Archive For: Commentaries

Better Health Insurance Starts With a People-Focused Standard — and Yes, Profitability Still Matters

Ask anyone: Health insurance sucks. It’s complicated to understand, there’s no price transparency, it’s extremely expensive and it… Read More

By Ann Somers Hogg January 28, 2025

Outcomes

Putting Physicians at Financial Risk Might Reduce Misdiagnosis

Misdiagnosis leads to an estimated 371,000 deaths and 424,000 permanent disabilities in this country each year. I believe… Read More

By Ken Terry January 14, 2025

Burda on Healthcare: Hard Lessons in Health Insurance Market Dynamics

As open enrollment season ends and the health insurance year begins, let’s look at what three new reports… Read More

By David Burda January 7, 2025

Outcomes

4sight Health’s Top Performers of 2024

4sight Health’s Top Commentaries The forces impacting healthcare were in full force in 2024, starting with reports on… Read More

By David Burda December 24, 2024

Outcomes

Burda on Healthcare: Forgetting — Or Ignoring — An Important Patient Safety Anniversary

Last month marked an important healthcare anniversary. It was the 25th anniversary of To Err Is Human: Building… Read More

By David Burda December 17, 2024

Social Media’s Assassination of Brian Thompson

Before dawn on Wednesday, December 4, United Healthcare’s CEO Brian Thompson approached the Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan… Read More

By David W. Johnson December 10, 2024

Burda on Healthcare: It’s Open Season on Employer Benefits Surveys

It’s that time of year when people choose their health insurance benefits and select a health plan. Not… Read More

By David Burda November 12, 2024

Getting Retail Primary Care Right: 5 Ways to Fix a Broken Model

Getting a medical checkup the same place you pick up groceries — aka retail primary care — has… Read More

By Bryan Becker November 5, 2024

Burda on Healthcare: Rust Never Sleeps. Neither do Healthcare Revolutionaries.

When I was 18, Neil Young and Crazy Horse said rust never sleeps. I took it to mean… Read More

By David Burda October 8, 2024

Commentaries