It’s a backbone-brilliant concept that actually produces better healthcare, and better health, for significantly less money—and a concept that America may be too politically hypnotized to ever put into wide practice. “Evidence-based” means it’s about what really...
According to a new poll, half of all Americans say they are “confused” about healthcare reform. And boy howdy, are they right! Take a look at this new Kaiser Family Fund poll: http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/upload/8156-C.pdf Scan down to Slide 9: Almost a quarter of...
There is a way to avoid a collapse of healthcare in this country. (This article originally appeared in Hospitals and Health Networks Daily, January 24, 2011) It’s getting scary. We are facing, before the end of this decade, a bifurcated future. The way things are...
What does the future of healthcare hold for insurance brokers, consultants, and agents? When people and companies buy healthcare insurance, they usually go through a broker, a consultant, or an agent. Agents sell insurance from one company, brokers from many...
I had a great discussion not long ago with a naive believer in “free markets”—naïve in his fairly unexplored belief that the market provides a better solution to pretty much any problem than government does. Over lunch, after a talk I gave, this fellow...
“Someone needs to take this writer out and kick his ass.” The quote leaped out at me from a December 5 New York Times article. Now, maybe I’m a little sensitive about using physical threats to try to silence writers, since I am a writer. Maybe I am especially...
