Category: Consumerism

Study Sends Message on Digital Disparities

From 1983 to 2018, I was a white male with commercial health insurance through my employer. From 2018… Read More

By David Burda October 15, 2025

Sorry, Dr. Oz, the Bloom May Be Falling Off the Medicare Advantage Enrollment Rose

I write about Medicare privatization (you know it by its brand name, Medicare Advantage or MA) a lot… Read More

By David Burda October 1, 2025

Economics

Podcast: Yes, Employers, You Can Do Something About Rising Healthcare Costs 9/18/25

Employers are facing big jumps in employee medical and health insurance costs next year. What can they do… Read More

By David Burda September 18, 2025

Outcomes

Look but Don’t Touch Your Own Health Data

A new report from the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (let’s… Read More

By David Burda August 27, 2025

Economics

The Evidence Is Clear: Patients Shouldn’t Pay Their Increasingly Higher Medical Bills

I know someone who knows someone who works at a healthcare revenue cycle company. That someone told my… Read More

By David Burda August 13, 2025

Consumerism, Revenue Cycle and U.S. Healthcare

A Three-Part Series Commentary 1: “Consumerism Introduces Itself to U.S. Healthcare Commentary 2: Revenue Cycle Dystopia: Olives with No… Read More

By David W. Johnson June 24, 2025

Revenue Cycle Euphoria: Logical Automation and Consumerism

Author’s note: hfm magazine planned to publish this commentary in its entirety, and subsequently decided it would publish a… Read More

By David W. Johnson June 17, 2025

Podcast: Critiquing Trump’s Latest Plan to Lower Drug Prices 5/15/25

Will Trump’s executive order aimed at lowering drug prices for consumers be something or just sound and fury… Read More

By David Burda May 15, 2025

Outcomes

Hey, Independents, Want Some Public Health News With Your Salmonella?

If you follow the news closely, you know that the Trump regime is dismantling our public health system… Read More

By David Burda April 30, 2025

Consumerism