Health Care

I am a health care strategy consultant with a data-driven focus on health care delivery optimization. I currently serve as the VP of Strategic Operations for a boutique consulting firm in Austin Texas and spent the formative portion of my consulting career with Deloitte. Through my personal brand, Provocative Perspectives, I offer research-driven alternative perspectives on challenging political and social issues. My articles have appeared in health care industry journals including Hospitals & Health Networks and Healthcare Financial Management as well as The Huffington Post and numerous websites. I have published a novel about the challenges of working motherhood called Mama's Got a Brand New Job. I have an undergraduate degree in architecture from Yale and masters' degrees in architecture and business from the University of Michigan. I am a born and bred New Yorker who's spent the last two decades enjoying life in Austin, Texas with my family.

The global community clamors for American innovation and ideas. But no one wants our health care system.Americans spend trillions of dollars on health care only to generate some of the worst health outcomes in the world. Addressing health care's problems with incremental solutions cannot generate the transformational change that's desperately needed. Janis Powers offers a visionary alternative-the Dream Plan.
Powers advocates for a system rooted in the values of the American Dream: personal accountability, longitudinal goal-setting, and community support. Her proposal requires a complete decentralization of the current payment system, ostensibly eliminating both health insurance and Medicare while dramatically altering Medicaid. Some of the thought-provoking points in this rigorously researched book include:
• Why health insurance will soon be obsolete
• Why a longitudinal perspective on health is critical to improving outcomes and saving money
• Why the private sector, not the government, must drive health care innovation
• Why all Americans must brace for rationing in health care spending
The Dream Plan elevates the role of preventative care, creates a more market-based economy for health care goods and services, and shifts more accountability for outcomes to the patient. Powers offers an ambitious plan that serves as the first step in the transformation of the American health care system.
Janis Powers is a health care strategy consultant who lives in Austin, Texas.