Category: Consumerism

Economics

Podcast: Income, Poverty, the Uninsured and Healthcare 9/21/23

What do the new Census Bureau figures on these three societal measures say about health policy and the… Read More

By David Burda September 21, 2023

A Sign of Faith in Healthcare Consumerism

If you follow this blog, you know I’m always looking for signs that people are becoming good healthcare… Read More

By David Burda September 20, 2023

Diagnostic Determinism: How Precision Diagnostics Will Reinvent Medicine

In the movie “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home,” the spaceship Enterprise travels back in time to San… Read More

By David W. Johnson September 5, 2023

Policy

4sight Friday | Side Effects of Medicare Negotiating Drug Prices | Healthcare Cyberattacks Get Real | Revolutionaries Write for 4sight Health

Read the 9/1/2023 Edition here. Subscribe here for weekly access. Curated by David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor… Read More

By David Burda September 1, 2023

Policy

Podcast: Forecasting the Impact of Medicare Part D Drug Negotiations 8/31/23

Don’t know what to think about the regulatory and competitive implications of Medicare negotiating the prices of 10… Read More

By David Burda August 31, 2023

Podcast: Food as Medicine. Medicine as Food. 8/17/23

Nationwide shortages. Off-label use. Filled without an office visit. Billions in savings for insurers. We’re talking about the… Read More

By David Burda August 17, 2023

Outcomes

4sight Friday | Sparking a Behavioral Health Revolution | A Patient Safety Murder Board | The Private Equity Hits Just Keep Coming

Read the 8/4/2023 Edition here. Subscribe here for weekly access. Curated by David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor… Read More

By David Burda August 4, 2023

Outcomes

4sight Friday | Necessary Healthcare Tradeoffs | A Price Transparency Told You So | Medical Debt Regulation or Strangulation?

Read the 7/14/2023 Edition here. Curated by David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor and columnist. Columns here. Find 4sight… Read More

By David Burda July 14, 2023

Policy

Sticks, Not Carrots, Get Hospitals’ Attention

I briefly worked with a person whose standing management dictum was that he was always right unless he… Read More

By David Burda July 12, 2023

Consumerism