Monthly Archive: January 2008
British Docs Call for Withholding Care from Smokers, the Elderly and the Obese
Socialized medicine, or a single payer system, means that there is one payer, and it’s the government. But the government puts roadblocks to care in place, because when anything is free, it is over-used....
Consumerism Essential to Prevent Further Cost Explosion
The authors Dean Halverson and Wayne Glowac just self-published their “The Wave of Consumerism that will Change U.S. Business,” and thankfully the Manitowac Herald Times wrote a very well done article about the thesis...
National Hospital Charges vs. What Medicare Pays
The debate about hospitals overcharging their patients and playing hide the ball with their prices is just beginning to gain traction. One of the elements feeding the fire on this issue is data about...
Two Simple Steps to Immediately End Hospital Overcharging
[Update to this post, August 4, 2013: If you want to read about one organization that is doing it right, not a hospital, but a surgery center that is not overcharging, but driving prices...
The CALPERS and Pacific Business Group Study on Hospital Prices
The LA Times and the Palo Alto Daily News reported on a study on hospital prices commissioned by “the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the nation’s third-largest health benefits purchaser, and the Pacific Business...
Health Savings Accounts and Preventive Care
One of the on-going concerns among critics of Health Savings Accounts is that the incentive to spend wisely on your health care needs, which is one of the key features of an HSA —...