Category: Policy

Burda on Healthcare: No, It’s Your Turn to Throw Me Under the Healthcare Bus

Everyone knows what’s wrong with healthcare. Well-honed business practices by incumbent industry sectors and organizations make care less… Read More

By David Burda July 18, 2023

Policy

Podcast: Can We Regulate Ourselves Out of the Medical Debt Crisis? 7/13/23

The latest approach from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) targets junk health plans, No… Read More

By David Burda July 13, 2023

Policy

Sticks, Not Carrots, Get Hospitals’ Attention

I briefly worked with a person whose standing management dictum was that he was always right unless he… Read More

By David Burda July 12, 2023

Code Red (Part 2): Improving Healthcare Requires Trade-Offs, Not Solutions

This is Part 2 of “Code Red,” which outlines common-sense reforms to align service delivery with consumer needs…. Read More

By Michael D. Connelly July 11, 2023

Policy

The Real Reason Hospitals Hate Physician-Owned Hospitals

The answer is, they’re cheaper. You can stop reading now if you want. But if you don’t and… Read More

By David Burda July 5, 2023

Economics

Podcast: How Healthcare Revolutionaries Think with Demi Radeva

Podcast: Demi Radeva on Why Up-and-Coming Healthcare Entrepreneurs Should Never Reveal Their Ages Demi Radeva is quite accomplished… Read More

By David Burda June 27, 2023

Policy

4sight Friday | Pull Payment Complexity Up by the Roots | A Priority Problem for Healthcare | A Trillion Here, a Trillion There

Read the 6/23/2023 Edition here. Curated by David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor and columnist. Columns here. Find 4sight… Read More

By David Burda June 23, 2023

Economics

Healthcare Needs To Get Its Priorities Straight

You need to get your priorities straight. I’ll admit to receiving that admonition at various points in my… Read More

By David Burda June 21, 2023

It’s the Payment Model, Stupid (2-Part Series)

This is a two-part series on Maryland’s unique approach to a healthcare payment model and how those ideas… Read More

By David W. Johnson June 20, 2023

Policy