Insurance Woes

Byadmin June 18, 2014

A great cartoon from the Kaiser Health News website that pithily captures the “wonders” of the American health insurance system.

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Where Your Paycheck Is Going
Byadmin March 29, 2016

If you are wondering why your hourly wage or your salary aren’t rising as quickly as you like, or why your bank account at the end of the year hasn’t grown as much as you intended, don’t forget to take into account just how much more you are probably paying out-of-pocket for the medical care…

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What Happens When We Penalize Hospitals For Harming Patients?
Byadmin May 27, 2015

I recently had surgery to relieve an impingement of my left hip. I suffered a complication of the procedure in the hospital where I received the surgery performed follow-up care to treat the complication. As I lay on the table receiving that second treatment I wondered – okay, I mainly wondered “are they really going…

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Are Health Insurance Exchanges the Key to Improving Medicaid? Possible Lessons from Arkansas
Byadmin September 6, 2013

Imagine you are the breadwinner for a family of four, and have been out of work for a while in the recessionary economy. Your financial situation is so dire that you have had to enroll your family in Medicaid. Then you find a job, not one that will make you wealthy but one that pays…

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More on High Deductible Insurance Plans
Byadmin February 27, 2013

In my previous post, I showed a powerful picture (from the Kaiser Family Foundation) of the growth in high deductible insurance plans. Here is another picture from that same report, showing that the high end of these high ends is getting really high. (Click here to view comments)

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Health Policy

Percent of Americans Without Health Insurance Drops
Byadmin February 18, 2014

A recent Gallup poll shows that the percent of Americans without health insurance has dropped significantly in recent months. Here’s a picture of their findings: This drop has occurred largely in response to Obamacare – to the expansion of Medicaid in those states which went along with that provision of the law, and with the…

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Time To Abolish High-Deductible Health Plans
Byadmin2 June 25, 2025June 25, 2025

Euphemistically referred to as Consumer-Directed Health Plans, high out-of-pocket insurance is in theory supposed to incentivize people to scrutinize the cost and quality of their medical care, thus bringing pressure on providers to lower the price and/or raise the quality of their services. This theory isn’t borne out in practice. As a matter of practice…

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Insurance Woes

Where Your Paycheck Is Going

What Happens When We Penalize Hospitals For Harming Patients?

Are Health Insurance Exchanges the Key to Improving Medicaid? Possible Lessons from Arkansas

More on High Deductible Insurance Plans

Percent of Americans Without Health Insurance Drops

Time To Abolish High-Deductible Health Plans

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