healthcare
Obama Speaks: A Presidential Assessment of Obamacare
written by David W. Johnson on July 19, 2016
Earlier this month, President Obama took the unprecedented step of authoring an academic research article in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) to document the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) accomplishments and suggest improvements.
Market vs Medicine: America’s Epic Fight for Better, Affordable Healthcare
written by David W. Johnson on June 16, 2016
Market vs. Medicine goes beyond diagnosis to consider how sustaining and disruptive innovation will make U.S. healthcare better at diagnosing and treating illness while developing care management capabilities that promote prevention, behavioral health and chronic disease management. In the epic battle underway, market-driven reform, more than regulatory change, will transform and improve America’s broken healthcare system.
When Healthcare is a “Lemon”: Asymmetric Information and Market Failure
written by David W. Johnson on March 27, 2015
In this article, David explains how asymmetric information exchange between providers and patients contributes to medical errors, customer frustration, over and under-treatment in U.S. healthcare industry.
ACA Limiting Payroll Job Gains, Raising Employees’ Costs
written by Michael Lewis on August 22, 2014
FMI’s commentary on the mostly negative impacts of the Affordable Care Act on employer-sponsored insurance plans.
