: the surprise, the tone of, “This came out of nowhere! Why didn’t anyone tell us this was coming?”
Brother, we did. We have been. As loudly as we can. For years.
Two things to notice here:
What is he so upset about? Under State Treasurer Dale Folwell’s leadership, the State Health Plan has pegged its payments to hospitals and other medical providers in the state to a range of roughly 200% of Medicare payments (with special help for rural hospitals and other exceptions). In an industry that routinely says that Medicare covers 90% of their costs, this actually sounds rather generous.
What is the State Health Plan? It’s not a payer, that is, an insurer. It’s a buyer. Buyers play under a different set of rules and incentives than an insurer.
Payers are not Buyers
That #2 is key: Insurers are paying for your healthcare with your money, the premiums you pay them. Under the Affordable Care Act their entire administrative cost, executive salaries, and the profit for shareholders comes out of a strictly limited percentage of the total cost. Think about that. The higher the total cost of the healthcare they buy for you, the more money to go around for executive salaries and shareholder profit. The more your healthcare costs, the better their bottom line looks. How’s that for an incentive?
Buyers, on the other hand, are paying for your healthcare with their own money and yours together. Self-funded employers, union health plans, state health plans, pension plans and other buyers pay the actual medical bills through a third-party administrator (TPA). The higher the total cost of your healthcare, the worse their bottom line looks. The lower, the better. If they can help you avoid an expensive unnecessary surgery, or get it done at a provider that charges one fourth as much, or help you get your expensive drugs at half the price or less, you will be happier and so will they.
Buyers’ incentives are closely aligned with their members, employees, and beneficiaries. As large buyers buying for thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of people they have the freedom and power to do something about those costs.
This has been the drumbeat of my books, talks, columns, articles, YouTube videos, and tweets, for years: The healthcare economy is hollow, inflated, and flammable, like the Hindenburg approaching Lakehurst in a thunderstorm. What will set it off? A rebellion of the buyers.
Analyze This
Can we analyze this for just a moment? Bear with me for a little systems analysis.
Picture healthcare as a complex adaptive system with multiple interdependent parts (hospital systems, pharmaceutical companies, device manufacturers, government payers and regulators, insurance companies and so on). Each part is busy taking in energy (mostly money) from the other parts and putting out products and services, or money to fund other parts. The input of each part is someone else’s output. The more one part puts out, the more other parts can take in.
Each part is at a local optimum. Picture this as a 3-D “fitness landscape,” where the height of each part represents its “fitness,” its ability to survive and prosper. In healthcare each part is on a tall mesa, that is, they have optimized their position over time so that they are doing as well as they possibly can in the system that exists. That’s why they operate the way they do and make the choices they make.
Think about the people who run each of these organizations. By definition, they are at the peak of their careers. They got all their training and experience, and climbed the career ladder to the C suite, by being excellent at the existing way of doing things in an industry that has not changed its fundamental structure for 40 years or more.
Not all the mesas are the same height. Some are doing very well, some not so well. But nearly all of them see a wide gulf between where they are and any other higher level of fitness that they might hope to reach, a gulf that is fraught with danger and unknowns.
This complex adaptive system is stuck in a Nash equilibrium. That is, each player, doing as well as possible for themselves in the system as it is, sees no advantage in changing the way they do things. In every direction in this fitness landscape, any change they make will see them and their organization climbing down off their mesa, their “local optimum” into a lower level of fitness, into a valley of uncertainty, into being beginners at this game.
Yet at the same time the system is more and more unbalanced, with some mesas growing ever taller, drawing in more and more energy from the other actors—the vast health insurers, the increasingly consolidated healthcare systems, the world-girdling pharmaceutical companies.
What Breaks the Stuckness?
So what moves a Nash equilibrium off of its equilibrium? Either new sources of energy, new players, or longtime players waking up to new energy and awareness and options. Today we are seeing all three.
Think of yin-yang. The more unbalanced the system becomes, the greater the energy driving any potential instability. Any complex adaptive system in an unbalanced state at a sufficiently high energy level will resolve its potentials into a more-stable lower-energy state. The greater the potential instability, the more likely the resolution will not be incremental but sudden and catastrophic.
What’s that mean? It means that the “burn in hell” guy is losing in this contest.
Why? Because of something else we can learn from systems dynamics, which is this: This disruptive resolution and rebalancing will come from the system actors who:
are the most disadvantaged,
have unified incentives,
and have the greatest freedom of action.
Who am I describing? Where do we find such system actors?
Where?
Not in the political realm. In their nature, like Obamacare, attempts at reform mostly end up being efforts to stabilize the existing system a little longer by taking the edge off some of its inequities and arbitrary cruelties. So for instance the various proposed reforms, even the most radical ones, are mostly just about making sure that everyone is covered in one way or another. No mechanisms for actual cost savings or elimination of rampant waste is contemplated beyond government fiat, which has proven a slender reed on which to depend.
Not from the healthcare providers, nor the insurers, the payers, who actually are mostly doing quite well on their ever-exaggerating mesas in the fitness landscape, drawing in more and more energy from the rest of us, and whose true incentives are to keep the imbalance going and keep costs up.
It’s the buyers, who are professionally, personally, and financially aligned with their members, beneficiaries, and employees. They have traditionally been quiescent, unaware of their power, without the knowledge, the strategies, the tools to take up their power, simply paying the bills without questioning them. All it takes is for them to wake up.
And they are waking up.
Imagine Yourself…
Put yourself in their place. Imagine you are running one of these entities, buying healthcare for tens to hundreds of thousands of people, in charge of trying to keep that budget in line and those costs down. With all the new pricing information coming out in various ways, imagine that you are contemplating the fact that MRIs in your area may vary from $400 to $2200 depending not on quality but just on the site. Or you see hospital bills that ring up a single bag of saline for $91 to $758 for no reason, for a generic item that costs less than $1 to manufacture. Or you see, as we have seen online, a young man with a rare genetic condition sharing his hospital bills on the Internet. He requires an infusion that requires an overnight hospital stay twice a month. His life circumstances have required him to move between states, change insurers, and get treated at different centers. For the exact same procedure with the exact same materials his insurers have paid from $3,319 to $20,736, while he has co-paid from $222 to $4,261.
For no reason. If you have studied quality theory, you know that variation for no reason is always a marker of damage in a system.
If you were a self-funded buyer, paying directly for medical care for your employees or beneficiaries, what would you do when confronted with these random absurd variations in cost for no reason?
You’d say, “I’ll take door number 2.”
You’d say, “Wait, who’s the chump here?”
You’d say, “This is bullshit.”
You’d say, “I will figure out what it takes to pay the lowest price possible for high quality care.”
And that’s what’s happening in 2019, facing 2020. The buyers are not buying the story anymore. They’re saying, “Show us the goods. Show us:
The cost of the whole thing, diagnosis to rehab, whatever the package might be.
The appropriateness. Does this really need to be done? How do we know? Where are the real checks in the system?
The quality. How good are you really? Show us.
The real outcomes. Not metrics you choose for your marketing. Real metrics.”
Why now?
What’s different this year is that increasingly the tools they need exist, the strategies are there and tested, and there are insurgent vendors ready to show them how to execute on the strategies.
This year and the next are likely to be a tipping point.
The huge cost of healthcare is rooted in the way we pay for healthcare in a line-item, fee-for-service, treat-to-code payment system. Fee-for-service is like taking your car’s bent fender to an auto body shop and being charged for each sheet of sandpaper, each can of Bondo, and each ounce of paint, instead of getting an overall estimate and a single bill.
So I am telegraphing the punchline here: Any serious and widespread attempt to substitute new and different payment systems based on risk and true competition through transparent bundled prices and quality of outcomes will implode today’s healthcare market.
