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RAND Corp: High-deductible health plans could Save $57.1 Billion per Year
RAND Corp: “Growth Of Consumer-Directed Health Plans To One-Half Of All Employer-Sponsored Insurance Could Save $57 Billion Annually” Continue reading
What is Unique about U.S. Health Care? Patients are not the paying customers
Americans control less of our own health spending than do residents of other developed countries. After ObamaCare is defeated, reversing his long-term trend must be the top priority of the real health reform that replaces it. Continue reading
Contra Colorado Health Foundation: Fee-for-service medicine not the problem
It is not fee-for-service that is the problem, but the burden third-party payers put on patients and providers alike, without adding any value whatsoever. Continue reading
Can Health Care Be Bought and Sold on eBay?
A small, emerging online service called MediBid is creating an actual market that puts doctors together with patients who need care. Here’s the best thing about it. Patients who use this service can cut their health care costs in half. Continue reading
Patient as paying customer vs. health plan as paying customer
In response to Wal-mart’s plan to expand its medical care offerings, John Goodman summarizes what happens when your health plan buys your health care rather than emulating how car insurance and home-owners insurance does, and how walk-in clinics are growing. Continue reading
Hey, Paul Krugman, patients should be consumers, not helpless pawns in an authoritarian politically-controlled health care system you support
Nobel-prize winner & New York Times Columnist Paul Krugman is demonstrates how little he knows about health care policy. Let me count the ways. Continue reading
A Radically Different Approach to Health Insurance
John Goodman of the National Center for Policy Analysis writes: [B]efore the current era, the most common form of health insurance — other than Blue Cross plans — was indemnity insurance with a fee schedule. A typical benefit consisted of … Continue reading
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Colorado Amendment 63, risk pools, & health care costs
A July 30 statement from a group calling itself “Colorado Deserves Better” said that Colorado Amendment 63 (Health Care Choice) “would isolate Colorado from health care costs savings by shrinking the risk pool in Colorado.” This is unlikely, and even … Continue reading
Health care innovation: good and bad
John Goodman of the National Center for Policy Analysis has an excellent column abut health care innovation. He summarizes: Wherever there is third-party payment [insurance, a health plan, Medicare, Medicaid], the goal of innovation is to produce more products that … Continue reading
What abortion costs can tell us about medical care costs
Note: This post is not about the proper legal status of abortion or whether it is moral. It’s about medical care costs and how patients pay for it. Readers can appreciate the content of this post regardless of their position … Continue reading