The Ultimate Version of Ill-Informed Health Care Leadership: Dumb, Incoherent, Confused, Perhaps Psychotic Things President Trump Says and Does About Health Care Policy

DiscussionWe have discussed the doctrine ofmanagerialism promoted in business schools that people trained in management should lead every type of human organization and endeavor.  Management by people from the disciplines most relevant to the mission and nature of particular organizations should be eschewed.  So managers, not physicians or other health care professionals, should lead health care organizations.  Following that theme, managers, or those like them, rather than health care professionals and health policy experts should lead health policy. However, managers who run health care organizations, or make policy, have an unfortunate tendency to beill-informed (as well as unsympathetic if nothostile to health care professionals ' value and the health care mission, and subject toperverse incentives that often put short-term revenue ahead of the health of patients and the population.)In some sense, President Trump is the ultimate embodiment of managerialism.  He is a life long businessman, whose highest academic training resulted in an MBA from the Wharton School, with no demonstrated knowledge of or experience in public policy, the law, or the US Constitution.  Yet for years he has felt free to make pronouncements about any subject which caught his eye.Now he is in charge of health care and health care policy at the federal level, amongst other things. In this role, Mr Trump also appears to be the ultimate embodiment of ill-informed leadershi...
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