In the U.S. insurance industry, health insurers are known to hold onto large amounts of cash reserve as a surplus. Regulators often scrutinize these reserves, demanding to know why the...
When making important business decisions it is critical to evaluate them in economic terms, oftentimes boiled down to supply and demand. According to www.investopia.com[1], demand...
For the better part of the last few years, terms in the healthcare space like “Medicare for All”, “preexisting conditions”, and “if you like your doctor you can keep them” have been...
Economics students are baptized in the basics of supply and demand the moment they step into their first classroom. The free market involves buyers and sellers who participate in a bilateral...
A quick internet search will produce dozens of articles talking about the shortage of healthcare providers. One report presents 15 key concerns about physician shortages[1] ranging...
Sometimes the hardest business questions have the simplest of answers. This is also true for the many nagging questions we encounter in healthcare. Too often the decision making process...
My grandkids periodically ask me about my work. They understand that I am a heath care consultant and have worked in the health care world for my entire career. They have overheard many...
Introduction Some of the confusion about the US health care system is directly tied to prices. How [...]
In many of our recent client situations we encounter a surprising lack of awareness and concern about the [...]
