HMOs

American Healthcare was a finalist for the NIHCM Digital Media award in 2015. The blog ran from 2013- 2019, with syndication to Tincture, KevinMD and The Health Care Blog. This is an archive of the blog posts: images and formatting are unfortunately lost. Since these posts are pretty old, some of my thoughts have evolved, and some data is no longer accurate...

Nov 21, 2014

Empowering Patients to be Better Insurance Shoppers: Should We Offer "Name Your Price" Health Insurance?

Anyone who watches a lot of TV has likely seen Flo, the energetic Progressive Insurance spokeswoman. Flo spends a lot of time...

Aug 15, 2014

HMOs Are Back on the Table. And “Cheap” Isn’t Good Enough This Time Around.

If you’re a fan of 1990’s movies, you will likely remember a scene in the Academy Award winning film, As Good as It Gets . The Washington...

Jun 15, 2014

Squeeze the Consumer or Squeeze the Prescriber? Conflicting Ideologies and the Rise of High Deductible Health Plans

If you were designing a program to lower healthcare costs, would you direct your efforts at the medical consumer, or the medical...

PHYSICIAN, EXECUTIVE, WRITER, ADVISOR