Here Comes Everybody
The North Carolina State Health Plan is not isolated in its efforts. Similar stories are playing out in Montana, Kentucky, and other states. Haven, the amalgamation of JP Morgan Chase, Amazon, and Berkshire Hathaway, is just such a buyer with just such incentives. Giant retailers like Walmart, Kroeger, and Loews, tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, and Google, and many other large employers are waking up to their power as wholesale buyers of healthcare. Buyers across the country are using multiple strategies such reference-based pricing, bundled pricing, medical tourism, cost plus caps, even onsite, near-site and direct pay primary care. Consultants and other vendors are proliferating who are eager to help buyers of any size, even small employers, map out these strategies. None of these are yet majority practices across all buyers, but they are trending rapidly and appear to be at a major bend in the curve of adoption.
The more buyers get up on their hind legs and insist on their power as true customers, the faster that change will happen. As more buyers experience and demonstrate that they can get high quality healthcare for 10 percent, 20 percent, even 30 percent less in the system as it exists today, the more other players in the system will have to adjust, accommodate, change their pricing and cost structures, stop wasteful expensive practices and focus on providing what their customers want, need and are willing to pay for: real healthcare and real attention at a reasonable cost.
Change is gonna come.  
Joe Flower has 40 years of experience in the healthcare world and has emerged as a thought leader on the deep forces changing the system in the United States and around the world.
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The Rebellion of the Buyers
By JOE FLOWER
Did you catch that headline a few weeks back?
An official of a health system in North Carolina sent an email to the entire board of the North Carolina State Health Plan calling them a bunch of “sorry SOBs” who would “burn in hell” after they “bankrupt every hospital in the state.”
Wow. He sounds rather upset. He sounds angry and afraid. He sounds surprised, gobsmacked, face-palming.
Bless his heart. I get it, I really do. Well, I get the fear and pain. Here’s what I don’t get: the surprise, the tone of, “This came out of nowhere! Why didn’t anyone tell us this was coming?”
Brother, we did. We have been. As loudly as we can. For years.
Two things to notice here:
What is he so upset about? Under State Treasurer Dale Folwell’s leadership, the State Health Plan has pegged its payments to hospitals and other medical providers in the state to a range of roughly 200% of Medicare payments (with special help for rural hospitals and other exceptions). In an industry that routinely says that Medicare covers 90% of their costs, this actually sounds rather generous.
What is the State Health Plan? It’s not a payer, that is, an insurer. It’s a buyer. Buyers play under a different set of rules and incentives than an insurer.
Payers are not Buyers
That #2 is key: Insurers are paying for your healthcare with your money, the premiums you pay them. Under the Affordable Care Act their entire administrative cost, executive salaries, and the profit for shareholders comes out of a strictly limited percentage of the total cost. Think about that. The higher the total cost of the healthcare they buy for you, the more money to go around for executive salaries and shareholder profit. The more your healthcare costs, the better their bottom line looks. How’s that for an incentive?
Buyers, on the other hand, are paying for your healthcare with their own money and yours together. Self-funded employers, union health plans, state health plans, pension plans and other buyers pay the actual medical bills through a third-party administrator (TPA). The higher the total cost of your healthcare, the worse their bottom line looks. The lower, the better. If they can help you avoid an expensive unnecessary surgery, or get it done at a provider that charges one fourth as much, or help you get your expensive drugs at half the price or less, you will be happier and so will they.
Buyers’ incentives are closely aligned with their members, employees, and beneficiaries. As large buyers buying for thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of people they have the freedom and power to do something about those costs.
This has been the drumbeat of my books, talks, columns, articles, YouTube videos, and tweets, for years: The healthcare economy is hollow, inflated, and flammable, like the Hindenburg approaching Lakehurst in a thunderstorm. What will set it off? A rebellion of the buyers.
Analyze This
Can we analyze this for just a moment? Bear with me for a little systems analysis.
Picture healthcare as a complex adaptive system with multiple interdependent parts (hospital systems, pharmaceutical companies, device manufacturers, government payers and regulators, insurance companies and so on). Each part is busy taking in energy (mostly money) from the other parts and putting out products and services, or money to fund other parts. The input of each part is someone else’s output. The more one part puts out, the more other parts can take in.
Each part is at a local optimum. Picture this as a 3-D “fitness landscape,” where the height of each part represents its “fitness,” its ability to survive and prosper. In healthcare each part is on a tall mesa, that is, they have optimized their position over time so that they are doing as well as they possibly can in the system that exists. That’s why they operate the way they do and make the choices they make.
Think about the people who run each of these organizations. By definition, they are at the peak of their careers. They got all their training and experience, and climbed the career ladder to the C suite, by being excellent at the existing way of doing things in an industry that has not changed its fundamental structure for 40 years or more.
Not all the mesas are the same height. Some are doing very well, some not so well. But nearly all of them see a wide gulf between where they are and any other higher level of fitness that they might hope to reach, a gulf that is fraught with danger and unknowns.
This complex adaptive system is stuck in a Nash equilibrium. That is, each player, doing as well as possible for themselves in the system as it is, sees no advantage in changing the way they do things. In every direction in this fitness landscape, any change they make will see them and their organization climbing down off their mesa, their “local optimum” into a lower level of fitness, into a valley of uncertainty, into being beginners at this game.
Yet at the same time the system is more and more unbalanced, with some mesas growing ever taller, drawing in more and more energy from the other actors—the vast health insurers, the increasingly consolidated healthcare systems, the world-girdling pharmaceutical companies.
What Breaks the Stuckness?
So what moves a Nash equilibrium off of its equilibrium? Either new sources of energy, new players, or longtime players waking up to new energy and awareness and options. Today we are seeing all three.
Think of yin-yang. The more unbalanced the system becomes, the greater the energy driving any potential instability. Any complex adaptive system in an unbalanced state at a sufficiently high energy level will resolve its potentials into a more-stable lower-energy state. The greater the potential instability, the more likely the resolution will not be incremental but sudden and catastrophic.
What’s that mean? It means that the “burn in hell” guy is losing in this contest.
Why? Because of something else we can learn from systems dynamics, which is this: This disruptive resolution and rebalancing will come from the system actors who:
are the most disadvantaged,
have unified incentives,
and have the greatest freedom of action.
Who am I describing? Where do we find such system actors?
Where?
Not in the political realm. In their nature, like Obamacare, attempts at reform mostly end up being efforts to stabilize the existing system a little longer by taking the edge off some of its inequities and arbitrary cruelties. So for instance the various proposed reforms, even the most radical ones, are mostly just about making sure that everyone is covered in one way or another. No mechanisms for actual cost savings or elimination of rampant waste is contemplated beyond government fiat, which has proven a slender reed on which to depend.
Not from the healthcare providers, nor the insurers, the payers, who actually are mostly doing quite well on their ever-exaggerating mesas in the fitness landscape, drawing in more and more energy from the rest of us, and whose true incentives are to keep the imbalance going and keep costs up.
It’s the buyers, who are professionally, personally, and financially aligned with their members, beneficiaries, and employees. They have traditionally been quiescent, unaware of their power, without the knowledge, the strategies, the tools to take up their power, simply paying the bills without questioning them. All it takes is for them to wake up.
And they are waking up.
Imagine Yourself…
Put yourself in their place. Imagine you are running one of these entities, buying healthcare for tens to hundreds of thousands of people, in charge of trying to keep that budget in line and those costs down. With all the new pricing information coming out in various ways, imagine that you are contemplating the fact that MRIs in your area may vary from $400 to $2200 depending not on quality but just on the site. Or you see hospital bills that ring up a single bag of saline for $91 to $758 for no reason, for a generic item that costs less than $1 to manufacture. Or you see, as we have seen online, a young man with a rare genetic condition sharing his hospital bills on the Internet. He requires an infusion that requires an overnight hospital stay twice a month. His life circumstances have required him to move between states, change insurers, and get treated at different centers. For the exact same procedure with the exact same materials his insurers have paid from $3,319 to $20,736, while he has co-paid from $222 to $4,261.
For no reason. If you have studied quality theory, you know that variation for no reason is always a marker of damage in a system.
