A small news item from the Seattle public radio station, KUOW, provides our latest example of the contrasts between how hired executives and...
Showing posts with label health insurance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health insurance. Show all posts
The Market Made Us Do It: Increasing Low Level Employees' Health Plan Deductible While Paying Executives Millions
A small news item from the Seattle public radio station, KUOW, provides our latest example of the contrasts between how hired executives and...
Another Revolving Door Variant: From Academia with Millions in Medtronic Royalties, to the White House, to the Health Care Service Corp
The revolving door spins, and where it will stop, nobody knows... In October, 2010, we noted questions about how Dr Stephen Ondra got to be ...
Where is the risk?
That’s the question Thomas Cox, an RN with insurance experience and expertise, says should be asked about any health care financing mechanis...
Fool Us Once, Shame on You, Fool Us Twice, Shame on Us - The Untrustworthy Pronouncements of Aetna's Former CEOs
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 ...
Health Care (Insurance) Reform Upheld, but Concentration and Abuse of Power Remain Largely Unaddressed
This may seem like sour grapes, but... Numerous media reports say that the US Supreme Court has upheld the massive US health care "ref...
Huge Insurance Company WellPoint Settles Once Again, Providing a Window On the Ethical Questions Its Birth Presented
Another month, another question about the ethical conduct of for-profit insurance giant WellPoint. WellPoint Settles Allegations its Predec...
A Camel Through the Eye of a Needle - at Non-Profit Health Insurers
It is time to drag out that well-worn phrase,... sometimes you just cannot make this stuff up. Recently, the New York Post reported about...
RUCing About - Conflicts of Interest Affecting the Members of the RBRVS Update Committee
Since 2007, we have been writing about the secretive RUC (RBRVS Update Committee), the private AMA committee that somehow has managed to ge...
Logical Fallacies in Support of Payments for Board Members of Non-Profit Health Insurers
The kerfuffle over the huge golden parachute given the departing CEO of an ostensibly non-profit Massachusetts health insurer/ managed care ...
Wendell Potter on "Insurers’ Cynical Calculations on the Cost of Doing Business"
On his blog , Wendell Potter, former head of public relations for CIGNA, discussed big health insurance/ managed care organizations' att...
How Large Health Care Organizations Set the "Rules of the Game" to Dominate Health Care
The notion that health care is increasingly "dominated by large, bureaucratic organizations which do not honor ... [its] core values...
"Government-Run Health Insurance" Run by Corporations? - Two Medicaid Examples
In the US, there seems to have been a constant argument between right- and left-wingers over "government-run" health insurance. T...
