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An expensive illusion
As I've noted several times previously, EconLog's Arnold Kling is among the clearest thinkers in the U.S. on reform of the health care finance system. He has been addressing health care finance issues again this week, first in this podcast...
The essential problem with third party payor health care finance
This outstanding Washington Post article (first in a series of three) on Medicare nails the key problem with reliance on third party payor health care finance systems: In Medicare's upside-down reimbursement system, hospitals and doctors who order unnecessary tests, provide...
The looming fiscal crisis over Medicaid
This Wall Street Journal ($) article is an excellent overview of how subsidizing Medicaid is overwhelming state budgets across the country. The article uses the state of Mississippi as an example, where federal and state funding of the program has...
The developing infrastructure to service HSA's
Health Savings Accounts ("HSA's") are still a new concept in health care finance, but McKinsey & Company partners Paul Mango and Vivian Riefberg write in this Wall Street Journal ($) article that there are promising developments in the insurance infrastructure...
Unleashing the power of markets in health care
Regular readers of this blog know of my skepticism that the costs attributable to America's reliance on third party payors in its health care finance system are commensurate with the benefits of paying for medical service in that fashion. Following...
Hiding the true cost of health care
In his latest WSJ ($) Business World column, Holman Jenkins, Jr. again addresses America's broken health care finance system. Mr. Jenkins is an unusually gifted writer on business issues, and his prior columns in this area (here, here and here)...
Fix the tax code in regard to health care finance
Wall Street Journal Editorial Board member Susan Lee proposes in today's WSJ ($) that the U.S. tax code be overhauled to mitigate the negative effects of the third party payor system that most Americans use to pay for health care:...
Pitney Bowes battles America's broken health care finance system
This Wall Street Journal ($) article provides an excellent analysis of what Pitney Bowes -- the mailing service and equipment company -- learned regarding the question of why health costs keep rising relentlessly in America: A dysfunctional market creates few...
Kerry's health care finance plan
David Wessels over at the Wall Street Journal ($) has this column in yesterday's edition that focuses on John Kerry's health care finance plan. The entire column is well worth reading, and here are a few snippets: But Mr. Kerry...
Radical prescriptions
This Wall Street Journal ($) article reports on innovative techniques that several corporate health care finance departments are undertaking in an attempt to mitigate the adverse effects that the third party payor system has on the consumer's decision regarding health...
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