Fear of COVID-19 may be keeping some patients away from hospitals; fear of financial shock can deter others.
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Getting Patients Back To Hospitals
Tag Archives: Health Insurance
Medical Price Transparency
Malarkey alert: Providers and insurers object to rules demanding more price transparency, saying they would hurt consumers.
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No Insurance Against Medical Debt
Mounting premiums and higher deductibles are pushing many people deeply into medical debt, even when they have insurance.
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Hospital Hypochondria
Hospitals say price transparency will boost their income – and they beg us not to force such prosperity upon them.
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Can You Count On Short-Term Health Insurance?
A short-term policy may let you pay less for health insurance, but you’ll get what you pay for.
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A Faith-Based Insurance Substitute Inspires Little Faith
Rising premiums are driving some customers to “health care sharing ministries” that have drawbacks of their own.
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Selling Insurance People Want To Buy
Trump’s Obamacare actions neither repeal nor replace, but they are good news anyway. A president alone can only do so much.
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Obamacare’s Stay Of Execution
Obamacare is a dead law walking, doomed by its own flaws despite Republicans’ failure thus far to repeal or replace it.
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Iowa Confronts Obamacare’s Reality
Facing collapse of Obamacare’s exchanges across much of the state, Iowa seeks permission to administer realistic reforms.
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Some Hospital Price Transparency
Hospitals must now post real-world prices for “shoppable services,” with more transparency yet to come.
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