So we're now one election away from the biggest outsourcing opportunity ever... the healthcare insurance industry trying to figure out how to move from a B2B to a B2C model. Quite simply, the insurance companies ain't gonna figure out how to send a nuclear warhead into their service and IT operations... they'll turn to the outsourcers to do it for them. Tony Filippone, who actually managed much of Wellpoint's operations for nine years (a $62 billion healthcare insurer) might know a thing or two about the implications healthcare reform will likely have...
In terms of politics, it’s not over. Today’s Supreme Court healthcare reform decision simply clarified two issues. First, that the individual mandate is a constitutional tax, not an unconstitutional act by Congress to regulate commerce. Second, if states choose not to expand Medicaid benefits, they can elect to not follow the law without losing all of their Federal funding. More legal detail can be found here.
Any hope by Republicans to overturn the law in the courts is now officially dead. This is largely due to former president George W. Bush’s nominee for Chief
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