If you were a self-funded buyer, paying directly for medical care for your employees or beneficiaries, what would you do when confronted with these random absurd variations in cost for no reason?
You’d say, “I’ll take door number 2.”
You’d say, “Wait, who’s the chump here?”
You’d say, “This is bullshit.”
You’d say, “I will figure out what it takes to pay the lowest price possible for high quality care.”
And that’s what’s happening in 2019, facing 2020. The buyers are not buying the story anymore. They’re saying, “Show us the goods. Show us:
The cost of the whole thing, diagnosis to rehab, whatever the package might be.
The appropriateness. Does this really need to be done? How do we know? Where are the real checks in the system?
The quality. How good are you really? Show us.
The real outcomes. Not metrics you choose for your marketing. Real metrics.”
Why now?
What’s different this year is that increasingly the tools they need exist, the strategies are there and tested, and there are insurgent vendors ready to show them how to execute on the strategies.
This year and the next are likely to be a tipping point.
The huge cost of healthcare is rooted in the way we pay for healthcare in a line-item, fee-for-service, treat-to-code payment system. Fee-for-service is like taking your car’s bent fender to an auto body shop and being charged for each sheet of sandpaper, each can of Bondo, and each ounce of paint, instead of getting an overall estimate and a single bill.
So I am telegraphing the punchline here: Any serious and widespread attempt to substitute new and different payment systems based on risk and true competition through transparent bundled prices and quality of outcomes will implode today’s healthcare market.
Here Comes Everybody
The North Carolina State Health Plan is not isolated in its efforts. Similar stories are playing out in Montana, Kentucky, and other states. Haven, the amalgamation of JP Morgan Chase, Amazon, and Berkshire Hathaway, is just such a buyer with just such incentives. Giant retailers like Walmart, Kroeger, and Loews, tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, and Google, and many other large employers are waking up to their power as wholesale buyers of healthcare. Buyers across the country are using multiple strategies such reference-based pricing, bundled pricing, medical tourism, cost plus caps, even onsite, near-site and direct pay primary care. Consultants and other vendors are proliferating who are eager to help buyers of any size, even small employers, map out these strategies. None of these are yet majority practices across all buyers, but they are trending rapidly and appear to be at a major bend in the curve of adoption.
The more buyers get up on their hind legs and insist on their power as true customers, the faster that change will happen. As more buyers experience and demonstrate that they can get high quality healthcare for 10 percent, 20 percent, even 30 percent less in the system as it exists today, the more other players in the system will have to adjust, accommodate, change their pricing and cost structures, stop wasteful expensive practices and focus on providing what their customers want, need and are willing to pay for: real healthcare and real attention at a reasonable cost.
Change is gonna come.  
Joe Flower has 40 years of experience in the healthcare world and has emerged as a thought leader on the deep forces changing the system in the United States and around the world.
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Couples Inpatient Drug Rehab Montana Addiction Treatment
Informational Page: Going to Rehab Together
Both the American Medical Association (AMA) and the World Health Business (WHO) specify drug addiction (likewise called compound use condition or dependence syndrome) as a “ruthless brain illness”. Put simply, according to a few of the biggest and most popular health companies worldwide, addiction is not your fault. That is not to state, however, that you are powerless to dominate it.
Drug abuse over a prolonged amount of time changes the natural chemistry of the brain, and as quickly as dependence has in truth ingrained in, it will take a lasting dedication to recover and stay sober. In order to attain healing, you should initially understand the nature of addiction, how it takes place, how it affects your body and mind, and how it can be treated. Addiction can be dealt with nevertheless generally needs a bargain of dedication and determination on your part, in addition to the help of skilled experts and therapists to help you through.
This post will describe the nature of addiction and its causes, in addition to the different treatment choices quickly available. For those of you who are trying to assist an enjoyed one to attain sobriety, intervention stays in some cases required to assist the compound abuser to take useful action and battle the power that addiction holds over them
.If you are fighting drug addiction yourself, continue having a look at; it is time for you to decide that will change your life, and possibly even save it. The main step of the procedure will be at least a week of detox to rid your body of the hazardous physical reliance it has actually formed to prohibited substances.
Montana Couples Rehab
Couple’s steps to Sobriety
The information actions of an individual’s addiction rehabilitation process will definitely vary according to the kind of addiction, the treatment strategy used, and also the specific seeking rehab. Nevertheless, all recovery treatments tend to share certain essential elements:
Admission 
 Detox
Recovery (rehabilitation).
Ongoing Recuperation.
Sober living / Halfway house
Intervention Team: What to know before 
An intervention is a structured discussion in between liked ones and an addict, often watched on by an intervention specialist. Dependable interventions can help liked among an addict to expose their experiences constructively.If just talking with the individual with the issue does not work, a group intervention works next action. Interventions similarly expose addicts how their actions affect those they worth. The goal is to help the individual is having a tough time to take part in addiction recovery and rehab.
  Detoxing Together
The primary action of the recovery journey is detox. Usually described as the most challenging stage of recovery, detox is the treatment of your brain and body ridding themselves of their physical reliance to unlawful compounds.
As quickly as you have in fact genuinely become physically relying on drugs, your brain and body no longer bear in mind how to work normally without them. When you begin the detox treatment and abstain from utilizing, your body will be tossed into an abrupt and major imbalance, a baffled state triggered by its reliance on the existence and outcomes of drugs. This chemical and physical imbalance develops a series of signs called withdrawal symptoms.
Drug Detox: Is it needed?
On the one hand, going through drug detox is inevitable. No matter how you select to do so or where you are, as rapidly as you stop utilizing, your body will go through drug withdrawal. The term detox just describes handling the withdrawal check in a healthy strategy and permitting the withdrawal treatment to run its course.
Due to the truth that of the pain and distress of withdrawal, various drug treatment and treatment procedures can not be repaired throughout this phase. It describes managing the withdrawal signs and staying sober sufficient time for the body to shed its physical dependence on drugs and return a common, healthy balance. As rapidly as this treatment remains in general, you will be all set for a harder drug treatment program.
Montana Inpatient Rehab Programs for Couples
Inpatient, or residential, drug treatment needs that the individual receiving treatment for reliances or drug abuse, living in a center for a designated length of time. Inpatient treatment may be either fast or long term relying on the requirements and circumstance of the person. Both structures consist of similar therapies. Inpatient treatment does not include cleaning, as that generally happens in a health care facility environment.
Although inpatient treatment can happen in a health care center environment, for the majority of the parts a residential setting is typical, utilizing 24-hour care and help. The most normal approach of treatment is a healing location, including the personnel and other customers, focusing on assisting the particular identify the sources and conditions that result in substance abuse. Treatment is likewise utilized.
Advantages of  Inpatient Rehab for Couples
The primary benefit of couples inpatient treatment is access to the therapeutic community. Clients are immersed in a recovery environment in which all are devoted to breaking the addiction. The most successful programs that do not have a set time for release, and develop treatment programs that are tailored to the requirements of the client. During inpatient care, clients establish healing and life skills and start to enhance their function in everyday life.
Programs can consist of:
Comprehensive examination and treatment planning
24-hour nursing supervisionMedication management
Meeting with a psychiatric service provider one or more times a week
A community meeting group
Ongoing evaluation of treatment goals
Individual therapy
Recreational therapy, such as meditation and yoga
Aftercare and discharge planning (an essential element in this level of care)
Everyday group therapy, including specialized groups and peer groups.
 Subjects might include:
Substance abuse
Introduction to the 12-step program
Grief and loss
Sexuality
Trauma survival
Self-esteemFamily patterns
Assertiveness
Interpersonal relationships
 Outpatient Addiction Treatment for Couples- Choose Carefully.
Outpatient treatment for substance abuse can be the very best choice if you have the motivation to get sober however can’t leave from work, interrupt school presence or step far from other duties in order to remain at an inpatient rehab center. Nevertheless the most reliable treatment– whether a residential program or outpatient drug rehab– in fact depends upon the strength of your drug abuse and whether you’re also experiencing related medical or psychological illness. Addiction to alcohol or other drugs is thought of a spectrum condition, showing the condition can be categorized as moderate, moderate or severe.
