Navigating funding cuts and policy changes
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The Boy Who Cried ‘Crisis’: What Happens When Healthcare Exhausts Its Language?
Against the passage of the Big Beautiful Bill, the healthcare industry deployed heavyweight messengers to launch its full rhetorical arsenal. Using words such as “unprecedented” and “polycrisis.” Declaring “Hospitals will close.” “Services will disappear.” “Jobs will be lost.” “Communities will suffer.” “People will die.”
And the bill passed.
The only two questions that matter
Once again, healthcare leaders are confronting hard choices and tough action.
As we enter the second week since passage of legislation cutting $1 trillion from healthcare – directly affecting some 16 million lives and untold more in the aftershocks – there is new urgency to the two fundamental questions facing every provider.
One big, beautiful bill: One big, brutal truth—“We’re going to need a bigger boat”
New policy developments have formed a perfect storm that requires healthcare leaders to quickly build “a bigger boat” to navigate these rough waters. And, maybe, design a different one altogether.
Chartis Top Reads
More $1 trillion in cuts are coming to healthcare programs over the next decade. We discuss direct impacts to health systems and their communities.
Stay ahead of disruption: Understand the financial impact of policy developments and actions to ensure sustainability
Healthcare leaders face uncertainty about how proposed funding cuts could impact their organizations and communities. We discuss how to plan and identify emerging operational strategies.
Existential challenges ahead:
Implications of proposed funding cuts and considerations for academic health enterprises