Federalizing Medicaid

Byadmin June 13, 2011

Here is a new post I’ve got up at the Health Care Cost Monitor, in which I try to convince folks that even Republicans should be in favor of federalizing Medicaid. I’d love your feedback, as I’m still developing this idea.

Health Policy

Are Insurance Companies the Key to Lower Prices?

Byadmin October 1, 2012

Two patients lie asleep on operating room tables, each with an inflamed appendix demanding to be relocated to a specimen jar. Two operations take place, each one lasting close to fifty minutes, each one performed by an experienced surgeon at a state-of-the-art U.S. hospital. One operation was priced at $1200 dollars. But the other one…

Ethics | Miscellaneous

Can a $20 Rebate Amount to Highway Robbery?

Byadmin January 7, 2013

Steven Johnson was a rising star at the NordicWear Company, even before that brutal winter of 2002. But then, thanks to a rebate program he instituted for their new line of snow pants, he rocketed up the corporate ladder. His plan was brilliant in its simplicity. Late in the previous winter, he ran a series…

Health Policy

Why We Need More Twelve-Year-Olds Teaching Health Policy

Byadmin August 23, 2012

I come from an ardent Republican family. Suspicion of government, you could say, runs in my genes. No surprise then that the first time my parents and siblings heard about Obama’s individual health insurance mandate, they were against it… (Read more and view comments at The Human Capital Blog)

Health & Well-being | Health Policy

Uncovered: In America, Insurance Doesn’t Guarantee Access and Coverage Doesn’t Mean You’re Covered

Byadmin August 13, 2019January 15, 2020

Something like one in seven people living in the US have no healthcare insurance. In fact, the number of uninsured people has grown by 7 million since Trump has become president. (Make America Uninsured Again?) These numbers are atrocious. Embarrassing. Shameful, actually, in a country as wealthy as ours. We need to recommit ourselves to guaranteeing people access…

Ethics

Inappropriate Touching in the Doctor's Office

Byadmin August 9, 2012

I felt a woman’s uterus without her permission. How this happened, and why I thought I had done the right thing at the time, tells us something important about medical education and shows us why doctor/patient interactions often play out like conversations between earthlings and aliens… (Read the rest and view comments at Critical Decisions)

Health Policy

Is Healthcare Spending About To Accelerate?

Byadmin February 4, 2015

Bend a resilient object and it will spring back with a vengeance once released from your grip. Is that what is about to happen to healthcare spending? For years now, experts have been debating ways to “bend the cost curve ” – take the sharp rise in healthcare costs, picture a rapidly ascending line on…

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Federalizing Medicaid

Are Insurance Companies the Key to Lower Prices?

Can a $20 Rebate Amount to Highway Robbery?

Why We Need More Twelve-Year-Olds Teaching Health Policy

Uncovered: In America, Insurance Doesn’t Guarantee Access and Coverage Doesn’t Mean You’re Covered

Inappropriate Touching in the Doctor's Office

Is Healthcare Spending About To Accelerate?

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