A Montana Couples outpatient rehab programs work best for those with moderate or moderate drug abuse symptoms.
An inpatient program is a far better ideal for people on the more extreme end of the spectrum together with those with co-occurring disorders such as stress and anxiety, stress and anxiety or injury.
 Types of Outpatient Rehab Programs Available 
Outpatient drug rehab programs differ in a variety of days per week and hours each day of presence. The best outpatient program depends on your treatment needs. Below are the 3 most typical outpatient options:
Day Treatment
Also referred to as partial hospitalization, this is the highest level of outpatient alcohol and drug rehab, typically meeting 5 to seven days a week for around 6 hours a day. Some individuals begin drug rehab in day treatment and others shift into this level of care after completing inpatient addiction treatment.
Intensive Outpatient Treatment Program (IOP).
Comprehensive outpatient programs are usually utilized at a range of times to accommodate busy schedules. Day and night alternatives offer participants a chance to continue with work, participate in school or look after obligations in your house. Some individuals start treatment in comprehensive outpatient and others shift in from an inpatient or day program
Continuing Care Groups.
Sometimes described as aftercare, these therapy groups usually meet one day a week. Various are specific to a specific customer population, such as guys or women, older grownups, healthcare professionals or people with opioid addiction.
What are the main benefits of attending an outpatient program?
Less Commitment: On average, outpatient care requires less time and money to complete.
Greater Privacy: As outpatient rehab allows you to keep up with your daily life, you will likely not have to disclose to employers or friends that you are receiving treatment.
Greater Autonomy: In outpatient care, you hold yourself accountable on a daily basis, but can receive medical support when needed.
Collective Support: Individual counseling, along with group and family therapy, will help you build your network of supporters and stay strong in sobriety.
Main ask Inpatient Vs. Outpatient Care?
There are a variety of differences in between inpatient and outpatient care. Inpatient care is a more serious level of care than outpatient care, which is usually an action down from inpatient care. Unlike inpatient care, outpatient treatment does not need clients to stay over night. Customers can stress over the center often (daily, weekly, and so on) for a set range of hours a week, and go house after their session. This enables them to keep their work schedule and tend to any other off-site commitments. Care is less significant than the inpatient level, as customers normally no longer requirement day-and-night care.
  Feel free to ask any of our expert staff which treatment is right for you.
   Sober living for Couples
A trusted rehab program can leave you feeling that your life has really in reality been modified on all levels. While the changes in your body, mind, and spirit can be thorough, they will not last if you return to your dangerous concepts and practices. Aftercare services assist you to keep the coping capabilities you found in rehab, so you can continue to establish the healthy, gratifying life you want after you complete from a healing program. Even for individuals who are committed to recovery, relapse after rehab is more like the rule than the exception.
According to Psychology of Addicting Practices, relapse rates amongst adults and teens who have really wound up a rehab program are as high as 80 percentMost stats discuss that relapse rates among individuals with consuming conditions are merely as difficult, with approximately half returning to their old regimens within the very first year of healing.
Whether you’re coping with alcohol addiction, prescription drug abuse, marijuana dependence, or an eating condition, research studies expose that relapse is a typical indicator of addictive regimens. In the period after rehab, aftercare services supply important support to help you to stay on track with your healing objectives.
The functions of Sober Living
The function of aftercare isn’t merely to keep you from drinking, using drugs, or going back to harmful consuming practices. The ultimate function is to keep you participated in recovery as you make the shift from rehab to truth. For some people, this may recommend preventing addicting behavior totally. Others may go back to their old practices. As you deal with the issues of a sober life, aftercare services can assist you in the following approaches:
By assisting you to make healthy options about your way of life, activities, and relationships
By enhancing the skills you discovered for handling stress and strong feelings
By mentoring you how to identify your own triggers and prevent a relapse
By mentoring you how to reduce the damage of a relapse if you do slip back into ravaging behavior
By providing you access to helping individuals and groups who can help you through the healing process
If you’re looking for a rehab facility on your own or take pleasure in one, choosing a center with a strong aftercare program ought to be one of the most essential parts of your option. Noted below are a few of the most essential resources and services to try to find.
FIND THE HELP TODAY
By now you understand that there are a lot of impressive programs that assist individuals effectively accomplish abstaining. Discovering the absolute finest of the best requires that you do a little substantial research study to find the strategy that various centers take in their treatment programs. Some components to inquire about consist of:
Therapy techniques (e.g., the amount of group vs. specific sessions; specific behavioral restorative methods used, such as CBT, MI, etc.).
Does the outpatient program provide particular treatment medications, if required?
How the program adjusts to the altering requirements of the client.
Does the program take a health-centered method that handles all aspects of patient health?
  Ask your local doctor today!
Finding a Montana couples drug rehab for you and your partner can be achieved by calling our couples rehabs 24/7 helpline.
The best couples rehabilitation centers in Montana  use a no-cost insurance protection evaluation over the phone and let you and your partner comprehend what kind of security you have for addiction treatment.
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Homeless Community of St. Joseph, MO
They've lost their homes they've lost their tasks not all most communities number the homeless at around one percent of their population homelessness affects guys females and kids and is often dismissed as someone else's problem st. Joseph's is no exception some are battling mental disorder some have been hit by a sluggish economy or foreclosures others are homeless by option so who makes up our homeless like pappi a number of the homeless in our town are veterans I broke down and I was available in town and I met expense which is black heart I was on the streets with him he's off the streets now but he's one of the fortunate ones the Veterans Administration reports million veterans are homeless eventually each year in the u.s.
Blackhawk helped Pappy turn his life around which's frequently the case banding together to take care of their own however it's not constantly adequate how is the city of st. Joseph working to combat homelessness the continuum care coalition utilizes a multi million dollar federal HUD grant to provide crucial services to those in requirement it states the majority of st.
Joseph ´ s homeless face a variety of barriers keeping them on the streets but say the most apparent answer is generally the secret to rehab what we need to do truthfully everybody get together in this town start looking for locations to live regional emergency situation shelters include the Salvation Army the YWCA and the cold-weather shelter over 200 people are in permanent supportive real estate sponsored by Catholic Charities and the YW in 2006 neighborhood missions open the Haven and then a few years later Judah home as soon as housing is discovered what's next even with assistance the shift can be difficult the Missouri Department of Mental Health sponsors a program called shelter Plus that program requires the private to take part in therapy and Rehab in exchange for a location to live Andy was on the street for 10 years of his young life got tired of being on the streets just want to change it once a want change but while some wish to alter some choose to be homeless with their whole life in a backpack they live near the river in improvised shelters made from crates or squat unlawfully in vacant properties why would anybody select this life for the lake Blackhawk it was about the flexibility the river was his house and the people everybody supervises everybody were a tight family but this choice is not without risk we help each other out and do what we can to keep in simply the previous year our homeless community has seen two murders numerous thefts and assaults we've come to the conclusion that the idle time of not doing anything is where all of us get in trouble if we do not have something to do we will find something to do it's not constantly excellent catch established a day Center for the homeless to assist integrate them into the mainstream through a new task called rags to riches the making and selling of rag carpets simply for them to enjoy that shift take place here's some old rags that were ineffective they were getting rid of disposed of and that's become woven back together like they would in society and now helpful once again and good-looking and and efficient he states the best way to help is to have an open mind and an open heart to love on them rather of judge them or attempt to find out why they're here we're just attempting to assist them move you understand to any place they wish to go me to start with I wish to be part of the daily working people.  
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Homeless Community of St. Joseph, MO
They've lost their houses they've lost their tasks not all most neighborhoods number the homeless at around one percent of their population homelessness affects guys ladies and kids and is typically dismissed as someone else's problem st. Joseph's is no exception some are battling mental disorder some have been struck by a slow economy or foreclosures others are homeless by choice so who comprises our homeless like pappi much of the homeless in our town are veterans I broke down and I can be found in town and I fulfilled expense which is black heart I was on the streets with him he's off the streets now but he's one of the fortunate ones the Veterans Administration reports million veterans are homeless at some time each year in the u.s.
