What Does Health Insurance Consolidation Mean for You?

Byadmin August 21, 2012

Listen to this Marketplace report on consolidation in the world of health insurance. It is an interesting report, and also the first public acknowledgment that I am, gulp, a Business Professor!

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Insured But Not Covered
Byadmin August 27, 2015

Under the Affordable Care Act, the percent of Americans who lack any health insurance has declined significantly. Put another way – more Americans have health insurance than ever. But having insurance coverage is different than being well covered by insurance. Sometimes a person can enroll in a health insurance plan, and still face the kind of out-of-pocket…

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Science Isn’t Meant To Be Followed
Byadmin June 18, 2020June 29, 2020

Science cannot lead us out of this pandemic. Whatever paths we take to navigate COVID-19 need to be chosen through political processes. The true role of science is to illuminate these pathways, guiding our policy choices by showing us what’s at stake.

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Is Opposition to Obamacare Racist?
Byadmin November 21, 2013

It is pretty easy to be against Obamacare these days. The federal government can’t come up with a working website to help people buy health insurance. The President misled people about whether they could hold onto their old insurance plans. And come next tax day, the least popular provision of the Affordable Care Act –…

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Evaluating the Quality of Charter Schools and Tertiary Care Hospitals
Byadmin December 5, 2012

If Americans judged the quality of hospital care the way Newsweek judges high schools, we would soon be inundated with “charter hospitals” that only treat healthy patients. As reported in The New YorkTimes , thirty-seven of Newsweek’s top 50 high schools have selective admission standards, thereby enrolling the cream of the eighth grade crop. That means…

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How Medicare Is Punishing Hospitals That Care For Poor People
Byadmin October 29, 2014

Such a no-brainer: If patients who receive care at Hospital A are more likely to get readmitted to the hospital 10, 20 or 30 days after discharge than patients in Hospital B, then Hospital A must be doing something wrong. Perhaps clinicians at that hospital are less adept at diagnosing and managing patients’ problems. Perhaps…

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Fixing Healthcare Means Maintaining Infrastructure
Byadmin January 21, 2010

It is pothole season in Michigan, with roads crumbling under the pressure of winter cold. Then again, with the condition of our state’s dismal economy, pothole season is becoming a year-round phenomenon here in the Great Lake State. Michigan’s government can no longer afford to fix roads like it used to, and the same goes…

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What Does Health Insurance Consolidation Mean for You?

Insured But Not Covered

Science Isn’t Meant To Be Followed

Is Opposition to Obamacare Racist?

Evaluating the Quality of Charter Schools and Tertiary Care Hospitals

How Medicare Is Punishing Hospitals That Care For Poor People

Fixing Healthcare Means Maintaining Infrastructure

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