Cancer Drugs and Price Controls: Is it Time?
By Joyce Kurisko, MBA, Tim Bartholow, MD and Scott Litow, ASA As originally published in the ASCO Post December 10, 2022 According to a...
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Gayle Brekke
- Dec 13, 2021
- 7 min
Crisis of Empowerment
My recent re-reading of Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions in a Top-Down World by Charles Koch (which I highly recommend, by the way)...
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Gayle Brekke
- Aug 27, 2021
- 3 min
Physician Views of DPC - Results of a Survey
Direct Primary Care was viewed as potentially beneficial for both patients and physicians. For some survey questions, DPC physicians had...
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- Mar 14, 2021
- 8 min
Paying for Primary Care - Part 4
A look at physician incentives in direct and traditional primary care delivery Direct Primary Care and Cash Fee for Service Until now in...
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gregfann0
- Feb 28, 2021
- 27 min
Actuarial Clarity for Building on the ACA: Let’s 86 the 8.5% Myth and Other False Narratives
The 46th President of the United States assumed office after serving eight years as vice president to the 44th president and four years...
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- Feb 11, 2021
- 5 min
Paying for Primary Care - Part 3
We examine behavior changes associated with the use of insurance and how they drive health care spending even higher. In parts 1 and 2 of...
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- Jan 6, 2021
- 8 min
2021 and Beyond: Consideration for Meaningful Change in Healthcare
It is often a challenge to have meaningful discourse on such a charged topic as healthcare. After all, it impacts all of us and...
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gregfann0
- Dec 28, 2020
- 17 min
The Tetradic Trumpcare Tally
“I think it’s probably the thing that I’m most disappointed…that I haven’t been able to say what a good job we’ve done. I haven’t been...
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- Dec 9, 2020
- 6 min
Paying for Primary Care - Part 2
How much more does insurance cost when it covers primary care? We saw in Part 1 of Paying for Primary Care that using insurance to pay...
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- Dec 2, 2020
- 6 min
Paying for Primary Care - Part 1
How much can we save by using insurance properly? The unaffordability and poor value of health care and health insurance are top concerns...
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- Oct 24, 2020
- 9 min
Bureaucracy
In the year 2000, the now world-renowned economist, Hernando De Soto published a must-read entitled “The Mystery of Capital – Why...
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- Sep 21, 2020
- 3 min
Hey Public Health Officials - Here's Why the Public Doesn't Respect You
Respect must be earned, even during a pandemic. The Kaiser Health News article “Public Health Officials Are Our COVID Commanders. Treat...
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- Sep 2, 2020
- 3 min
The Big Lie: Out-of-Network Benefits
I recently happened upon a publication entitled, "In Network vs. Out of Network Care - Fair Health Know Your Source Publications." A...
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- Aug 18, 2020
- 4 min
Why “Market - Driven” Needs to Be Brought Back into The Conversation
In 2007, Regina Herzlinger sounded the clarion call for healthcare reform with the release of her 3rd best seller, "Who Killed Health...
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- Aug 2, 2020
- 3 min
Why Challenge Status Quo Thinking?
We must be willing to examine the fundamentals of health care in the US. Status quo thinking accepts “the way things are” as the way...
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- Jul 23, 2020
- 7 min
Health Services Research and Critical Thinking
What can academia learn from the actuarial profession about promoting critical thinking? What other mechanisms are available to improve...
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- May 9, 2020
- 5 min
Welcome to Descant
Our aim is to ultimately make the health care system better by challenging status quo thinking, exploring the evidence, and engaging in...
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- May 9, 2020
- 3 min
Direct Primary Care: Good for What Ails ME!
What this model is trying to do, and the amazing doctors who are doing it, are inspirational. They give me hope that health care can be...
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