Archive For: Commentaries

The No Surprises Act Is Driving Inflation

The No Surprises Act was supposed to protect patients from outrageous out-of-network medical bills, but it is also… Read More

By David W. Johnson October 6, 2026

Economics

Burda on Healthcare: Data to Rebut Healthcare Affordability B.S.

I don’t know about you, but I’m paying a lot more for everything that I buy. Like last… Read More

By David Burda September 29, 2026

Winners and Losers in AI’s ‘Shadow Medical System’

Earlier this summer, I wrote a piece titled, “How AI Will Replace Your PCP — If It Hasn’t… Read More

By Ann Somers Hogg September 22, 2026

Will Healthcare Become Unaffordable for Most of Us?

America has faced healthcare affordability crises before. In the 1970s, soaring health costs prompted President Richard Nixon to… Read More

By Ken Terry September 8, 2026

Economics

Burda on Healthcare: Motive, Means and Opportunity: Billing Codes Are Murdering Healthcare

My knowledge of medical billing codes and coding has been strictly professional. My first full-time job in journalism… Read More

By David Burda September 1, 2026

The Primary Care Infrastructure Alliance: What Healthcare Can Learn From OneWorld

Primary care has an access problem, but we keep trying to solve it as an ownership problem. Demand… Read More

By Mike Eaton August 25, 2026

Healthcare’s One-World Solution

What if healthcare could consolidate without actually merging? Nonprofit health systems and insurers have struggled to achieve national… Read More

By David W. Johnson August 11, 2026

Series: AI in Healthcare

Healthcare has, for decades, pursued scale through a simple pattern of consolidation: Buy hospitals, acquire practices and employ… Read More

By David W. Johnson August 7, 2026

Outcomes

Burda on Healthcare: Somebody Owes Someone $1,233.33

There’s an old TV police drama called Naked City about detectives in New York. Each episode ended with… Read More

By David Burda August 4, 2026

Commentaries