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Economics
When Pillars Crumble: A Warning for Healthcare?
Raghuram Rajan’s new book The Third Pillar provides an insightful framework for understanding the interconnected relationships between the… Read More
By March 5, 2019
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Economics
Forced Resignations at NCH Healthcare System Expose Medicine’s Dark Side
An ongoing feud between independent physicians and hospital administrators in Naples, Florida, exploded last month, damaging the trust… Read More
By February 12, 2019
Consumerism
An Unbearable Burden: Paying for Commercial Health Insurance
The Healthcare Affordability Index (the Index) is a simple and powerful metric for assessing the impact of rising… Read More
By February 5, 2019
Economics
After the Breakups: Big Payers Find Vertical Love in New Faces
In rapid succession at the end of 2018, CVS closed its $70 billion acquisition of Aetna and Cigna… Read More
By and January 29, 2019
Innovation
Everyone Knows What’s Going to Happen in Healthcare in 2019. Do You? – Burda on Healthcare
What’s going to happen in healthcare this year is anyone’s guess. Not really. What’s going to happen in… Read More
By January 23, 2019
Consumerism
When the Price Is Right: Aligning Payment with Health System Transformation
In 1952 at the tender age of 25, Elizabeth became the Queen of England upon the death of… Read More
By and January 15, 2019
Innovation
Getting Precise about Precision Medicine: Balancing Hope, Potential and Cost
Definitions of precision medicine are anything but precise. For seriously ill patients and their families, precision medicine therapies… Read More
By and January 8, 2019
Policy
Eisenhower’s Prophecy: The Healthcare Industrial Complex®
On January 17, 1961, three days before leaving office, Dwight D. Eisenhower spoke to the nation one last… Read More
By December 19, 2018
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Economics
HHS Goes All In on Competition as the Way to Fix Healthcare Woes – Burda on Healthcare
Competition good. Regulation bad. That’s my caveman summary of HHS’ manifesto released on Dec. 3 on how to… Read More
By December 17, 2018
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