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NEJM’s Fundamentals of U.S. Health Policy, Part 1: What Is Health

WEBThe New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world, and it has a new series of articles I find particularly …

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Does Supply and Demand Work in Healthcare

WEBSupply and demand carry with them a few assumptions. When those assumptions are met, supply and demand works. When those assumptions are violated, …

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The Three Different Ways We Could Set Prices in Healthcare

WEBOut of the three general ways we could set prices in our healthcare system, one is best. Too bad we’re using the other two. Administrative pricing: This one is very …

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Building a Healthcare System from Scratch, Part 5: Getting Market …

WEBImage credit: bettergov.org. We established in prior parts of this series that, in this Healthcare Incentives Framework, there are specific identifiable jobs we want a …

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Sneaky Hospital Tactics to Force Higher Prices

WEBImage credit: Rich Pedroncelli/Associated Press There was a recent 60 Minutes episode with a segment that talked about why healthcare prices are so high, …

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About Me and This Blog – Clear Thinking on Healthcare

WEBWelcome! I am Taylor J. Christensen, M.D., and this blog is my brain on health policy. Let me tell you how I discovered this topic. Way back as a pre-med, I read Atul Gawande’s …

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Healthcare Experts Often Support Good Healthcare Reforms for …

WEBImage credit: Bill Watterson This week's post is a little later than usual, but next week will be back on track with a Tuesday post about Hayek's book about …

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Building a Healthcare System from Scratch, Part 2: Parties

WEBIn Part 1, I began explaining the Healthcare Incentives Framework by enumerating the five jobs of a healthcare system: Treatment Cost-effective prevention …

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The Impact of Single Payer on Healthcare Spending

WEBOne of the main reasons people are pushing for a single-payer system in the U.S. (termed "Medicare for All" these days) is to achieve universal access to insurance …

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Building a Healthcare System from Scratch, Part 6: Barriers to …

WEBImage credit: changingpaces.com. In Part 5, we talked about the three requirements for getting market share to flow to the highest-value options, which is …

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The True Usefulness of Cost Sharing Is Misunderstood

WEBPhoto by Karolina Grabowska on Pexels.com “Cost sharing” refers to people paying money out of their own pocket to receive healthcare services. There are …

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Why Leadership Is More Important in Healthcare than in Other …

WEBIn a lecture I heard by Rulon Stacey, American College of Healthcare Executives chairman, he said that health systems are the most complex organizations …

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The Non-financial Reasons for Unwarranted Regional Variations in …

WEBfdds Ever since the start of residency, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has been delivered to my mailbox without me ever subscribing to it. …

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Why Aren’t Prices Transparent in Healthcare

WEBThe answer actually is quite simple. And why nobody is explaining this clearly, despite all the talk about price transparency in healthcare these days, is a …

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A Real Life Example of Irrational Healthcare Spending

WEBA Real Life Example of Irrational Healthcare Spending. This week at work, I had a patient in the hospital who had been through a pretty challenging illness, and he …

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The Issue of Healthcare CEO Salaries – Clear Thinking on Healthcare

WEBImage credit: pnhp.org. When I was an undergrad studying business strategy, people would ask me what business strategy is. I would tell them that someone who …

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What Is Socialism

WEBWell, if your definition of a socialist is someone who will push our government toward more centralized economic decision making (via a mixture of …

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Fee for Service Versus Alternative Payment Models

WEBI was reading an interesting article on The Health Care Blog this week, How to Pandemic-Proof Our Health Care Payment System, by Aisha Pittman and Seth …

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Socialism Leads to Totalitarianism

WEBThe book was written during WWII and published in 1944. At that time, he was living in the U.K., and he was seeing a movement there toward central planning, so …

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