Private Health Insurer’s House of Cards

There is a reason we are the only advanced nation in the world with employer-based health insurance. It is the result from a defensive move by GM in the late 40’s, intended to prevent the Toledo-based union from expanding its hold on GM workers by creating health benefits.1 Within ten years, 70% of all big […]

Small Group Coverage: A Report from the Trenches

Small business is drowning in the current health care market. John Sinibaldi, a well-respected health insurance agent in St. Petersburg, FL , has become prominent in Florida’s broker community because he not only counsels and services a large book of small business clients, but because he also studiously tracks the macro trends that impact coverage for […]

Can Health Plans Explain Why They Aren’t Re-Empowering Primary Care?

The health care crisis can be traced in part to the marginalization of primary care

Homelessness and Healthlessness

Connected at the hipAs the saying goes, one thing leads to another. One of the measurables that has been publicized over the years to help stimulate action in health system reform is the number of uninsured in America. But as the economic downturn expands, and people lose their jobs and their homes, the number of underinsured […]

The State of Employer-Sponsored Coverage

Only half of workers have health coverage through their employers. Is this model feasible into the future?A detailed new study from the Economics Policy Institute confirms what many of us suspect but haven’t had the data to easily nail down. This weightily-titled report by Jared Bernstein and Heidi Shierholz – A Decade of Decline: The […]

Practical Advice to Employers On Managing A Health Plan

My friend Lynn Jennings suggests ways for employers to get the most out of their health plans On blogs like this, people like me write analytically about issues which are often, at best, conceptual to us. Not so to the guys in the rough and tumble world of health care finance. I remember that the […]

Taxes, Health Care and S-CHIP Funding

How much does it cost to run a society? By Mike Magee If you were following the news this fall, you saw an intense battle over future of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, or S-CHIP for short. At the center of the debate was whether to continue and possibly expand this program — which […]

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