Major Problems in Montana's CI-128 (the Abortion Initiative)
- September 26, 2024
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 MOREIn 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 MORENobel-prize winner & New York Times Columnist Paul Krugman is demonstrates how little he knows about health care policy. Let me count the ways.
READ MOREJohn 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 MOREA 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 MOREJohn 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 […]
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