Blackhawk assisted Pappy turn his life around which's typically the case banding together to look after their own but it's not always enough how is the city of st. Joseph working to combat homelessness the continuum care union makes use of a multi million dollar federal HUD grant to provide essential services to those in need it says the majority of st.
Joseph ´ s homeless face a number of barriers keeping them on the streets but state the most apparent answer is usually the secret to rehabilitation what we require to do honestly everyone get together in this town begin trying to find places to live regional emergency shelters consist of the Salvation Army the YWCA and the cold-weather shelter over 200 people remain in long-term helpful housing sponsored by Catholic Charities and the YW in 2006 neighborhood objectives open the Haven and after that a couple of years later on Judah house as soon as housing is discovered what's next even with aid the shift can be difficult the Missouri Department of Mental Health sponsors a program called shelter Plus that program requires the private to participate in therapy and Rehab in exchange for a location to live Andy was on the street for ten years of his young life got tired of being on the streets simply want to alter it when a desire change but while some want to change some choose to be homeless with their whole life in a backpack they live near the river in improvised shelters made from crates or squat illegally in uninhabited homes why would anybody choose this life for the lake Blackhawk it was about the liberty the river was his house and individuals everybody monitors everybody were a tight household however this choice is not without risk we assist each other out and do what we can to keep in just the previous year our homeless community has seen 2 murders several thefts and assaults we've pertained to the conclusion that the idle time of not doing anything is where we all get in trouble if we do not have something to do we will discover something to do it's not always excellent catch established a day Center for the homeless to help integrate them into the mainstream through a brand-new task called rags to riches the making and selling of rag carpets simply for them to see that shift take place here's some old rags that were useless they were throwing away discarded which's ended up being woven back together like they would in society and now helpful again and good-looking and and efficient he states the very best method to assist is to have an open mind and an open heart to like on them instead of judge them or attempt to figure out why they're here we're just attempting to assist them move you understand to anywhere they wish to go me to start with I wish to belong to the daily working people.  
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Benzoylmethylecgonine
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Couples Inpatient Drug Rehab North Dakota Addiction Treatment
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Both the American Medical Association (AMA) and the World Health Business (WHO) define drug addiction (also called substance use condition or dependence syndrome) as a “relentless brain health problem”. Put simply, according to a few of the largest and most popular health organizations in the world, addiction is not your fault. That is not to say, however, that you are powerless to dominate it.
Drug abuse over a prolonged amount of time changes the natural chemistry of the brain, and as quickly as dependence has in fact embedded in, it will take a lasting commitment to recuperate and stay sober. In order to achieve healing, you should initially comprehend the nature of addiction, how it happens, how it impacts your mind and body, and how it can be treated. Addiction can be handled however usually needs a good deal of commitment and determination on your part, in addition to the assistance of proficient specialists and therapists to help you through.
This post will explain the nature of addiction and its causes, in addition to the different treatment options easily available. For those of you who are trying to help a taken pleasure in one to attain sobriety, intervention stays in some cases required to help the compound abuser to take beneficial action and battle the power that addiction holds over them.
If you are fighting drug addiction yourself, continue checking out; it is time for you to decide that will change your life, and perhaps even save it. The primary step of the procedure will be at least a week of detox to rid your body of the dangerous physical dependence it has actually formed to illegal compounds.
North Dakota Couples Rehab
Sobriety as a Couple
The information actions of an individual’s addiction rehabilitation process will definitely vary according to the kind of addiction, the treatment strategy used, and also the specific seeking rehab. Nevertheless, all recovery treatments tend to share certain essential elements:
Intake 
 Detox
Recovery (rehabilitation).
Ongoing Recuperation.
Sober living / Halfway house
Intervention Team: Important Information
An intervention is a structured conversation in between liked ones and an addict, often kept an eye on by an intervention expert. Reliable interventions can assist liked among an addict to expose their experiences constructively.
If just talking with the individual with the concern does not work, a group intervention works next action. Interventions likewise expose addicts how their actions impact those they worth. The objective is to assist the individual is having a tough time to participate in addiction healing and rehabilitation.
  Detoxing in Rehab Together
The primary action of the recovery journey is detox. Typically referred to as the most difficult phase of recovery, detox is the treatment of your brain and body ridding themselves of their physical dependence to illegal substances. As rapidly as you have actually truly become physically depending upon drugs, your brain and body no longer bear in mind how to work generally without them. When you begin the detox procedure and abstain from using, your body will be tossed into a sudden and major imbalance, a baffled state triggered by its reliance on the presence and outcomes of drugs. This chemical and physical imbalance develops a series of signs called withdrawal symptoms.
Drug Detox: Is it Necessary?
On the one hand, going through drug detox is inescapable. No matter how you choose to do so or where you are, as quickly as you stop using, your body will go through drug withdrawal. The term detox merely describes handling the withdrawal check in a healthy technique and permitting the withdrawal procedure to run its course.
Due to the fact that of the pain and distress of withdrawal, various drug treatment and treatment procedures cannot be repaired throughout this phase. It refers to handling the withdrawal signs and remaining sober enough time for the body to shed its physical reliance on drugs and get back a typical, healthy balance. As rapidly as this treatment is overall, you will be all set for a harder drug treatment program.
Inpatient Rehab Programs for Couples in North Dakota
Inpatient, or residential, drug treatment requires that the individual receiving treatment for reliances or substance abuse, living in a center for a designated length of time. Inpatient treatment might be either quick or long term depending upon the requirements and situation of the individual. Both structures include comparable therapies. Inpatient treatment does not include cleaning, as that normally happens in a health care facility environment.
Although inpatient treatment can take place in a healthcare facility environment, for most of the parts a residential setting is normal, using 24-hour care and assistance. The most typical method of treatment is a healing area, including the staff and other consumers, focusing on assisting the specific identify the sources and conditions that result in drug abuse. Treatment is similarly used.
Benefits of Inpatient Rehab for Couples
The primary benefit of couples inpatient treatment is access to the therapeutic community. Clients are immersed in a recovery environment in which all are devoted to breaking the addiction. The most successful programs that do not have a set time for release, and develop treatment programs that are tailored to the requirements of the client. During inpatient care, clients establish healing and life skills and start to enhance their function in everyday life.
Programs can consist of:
Comprehensive examination and treatment planning
24-hour nursing supervisionMedication management
Meeting with a psychiatric service provider one or more times a week
A community meeting group
Ongoing evaluation of treatment goals
Individual therapy
Recreational therapy, such as meditation and yoga
Aftercare and discharge planning (an essential element in this level of care)
Everyday group therapy, including specialized groups and peer groups.
 Topics might include:
Substance abuse
Introduction to the 12-step program
Grief and loss
Sexuality
Trauma survival
Self-esteemFamily patterns
Assertiveness
Interpersonal relationships
 Outpatient Addiction Treatment for Couples- Is it right for you?
Outpatient treatment for substance abuse can be the very best choice if you have the motivation to get sober however can’t leave from work, interrupt school presence or step far from other duties in order to stay at an inpatient rehab center. However the most credible treatment– whether a residential program or outpatient drug rehab– in truth depends upon the strength of your drug abuse and whether you’re likewise experiencing related medical or mental health problems. Addiction to alcohol or other drugs is thought about a spectrum condition, showing the condition can be classified as moderate, moderate or severe.
A North Dakota Couples outpatient rehab programs work best for those with moderate or moderate substance abuse symptoms.
An inpatient program is a far better ideal for people on the more extreme end of the spectrum together with those with co-occurring disorders such as stress and anxiety, stress and anxiety or injury.
