So How Would You Fix Health Care Grandpa?
My grandkids periodically ask me about my work. They understand that I am a heath care consultant and [...]
Risk-Based Capital Considerations for Self-Funded Plans
Two of the main reasons why businesses choose to self-fund their employee health care benefits are (1) to have [...]
Streamline Your Healthcare Analytics by Embedding Benchmarking
Too often meaningless and unnecessarily complex healthcare analysis is prepared and presented to leadership without explaining what it means [...]
ACA Premium Changes: We Need a New Measuring Stick
Guilty!!! I wrote the lead article in the February edition of the Society of Actuaries Social Insurance and Public [...]
Health Care Affordability Index: 2019
Overview The American health care industry is a leviathan. Health care has swelled to [...]
A Beginner’s Guide to Model Validation
Models inform business decisions by using a variety of techniques to explain relationships among variables, entities, or events. In [...]
Take A Number: Would Long Wait Times In US Healthcare Be Acceptable?
With all the talk of Medicare For All in the media, I started to think about American healthcare culture [...]
Talkin’ Bout a Revolution
My father is an immigrant who fled the Civil War in El Salvador during the 1980s and my mother [...]
RBC in an ACA World: Determining an Optimal Surplus Range
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) brought new risks and volatility to the world of health insurance. [...]
Fields of Gold: Reaping a Harvest from the ACA
Took my family away from my Carolina home Had dreams about the West and started to roam Six long [...]