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Showing posts with label health insurance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health insurance. Show all posts
Thursday, April 16, 2020

The ACP Leadership Stands Up to Health Care Dysfunction: A Good Beginning, but the Problems May be Even Bigger than They Realize

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Introduction: Health Care Dysfunction Has Been With Us for a Long Time The American College of Physicians (ACP) is the largest physician ...
Thursday, August 25, 2016

Haunted by US Healthcare Inc - $27.9 Million/Year Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullback in Apparent Retaliation for Government Anti-Trust Litigation

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We do not write about health insurance and managed care as much as we used to.  Dysfunction in this area now gets much media attention....
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Monday, October 07, 2013

Marketing Bad Health Care Decisions as a New Form of Stealth Health Policy Advocacy

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A remarkable set of video advertisements appeared a few weeks ago that seem designed to frighten people into making bad health care decision...
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Thursday, March 28, 2013

The Market Made Us Do It: Increasing Low Level Employees' Health Plan Deductible While Paying Executives Millions

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A small news item from the Seattle public radio station, KUOW, provides our latest example of the contrasts between how hired executives and...
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Another Revolving Door Variant: From Academia with Millions in Medtronic Royalties, to the White House, to the Health Care Service Corp

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The revolving door spins, and where it will stop, nobody knows... In October, 2010, we noted questions about how Dr Stephen Ondra got to b...
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Saturday, July 28, 2012

Where is the risk?

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That’s the question Thomas Cox, an RN with insurance experience and expertise, says should be asked about any health care financing mechanis...
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Monday, July 02, 2012

Fool Us Once, Shame on You, Fool Us Twice, Shame on Us - The Untrustworthy Pronouncements of Aetna's Former CEOs

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A small tempest in the larger US health care reform teapot was produced a few weeks ago when Ron Williams, former CEO of Aetna, declared in ...
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Thursday, June 28, 2012

Health Care (Insurance) Reform Upheld, but Concentration and Abuse of Power Remain Largely Unaddressed

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This may seem like sour grapes, but...  Numerous media reports say that the US Supreme Court has upheld the massive US health care "ref...
Monday, June 25, 2012

Huge Insurance Company WellPoint Settles Once Again, Providing a Window On the Ethical Questions Its Birth Presented

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Another month, another question about the ethical conduct of for-profit insurance giant WellPoint.  WellPoint Settles Allegations its Pred...
Saturday, February 18, 2012

A Camel Through the Eye of a Needle - at Non-Profit Health Insurers

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It is time to drag out that well-worn phrase,...  sometimes you just cannot make this stuff up.  Recently, the New York Post reported abo...
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