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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)...

Direct Primary Care was viewed as potentially beneficial for both patients and physicians. For some survey questions, DPC physicians had...

A look at physician incentives in direct and traditional primary care delivery Direct Primary Care and Cash Fee for Service Until now in...

The 46th President of the United States assumed office after serving eight years as vice president to the 44th president and four years...

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...

It is often a challenge to have meaningful discourse on such a charged topic as healthcare. After all, it impacts all of us and...

“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...

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...

How much can we save by using insurance properly? The unaffordability and poor value of health care and health insurance are top concerns...

In the year 2000, the now world-renowned economist, Hernando De Soto published a must-read entitled “The Mystery of Capital – Why...

Respect must be earned, even during a pandemic. The Kaiser Health News article “Public Health Officials Are Our COVID Commanders. Treat...

I recently happened upon a publication entitled, "In Network vs. Out of Network Care - Fair Health Know Your Source Publications." A...

In 2007, Regina Herzlinger sounded the clarion call for healthcare reform with the release of her 3rd best seller, "Who Killed Health...

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...

What can academia learn from the actuarial profession about promoting critical thinking? What other mechanisms are available to improve...

Our aim is to ultimately make the health care system better by challenging status quo thinking, exploring the evidence, and engaging in...

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...