Wait, wait, I have a high deductible health plan, I’m a consumer, I need to shop.
Category: Healthcare
Not much is as important as health care and in America the debate rages on despite passage of the PPACA. What are the ongoing issues, what will be involved in implementing this massive legislation, what will change and what will not when it comes to health care?
Does high costs mean better health care? Yes, no, not sure
When I was operating employee health plans I would frequently have “discussions” with employees when their doctor (almost always out of network) charged far more
Hospital performance bonuses- beyond the hype
As part of Obamacare efforts to control costs the Department of HHS has a program to “reward” hospitals based on certain quality measures and patient
Do health economists miss the human element of cost-shifting?
Writing in a New York Times blog, Uwe Reinhardt, a well respected economics professor at Princeton makes the case that Medicare spending is not out
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