Thought leadership on the use of innovation to solve health care access, quality, and funding issues.
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Now that the stimulus package has passed Congress and awaits the President’s signature, the debate has started in earnest about the how to address health care reform. I think most reasonable people agree that our current system falls short on three major tests: access, quality, and cost. Where reasonable people disagree is in how to [...]
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Over on the Market to Market blog today, Mark Reiboldt posted a summary of the event he chaired today on behalf of the Technology Association of Georgia, which explored the impact of the financial crisis on the healthcare industry. Mark wrote in his blog that he posed a question to the panel them asking whether [...]
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The Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research & Educational Trust (Kaiser/HRET – http://ehbs.kff.org/) has published their annual survey of employer-sponsored health benefits. This year’s study found more employers offering high deductible health plans and that employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts doubled since 2007. The study showed that thirteen percent of firms offering health [...]
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As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about the Norvax online health insurance quoting service for individuals, a new report is out that says fewer Americans are receiving health insurance thorough their employers. In fact three million fewer Americans under the age of 65 received health insurance through employers in 2007 than in 2000, according to [...]
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More evidence is out today that shows that high deductible health plans (HDHPs) and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) are working for a wide range of demographics — not just the “healthy and the wealthy” that some critics claim are the only ones to benefit. UnitedHealthcare analyzed more than 200,000 of its 1.4 million members enrolled [...]
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A few weeks ago in that space I posted a piece about how Indiana was testing Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) for the poor. The test, which is part of a program approved by the Bush administration, allows eligible residents to pay up to 5 percent of their incomes into state-subsidized “Personal Wellness and Responsibility Accounts” [...]
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An interesting story showed up recently on the web page of an Omaha TV news station, KETV. The story noted that there is a bill, now in the Ways and Means Committee, that would allow people to set aside money in their health savings accounts (HSAs) or flexible savings accounts (FSAs) to use toward fitness [...]
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It is great to see another study that confirms that market forces combined with transparency in pricing and quality measures can produce lower prices and better quality — just as they have in every other industry where they have been applied. On Tuesday, HealthPartners, the largest consumer-governed, nonprofit health care organization in the nation confirmed [...]
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In looking for innovative health care solutions, I was drawn to an op-ed piece that Republican presidential candidate Rudolph W. Giuliani published in the Boston Globe back on August 3, 2007. In a piece titled A free-market cure for US healthcare system he writes, “Instead of being more like Europe, we need to be more [...]
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As the presidential political campaigns heat up and more of the discussion centers on health care, we are going to be hearing a debate about mandating health insurance. Many politicians are promoting a health care system whereby the government would require individuals to purchase health insurance just as states currently require auto insurance coverage. Greg [...]
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