 Types of Outpatient Rehab Programs Available 
Outpatient drug rehab programs differ in a variety of days per week and hours each day of presence. The best outpatient program depends on your treatment needs. Below are the 3 most typical outpatient options:
Day Treatment
Also referred to as partial hospitalization, this is the highest level of outpatient alcohol and drug rehab, typically meeting 5 to seven days a week for around 6 hours a day. Some individuals begin drug rehab in day treatment and others shift into this level of care after completing inpatient addiction treatment.
Intensive Outpatient Treatment Program (IOP).
Comprehensive outpatient programs are normally used at a range of times to accommodate hectic schedules. Day and night options provide participants a chance to continue with work, participate in school or look after obligations in your home. Some individuals begin treatment in comprehensive outpatient and others shift in from an inpatient or day program
Continuing Care Groups.
Sometimes described as aftercare, these therapy groups usually meet one day a week. Various are specific to a specific customer population, such as guys or women, older grownups, healthcare professionals or people with opioid addiction.
What are the main benefits of attending an outpatient program?
Less Commitment: On average, outpatient care requires less time and money to complete.
Greater Privacy: As outpatient rehab allows you to keep up with your daily life, you will likely not have to disclose to employers or friends that you are receiving treatment.
Greater Autonomy: In outpatient care, you hold yourself accountable on a daily basis, but can receive medical support when needed.
Collective Support: Individual counseling, along with group and family therapy, will help you build your network of supporters and stay strong in sobriety.
Main ask Inpatient Vs. Outpatient Care?
There are a number of differences in between inpatient and outpatient care. Inpatient care is a more severe level of care than outpatient care, which is typically an action down from inpatient care. Unlike inpatient care, outpatient treatment does not need customers to stay overnight. Consumers can worry about the center frequently (daily, weekly, and so on) for a set range of hours a week, and go home after their session. This enables them to keep their work schedule and tend to any other off-site obligations. Care is less substantial than the inpatient level, as clients usually no longer requirement day-and-night care.
Feel free to ask any of our expert staff which treatment is right for you.
   Sober living for Couples
A reputable rehab program can leave you feeling that your life has actually in truth been modified on all levels. While the changes in your body, mind, and spirit can be thorough, they will not last if you return to your hazardous ideas and habits. Aftercare services assist you keep the coping capabilities you found in rehab, so you can continue to develop the healthy, satisfying life you desire after you complete from a healing program. Even for individuals who are devoted to recovery, relapse after rehab is more like the rule than the exception. According to Psychology of Addicting Practices, relapse rates amongst adults and teens who have actually ended up a rehab program are as high as 80 percent
Most statistics mention that relapse rates amongst individuals with consuming conditions are simply as hard, with roughly half returning to their old routines within the very first year of healing.
Whether you’re coping alcoholism, prescription substance abuse, marijuana dependence, or an eating condition, research studies expose that relapse is a common indicator of addicting routines. In the period after rehab, aftercare services supply valuable assistance to assist you to stay on track with your recovery goals.
The functions of Sober Living
The function of aftercare isn’t merely to keep you from drinking, using drugs, or going back to harmful consuming practices. The ultimate function is to keep you participated in recovery as you make the shift from rehab to truth. For some people, this may recommend preventing addicting behavior totally. Others may go back to their old practices. As you deal with the issues of a sober life, aftercare services can assist you in the following approaches:
By assisting you to make healthy options about your way of life, activities, and relationships
By enhancing the skills you discovered for handling stress and strong feelings
By mentoring you how to identify your own triggers and prevent a relapse
By mentoring you how to reduce the damage of a relapse if you do slip back into ravaging behavior
By providing you access to helping individuals and groups who can help you through the healing process
If you’re looking for a rehab facility on your own or take pleasure in one, choosing a center with a strong aftercare program ought to be one of the most essential parts of your option. Noted below are a few of the most essential resources and services to try to find.
FIND THE HELP TODAY
By now you understand that there are a lot of remarkable programs that help individuals effectively accomplish abstinence. Discovering the absolute best of the very best requires that you do a little substantial research study to discover the technique that various centers take in their treatment programs. Some elements to ask about consist of:
Therapy techniques (e.g., the amount of group vs. specific sessions; specific behavioral restorative methods used, such as CBT, MI, etc.).
Does the outpatient program provide particular treatment medications, if required?
How the program adjust to the altering requirements of the client.
Does the program take a health-centered method that handles all aspects of patient health.
  Ask your local doctor today!
Finding a North Dakota couples drug rehab for you and your partner can be achieved by calling our couples rehabs 24/7 helpline.
The best couples rehabilitation centers in North Dakota use a no-cost insurance protection evaluation over the phone and let you and your partner comprehend what kind of security you have for addiction treatment.
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The Rebellion of the Buyers
By JOE FLOWER
Did you catch that headline a few weeks back?
An official of a health system in North Carolina sent an email to the entire board of the North Carolina State Health Plan calling them a bunch of “sorry SOBs” who would “burn in hell” after they “bankrupt every hospital in the state.”
Wow. He sounds rather upset. He sounds angry and afraid. He sounds surprised, gobsmacked, face-palming.
Bless his heart. I get it, I really do. Well, I get the fear and pain. Here’s what I don’t get: the surprise, the tone of, “This came out of nowhere! Why didn’t anyone tell us this was coming?”
Brother, we did. We have been. As loudly as we can. For years.
Two things to notice here:
What is he so upset about? Under State Treasurer Dale Folwell’s leadership, the State Health Plan has pegged its payments to hospitals and other medical providers in the state to a range of roughly 200% of Medicare payments (with special help for rural hospitals and other exceptions). In an industry that routinely says that Medicare covers 90% of their costs, this actually sounds rather generous.
What is the State Health Plan? It’s not a payer, that is, an insurer. It’s a buyer. Buyers play under a different set of rules and incentives than an insurer.
Payers are not Buyers
That #2 is key: Insurers are paying for your healthcare with your money, the premiums you pay them. Under the Affordable Care Act their entire administrative cost, executive salaries, and the profit for shareholders comes out of a strictly limited percentage of the total cost. Think about that. The higher the total cost of the healthcare they buy for you, the more money to go around for executive salaries and shareholder profit. The more your healthcare costs, the better their bottom line looks. How’s that for an incentive?
Buyers, on the other hand, are paying for your healthcare with their own money and yours together. Self-funded employers, union health plans, state health plans, pension plans and other buyers pay the actual medical bills through a third-party administrator (TPA). The higher the total cost of your healthcare, the worse their bottom line looks. The lower, the better. If they can help you avoid an expensive unnecessary surgery, or get it done at a provider that charges one fourth as much, or help you get your expensive drugs at half the price or less, you will be happier and so will they.
Buyers’ incentives are closely aligned with their members, employees, and beneficiaries. As large buyers buying for thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of people they have the freedom and power to do something about those costs.
This has been the drumbeat of my books, talks, columns, articles, YouTube videos, and tweets, for years: The healthcare economy is hollow, inflated, and flammable, like the Hindenburg approaching Lakehurst in a thunderstorm. What will set it off? A rebellion of the buyers.
Analyze This
Can we analyze this for just a moment? Bear with me for a little systems analysis.
Picture healthcare as a complex adaptive system with multiple interdependent parts (hospital systems, pharmaceutical companies, device manufacturers, government payers and regulators, insurance companies and so on). Each part is busy taking in energy (mostly money) from the other parts and putting out products and services, or money to fund other parts. The input of each part is someone else’s output. The more one part puts out, the more other parts can take in.
Each part is at a local optimum. Picture this as a 3-D “fitness landscape,” where the height of each part represents its “fitness,” its ability to survive and prosper. In healthcare each part is on a tall mesa, that is, they have optimized their position over time so that they are doing as well as they possibly can in the system that exists. That’s why they operate the way they do and make the choices they make.
Think about the people who run each of these organizations. By definition, they are at the peak of their careers. They got all their training and experience, and climbed the career ladder to the C suite, by being excellent at the existing way of doing things in an industry that has not changed its fundamental structure for 40 years or more.
