May state legislative applications limit an Article V convention? Subject, yes; specific language, probably not
- September 12, 2013
patient-as-customer
- Home
- patient-as-customer
Can Health Care Be Bought and Sold on eBay?0
- March 6, 2012
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
READ MOREPatient as paying customer vs. health plan as paying customer0
- November 23, 2011
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
READ MOREHey, Paul Krugman, patients should be consumers, not helpless pawns in an authoritarian politically-controlled health care system you support0
- May 3, 2011
Nobel-prize winner & New York Times Columnist Paul Krugman is demonstrates how little he knows about health care policy. Let me count the ways.
READ MORE
A Radically Different Approach to Health Insurance0
- November 9, 2010
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 so many dollars a day for each day in the hospital. Since the benefit was […]
READ MOREColorado Amendment 63, risk pools, & health care costs0
- August 24, 2010
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 so, it’s unethical. Even if larger risk pools result in cost savings (for whom?), this […]
READ MOREHealth care innovation: good and bad0
- August 17, 2010
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 qualify for reimbursement, even if the effects on patient outcomes are only marginal. Wherever there […]
READ MORE
