Category: Economics

Now Is the Time to Nip Low-Value Care in the Bud

The coronavirus pandemic exposed flaws in the U.S. health system that we knew existed but weren’t in a… Read More

By David Burda June 23, 2020

Podcast: 4sight Friday Roundup, COVID-19 and Healthcare Affordability, 06/19/2020

COVID-19 and Healthcare Affordability Listen to this week’s 4sight Friday Roundup podcast for our predictions on how the… Read More

By David Burda June 19, 2020

COVID-19

Countering the Negative Consequences of COVID-Induced Healthcare Consolidation

The COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S. is leaving a lot of financially struggling hospitals and medical practices in… Read More

By David Burda June 18, 2020

COVID-19

Consumers Counting on Private Sector to Produce Post-COVID Healthcare Market Innovations

Consumers want the private sector, not the federal government, to lead them out of this mess we call… Read More

By David Burda June 9, 2020

Consumerism

4sight Friday | COVID-19-Style Healthcare Consumerism | Coronavirus BFFs | Wealth Inequality and the Pandemic

Read 06/05/2020 Edition here. Curated by David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor and columnist. Columns here. Find 4sight Health… Read More

By David Burda June 5, 2020

Economics

Wealth and Income Inequality as a Cause of Societal Inequity

Wealth and income inequality have been defining issues in the United States. The added stress of Covid-19 has… Read More

By Allen Weiss June 3, 2020

Economics

Patients Shouldn’t Expect Their Local Merging Not-For-Profit Hospitals to be More Charitable

For an old healthcare legal reporter, writing about antitrust and community benefits in the same blog post is… Read More

By David Burda June 3, 2020

COVID-19 Put the C Back in Healthcare Consumerism (that’s the uppercase C in Consumerism, not the lowercase c in Healthcare)

Restaurants across the country laid off workers, limited menus and closed because COVID-19 took away their customers. Hospitals… Read More

By David Burda June 2, 2020

COVID-19

Workplace Wellness Programs and the Coronavirus Pandemic

If you think starting a workplace wellness program would be a good way to help your company recover… Read More

By David Burda May 27, 2020

Economics