Not all the mesas are the same height. Some are doing very well, some not so well. But nearly all of them see a wide gulf between where they are and any other higher level of fitness that they might hope to reach, a gulf that is fraught with danger and unknowns.
This complex adaptive system is stuck in a Nash equilibrium. That is, each player, doing as well as possible for themselves in the system as it is, sees no advantage in changing the way they do things. In every direction in this fitness landscape, any change they make will see them and their organization climbing down off their mesa, their “local optimum” into a lower level of fitness, into a valley of uncertainty, into being beginners at this game.
Yet at the same time the system is more and more unbalanced, with some mesas growing ever taller, drawing in more and more energy from the other actors—the vast health insurers, the increasingly consolidated healthcare systems, the world-girdling pharmaceutical companies.
What Breaks the Stuckness?
So what moves a Nash equilibrium off of its equilibrium? Either new sources of energy, new players, or longtime players waking up to new energy and awareness and options. Today we are seeing all three.
Think of yin-yang. The more unbalanced the system becomes, the greater the energy driving any potential instability. Any complex adaptive system in an unbalanced state at a sufficiently high energy level will resolve its potentials into a more-stable lower-energy state. The greater the potential instability, the more likely the resolution will not be incremental but sudden and catastrophic.
What’s that mean? It means that the “burn in hell” guy is losing in this contest.
Why? Because of something else we can learn from systems dynamics, which is this: This disruptive resolution and rebalancing will come from the system actors who:
are the most disadvantaged,
have unified incentives,
and have the greatest freedom of action.
Who am I describing? Where do we find such system actors?
Where?
Not in the political realm. In their nature, like Obamacare, attempts at reform mostly end up being efforts to stabilize the existing system a little longer by taking the edge off some of its inequities and arbitrary cruelties. So for instance the various proposed reforms, even the most radical ones, are mostly just about making sure that everyone is covered in one way or another. No mechanisms for actual cost savings or elimination of rampant waste is contemplated beyond government fiat, which has proven a slender reed on which to depend.
Not from the healthcare providers, nor the insurers, the payers, who actually are mostly doing quite well on their ever-exaggerating mesas in the fitness landscape, drawing in more and more energy from the rest of us, and whose true incentives are to keep the imbalance going and keep costs up.
It’s the buyers, who are professionally, personally, and financially aligned with their members, beneficiaries, and employees. They have traditionally been quiescent, unaware of their power, without the knowledge, the strategies, the tools to take up their power, simply paying the bills without questioning them. All it takes is for them to wake up.
And they are waking up.
Imagine Yourself…
Put yourself in their place. Imagine you are running one of these entities, buying healthcare for tens to hundreds of thousands of people, in charge of trying to keep that budget in line and those costs down. With all the new pricing information coming out in various ways, imagine that you are contemplating the fact that MRIs in your area may vary from $400 to $2200 depending not on quality but just on the site. Or you see hospital bills that ring up a single bag of saline for $91 to $758 for no reason, for a generic item that costs less than $1 to manufacture. Or you see, as we have seen online, a young man with a rare genetic condition sharing his hospital bills on the Internet. He requires an infusion that requires an overnight hospital stay twice a month. His life circumstances have required him to move between states, change insurers, and get treated at different centers. For the exact same procedure with the exact same materials his insurers have paid from $3,319 to $20,736, while he has co-paid from $222 to $4,261.
For no reason. If you have studied quality theory, you know that variation for no reason is always a marker of damage in a system.
If you were a self-funded buyer, paying directly for medical care for your employees or beneficiaries, what would you do when confronted with these random absurd variations in cost for no reason?
You’d say, “I’ll take door number 2.”
You’d say, “Wait, who’s the chump here?”
You’d say, “This is bullshit.”
You’d say, “I will figure out what it takes to pay the lowest price possible for high quality care.”
And that’s what’s happening in 2019, facing 2020. The buyers are not buying the story anymore. They’re saying, “Show us the goods. Show us:
The cost of the whole thing, diagnosis to rehab, whatever the package might be.
The appropriateness. Does this really need to be done? How do we know? Where are the real checks in the system?
The quality. How good are you really? Show us.
The real outcomes. Not metrics you choose for your marketing. Real metrics.”
Why now?
What’s different this year is that increasingly the tools they need exist, the strategies are there and tested, and there are insurgent vendors ready to show them how to execute on the strategies.
This year and the next are likely to be a tipping point.
The huge cost of healthcare is rooted in the way we pay for healthcare in a line-item, fee-for-service, treat-to-code payment system. Fee-for-service is like taking your car’s bent fender to an auto body shop and being charged for each sheet of sandpaper, each can of Bondo, and each ounce of paint, instead of getting an overall estimate and a single bill.
So I am telegraphing the punchline here: Any serious and widespread attempt to substitute new and different payment systems based on risk and true competition through transparent bundled prices and quality of outcomes will implode today’s healthcare market.
Here Comes Everybody
The North Carolina State Health Plan is not isolated in its efforts. Similar stories are playing out in Montana, Kentucky, and other states. Haven, the amalgamation of JP Morgan Chase, Amazon, and Berkshire Hathaway, is just such a buyer with just such incentives. Giant retailers like Walmart, Kroeger, and Loews, tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, and Google, and many other large employers are waking up to their power as wholesale buyers of healthcare. Buyers across the country are using multiple strategies such reference-based pricing, bundled pricing, medical tourism, cost plus caps, even onsite, near-site and direct pay primary care. Consultants and other vendors are proliferating who are eager to help buyers of any size, even small employers, map out these strategies. None of these are yet majority practices across all buyers, but they are trending rapidly and appear to be at a major bend in the curve of adoption.
The more buyers get up on their hind legs and insist on their power as true customers, the faster that change will happen. As more buyers experience and demonstrate that they can get high quality healthcare for 10 percent, 20 percent, even 30 percent less in the system as it exists today, the more other players in the system will have to adjust, accommodate, change their pricing and cost structures, stop wasteful expensive practices and focus on providing what their customers want, need and are willing to pay for: real healthcare and real attention at a reasonable cost.
Change is gonna come.  
Joe Flower has 40 years of experience in the healthcare world and has emerged as a thought leader on the deep forces changing the system in the United States and around the world.
The Rebellion of the Buyers published first on https://venabeahan.tumblr.com
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kristinsimmons · 5 years
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The Rebellion of the Buyers
By JOE FLOWER
Did you catch that headline a few weeks back?
An official of a health system in North Carolina sent an email to the entire board of the North Carolina State Health Plan calling them a bunch of “sorry SOBs” who would “burn in hell” after they “bankrupt every hospital in the state.”
Wow. He sounds rather upset. He sounds angry and afraid. He sounds surprised, gobsmacked, face-palming.
Bless his heart. I get it, I really do. Well, I get the fear and pain. Here’s what I don’t get: the surprise, the tone of, “This came out of nowhere! Why didn’t anyone tell us this was coming?”
Brother, we did. We have been. As loudly as we can. For years.
Two things to notice here:
What is he so upset about? Under State Treasurer Dale Folwell’s leadership, the State Health Plan has pegged its payments to hospitals and other medical providers in the state to a range of roughly 200% of Medicare payments (with special help for rural hospitals and other exceptions). In an industry that routinely says that Medicare covers 90% of their costs, this actually sounds rather generous.
What is the State Health Plan? It’s not a payer, that is, an insurer. It’s a buyer. Buyers play under a different set of rules and incentives than an insurer.
Payers are not Buyers
That #2 is key: Insurers are paying for your healthcare with your money, the premiums you pay them. Under the Affordable Care Act their entire administrative cost, executive salaries, and the profit for shareholders comes out of a strictly limited percentage of the total cost. Think about that. The higher the total cost of the healthcare they buy for you, the more money to go around for executive salaries and shareholder profit. The more your healthcare costs, the better their bottom line looks. How’s that for an incentive?
