Thought leadership on the use of innovation to solve health care access, quality, and funding issues.
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With the number of employers offering health insurance to their workers declining, the group health insurance market is shrinking. Meanwhile, the individual market has exploded to $115 billion a year. This is according to Norvax, an online health insurance technology company. Norvax recently completed an analysis of nearly half a million people who have requested [...]
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The October Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 is out and it is no surprise that health care reform has dropped to a position well behind the economy and the war in Iraq as issues voters want candidates to address. The latest national survey of 1,207 adults found for the first time since the Foundation [...]
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It is now January 5th, and time to climb back into the saddle and start looking once again for health plan innovations. One of the so called innovations that we are hearing about from some of the leading presidential candidates is a federal mandate which would require everyone not in Medicaid or another government program [...]
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Presidential hopeful, John McCain, today revealed his thoughts on how to reform the U.S. health care system. Though not fully fleshed out, the concepts are market-driven health plan innovations that deserve some discussion. His ideas revolve around giving people more control and more choices while fostering greater industry competition in hopes of lowering costs and [...]
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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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