A meme can be worth more than a thousand worlds. This month, a meme on healthcare point solutions with low utilization that purport to save money.One rule: if you pay $$$ to hire a fancy consulting firm and still can't present the results in a way a 7th g ...
The Alchemy of Health Savings Accounts
Alchemy is for more than quacks. Even Isaac Newton dabbled in it. But it means more than turning lead into goldone definition is to transform something in a mysterious way. Rory Sutherland wrote a great book of the same name on a type of alchemy--how mark ...
True Deductibles
Deductible nounNORTH AMERICAN 1. (in an insurance policy) a specified amount of money that the insured must pay before an insurance company will pay a claimlexico definition. 2. True deductibles include all first-dollars paid by the insuree until insuranc ...
What Healthcare Consumers Want
In many areas, the American consumer is flush with choice and transparency in where and how to spend dollars. Rent or buy. California or Texas. Water, Coke, or Pepsi. Ford or Tesla. Gold health plans, bronze health plans, or alternative health insurance, ...
April’s Healthcare Index
Inspired by the monthly Harper's Index, and after a hiatus in this post category, here is April's index on random and useful stats and figures in healthcare and finance. 10-year annualized return for the S&P 500 Healthcare Sector Index: 13.7%; S ...