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Medical Loss Ratio Reform: Barking Up the Wrong Tree
The Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare) requires health plans to spend at least 80…
Medicaid Expansion Under the Affordable Care Act: The “Before” Picture
Financial Burden of Medical Spending by State and the Implications of the…
Dr. Carson on Health Care
Dr. Ben Carson made quite a splash at the National Prayer Breakfast…
Medical Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment – Do Physicians Want Cost Control?
Truth is more absurd than fiction. Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s wacky ban…
Designing Healthcare Innovation
By now you know that I have a distinct interest in healthcare…
Don’t Worry, ObamaCare Won’t Kill 99 Cent Value Meals
Fast food chains, which employ many low-income, uninsured adults, have been worried…
Delay of Care of Adults Closely Tied to Tighter Medicaid Eligibility Rules
We all know the potential effects of the option of states which choose…
Bill Frist Wants to Ban FFS
Here we go again. Once an idea gets fixed in certain minds,…
Actuarial Study Results a Mixed Bag on Costs of Claims under ACA
Out yesterday are the rather unsurprising results from a study commissioned by the…
Exchanges Offer More Than Just a Product under ACA
The healthcare provision of online exchanges as part of the ACA is…