Content tagged with "health-care"

Content tagged with "health-care"

The Battle for Health Care Cost Savings
Blog Post
November 22, 2010
492

“I’ve been following this case for about a month now. It’s a good demonstration of how cutting health case costs is going to be harder than it seems. Case against Blue Cross shows difficulty of cutting…”

The Conservative Case for Drug Price Controls?
Blog Post
January 24, 2016
323

“Reading a book called Rise of the Robots about the increasing role of automation in our lives. The author takes a bit of a detour in the chapter on health care to discuss how the markets are broken….”

Fixing the System
Personal Blog
Blog Post
January 28, 2011
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“Here’s an amazingly interesting article about the possible future of health care. This is an actual, practical manifestation of the ‘let’s make health care more efficient’ pipe dream. Lower Costs and…”

How Companies Can Encourage Employee Health
Personal Blog
Blog Post
June 20, 2009
490

“How Safeway Is Cutting Health-Care Costs: Here’s an interesting article about what the supermarket chain Safeway is doing about health care costs. First, they start with an important point: the only…”

My Appendectomy
Personal Blog
Blog Post
August 1, 2009
1170

“I had lunch yesterday about noon. Somewhere around 2 p.m., I started to get intense abdominal pain – it was a burning/pressure-type pain high in my abdomen, just under my sternum. Eight hours later, I…”

Why Health Care is So Expensive
Personal Blog
Blog Post
June 7, 2009
855

“This is brutal article, which, if accurate, is a damning indictment of the business of medicine. The Cost Conundrum The writer went to McAllen, Texas, which has the highest cost of medical spending in…”