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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The Challenge of Predicting Future Medicare Expenses
Byadmin June 18, 2013

As I pointed out in a recent post, experts have been debating what has caused the recent slowdown in medical spending in the United States. They are also try to figure out whether that slowdown will continue. And figuring this out is pretty darn important, because it has a major impact on how we budget…

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When Harry and Louise Met Hillary
Byadmin February 17, 2012

As part of the Duke undergraduate course I teach on health care policy, I recently prepared a lecture on Bill Clinton’s ultimately futile efforts to reform the US health care system early in his first term of office, back in 1993. This preparation gave me an excuse to read Theda Skocpol’s wonderful book, Boomerang.
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You Thought Innovation Was Hard, How about De-Innovation?
Byadmin February 6, 2015

David Asch and I recently published an article in Health Affairs on the challenge of getting healthcare practitioners to stop doing things they are accustomed to doing, even when the evidence that those things are harmful becomes overwhelming. Here is a teaser from that article, and a link to the full piece: As hard as…

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How Truman's Medicare Efforts Were Foiled by Red Baiting
Byadmin January 15, 2014

In The Heart of Power, David Blumenthal and James Morone relate the 75 year history of presidential efforts (typically unsuccessful) to reform the U.S. healthcare system. I used to think major reform efforts did not happen for many years after FDR’s New Deal. After all, social security had taken a huge dent out of poverty among…

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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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A Surprising Way Health Insurance Might Save Your Life
Byadmin September 6, 2017

Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID) speaks with members of the media at Trump Tower December 12, 2016 in New York. / AFP / KENA BETANCUR (Photo credit should read KENA BETANCUR/AFP/Getty Images) Back in May, an angry constituent asked Congressmen Raul Labrador why he voted for the Republican House Healthcare Bill, that the constituent claimed would…

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What Does Health Insurance Consolidation Mean for You?

The Challenge of Predicting Future Medicare Expenses

When Harry and Louise Met Hillary

You Thought Innovation Was Hard, How about De-Innovation?

How Truman's Medicare Efforts Were Foiled by Red Baiting

Is Opposition to Obamacare Racist?

A Surprising Way Health Insurance Might Save Your Life

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