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An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
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America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System
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UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings.
David Armstrongpropublica.org
No B.S. Ruthless Management of People and Profits: No Holds Barred, Kick Butt, Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Really Getting Rich
Dan Kennedy • 1 highlight
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield began as nonprofits that insured all comers. But as big profit-seeking insurers targeted younger and healthier people, the Blues were left to insure the older and less healthy, which made it impossible for them to continue. They turned to making money. Now, private equity runs hospitals, into the ground.
Robert Reich • How private equity is destroying the labors of love
- Be cost-conscious. Care is getting wildly expensive. Primary Care 3.0 should use data to recommend the least expensive way to diagnose and treat, and manage over time 95% of general health issues.
Jay Parkinson • Toward a New Definition of Primary Care: Primary care 3.0
Bright, Devoted, and Oscar have all structured their plans to financially align themselves with providers: when providers provide cost-effective care, both parties gain.
Steve Hardgrove • The Disruptors, Part 1: DTC Insurance