Buyers, on the other hand, are paying for your healthcare with their own money and yours together. Self-funded employers, union health plans, state health plans, pension plans and other buyers pay the actual medical bills through a third-party administrator (TPA). The higher the total cost of your healthcare, the worse their bottom line looks. The lower, the better. If they can help you avoid an expensive unnecessary surgery, or get it done at a provider that charges one fourth as much, or help you get your expensive drugs at half the price or less, you will be happier and so will they.
Buyers’ incentives are closely aligned with their members, employees, and beneficiaries. As large buyers buying for thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of people they have the freedom and power to do something about those costs.
This has been the drumbeat of my books, talks, columns, articles, YouTube videos, and tweets, for years: The healthcare economy is hollow, inflated, and flammable, like the Hindenburg approaching Lakehurst in a thunderstorm. What will set it off? A rebellion of the buyers.
Analyze This
Can we analyze this for just a moment? Bear with me for a little systems analysis.
Picture healthcare as a complex adaptive system with multiple interdependent parts (hospital systems, pharmaceutical companies, device manufacturers, government payers and regulators, insurance companies and so on). Each part is busy taking in energy (mostly money) from the other parts and putting out products and services, or money to fund other parts. The input of each part is someone else’s output. The more one part puts out, the more other parts can take in.
Each part is at a local optimum. Picture this as a 3-D “fitness landscape,” where the height of each part represents its “fitness,” its ability to survive and prosper. In healthcare each part is on a tall mesa, that is, they have optimized their position over time so that they are doing as well as they possibly can in the system that exists. That’s why they operate the way they do and make the choices they make.
Think about the people who run each of these organizations. By definition, they are at the peak of their careers. They got all their training and experience, and climbed the career ladder to the C suite, by being excellent at the existing way of doing things in an industry that has not changed its fundamental structure for 40 years or more.
Not all the mesas are the same height. Some are doing very well, some not so well. But nearly all of them see a wide gulf between where they are and any other higher level of fitness that they might hope to reach, a gulf that is fraught with danger and unknowns.
This complex adaptive system is stuck in a Nash equilibrium. That is, each player, doing as well as possible for themselves in the system as it is, sees no advantage in changing the way they do things. In every direction in this fitness landscape, any change they make will see them and their organization climbing down off their mesa, their “local optimum” into a lower level of fitness, into a valley of uncertainty, into being beginners at this game.
Yet at the same time the system is more and more unbalanced, with some mesas growing ever taller, drawing in more and more energy from the other actors—the vast health insurers, the increasingly consolidated healthcare systems, the world-girdling pharmaceutical companies.
What Breaks the Stuckness?
So what moves a Nash equilibrium off of its equilibrium? Either new sources of energy, new players, or longtime players waking up to new energy and awareness and options. Today we are seeing all three.
Think of yin-yang. The more unbalanced the system becomes, the greater the energy driving any potential instability. Any complex adaptive system in an unbalanced state at a sufficiently high energy level will resolve its potentials into a more-stable lower-energy state. The greater the potential instability, the more likely the resolution will not be incremental but sudden and catastrophic.
What’s that mean? It means that the “burn in hell” guy is losing in this contest.
Why? Because of something else we can learn from systems dynamics, which is this: This disruptive resolution and rebalancing will come from the system actors who:
are the most disadvantaged,
have unified incentives,
and have the greatest freedom of action.
Who am I describing? Where do we find such system actors?
Where?
Not in the political realm. In their nature, like Obamacare, attempts at reform mostly end up being efforts to stabilize the existing system a little longer by taking the edge off some of its inequities and arbitrary cruelties. So for instance the various proposed reforms, even the most radical ones, are mostly just about making sure that everyone is covered in one way or another. No mechanisms for actual cost savings or elimination of rampant waste is contemplated beyond government fiat, which has proven a slender reed on which to depend.
Not from the healthcare providers, nor the insurers, the payers, who actually are mostly doing quite well on their ever-exaggerating mesas in the fitness landscape, drawing in more and more energy from the rest of us, and whose true incentives are to keep the imbalance going and keep costs up.
It’s the buyers, who are professionally, personally, and financially aligned with their members, beneficiaries, and employees. They have traditionally been quiescent, unaware of their power, without the knowledge, the strategies, the tools to take up their power, simply paying the bills without questioning them. All it takes is for them to wake up.
And they are waking up.
Imagine Yourself…
Put yourself in their place. Imagine you are running one of these entities, buying healthcare for tens to hundreds of thousands of people, in charge of trying to keep that budget in line and those costs down. With all the new pricing information coming out in various ways, imagine that you are contemplating the fact that MRIs in your area may vary from $400 to $2200 depending not on quality but just on the site. Or you see hospital bills that ring up a single bag of saline for $91 to $758 for no reason, for a generic item that costs less than $1 to manufacture. Or you see, as we have seen online, a young man with a rare genetic condition sharing his hospital bills on the Internet. He requires an infusion that requires an overnight hospital stay twice a month. His life circumstances have required him to move between states, change insurers, and get treated at different centers. For the exact same procedure with the exact same materials his insurers have paid from $3,319 to $20,736, while he has co-paid from $222 to $4,261.
For no reason. If you have studied quality theory, you know that variation for no reason is always a marker of damage in a system.
If you were a self-funded buyer, paying directly for medical care for your employees or beneficiaries, what would you do when confronted with these random absurd variations in cost for no reason?
You’d say, “I’ll take door number 2.”
You’d say, “Wait, who’s the chump here?”
You’d say, “This is bullshit.”
You’d say, “I will figure out what it takes to pay the lowest price possible for high quality care.”
And that’s what’s happening in 2019, facing 2020. The buyers are not buying the story anymore. They’re saying, “Show us the goods. Show us:
The cost of the whole thing, diagnosis to rehab, whatever the package might be.
The appropriateness. Does this really need to be done? How do we know? Where are the real checks in the system?
The quality. How good are you really? Show us.
The real outcomes. Not metrics you choose for your marketing. Real metrics.”
Why now?
What’s different this year is that increasingly the tools they need exist, the strategies are there and tested, and there are insurgent vendors ready to show them how to execute on the strategies.
This year and the next are likely to be a tipping point.
The huge cost of healthcare is rooted in the way we pay for healthcare in a line-item, fee-for-service, treat-to-code payment system. Fee-for-service is like taking your car’s bent fender to an auto body shop and being charged for each sheet of sandpaper, each can of Bondo, and each ounce of paint, instead of getting an overall estimate and a single bill.
So I am telegraphing the punchline here: Any serious and widespread attempt to substitute new and different payment systems based on risk and true competition through transparent bundled prices and quality of outcomes will implode today’s healthcare market.
Here Comes Everybody
The North Carolina State Health Plan is not isolated in its efforts. Similar stories are playing out in Montana, Kentucky, and other states. Haven, the amalgamation of JP Morgan Chase, Amazon, and Berkshire Hathaway, is just such a buyer with just such incentives. Giant retailers like Walmart, Kroeger, and Loews, tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, and Google, and many other large employers are waking up to their power as wholesale buyers of healthcare. Buyers across the country are using multiple strategies such reference-based pricing, bundled pricing, medical tourism, cost plus caps, even onsite, near-site and direct pay primary care. Consultants and other vendors are proliferating who are eager to help buyers of any size, even small employers, map out these strategies. None of these are yet majority practices across all buyers, but they are trending rapidly and appear to be at a major bend in the curve of adoption.
The more buyers get up on their hind legs and insist on their power as true customers, the faster that change will happen. As more buyers experience and demonstrate that they can get high quality healthcare for 10 percent, 20 percent, even 30 percent less in the system as it exists today, the more other players in the system will have to adjust, accommodate, change their pricing and cost structures, stop wasteful expensive practices and focus on providing what their customers want, need and are willing to pay for: real healthcare and real attention at a reasonable cost.
Change is gonna come.  
Joe Flower has 40 years of experience in the healthcare world and has emerged as a thought leader on the deep forces changing the system in the United States and around the world.
The Rebellion of the Buyers published first on https://wittooth.tumblr.com/
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