Category: Price Tansparency
Under-Appreciated Benefits of Markets
By Robert Nelson, MD Honest price-transparent markets allow value propositions to surface and to be discovered. Contrary to the outcries of many academics, intellectuals and utopian collectivist, free markets don’t create wide-spread abuses or anarchy in peaceful law-abiding Societies. The …
The Triumvirate of Healthcare Spending
by Robert Nelson, MD 1. Price distortion 2. Price Insulation 3. Price Confusion Shared via PowerPoint on Android.
Understanding Healthcare Economics: The Devil (and the truth) is in the Details | LinkedIn
by Robert Nelson, MD Access to healthcare is often defined by how much of another person’s money is used to subsidize it; rather than focusing on the real price or ways to be more efficient! Source: Understanding Healthcare Economics: …
The Change We Seek We Must Create
The reach and effectiveness of healthcare innovation and change is ultimately staked to how we pay for healthcare in aggregate. Building economic paradigms with more attractive price-value relationships will be the conduit through which change will emerge. 1.Employer education & …
Same Transparent Price to Any Willing Buyer
By Robert Nelson, MD Within many of the posts regarding the challenges facing healthcare, someone – usually out of frustration – will inevitably pose the following: “So what is the solution?” Well, the answers won’t be found in repeating partisan …
Replacing Myths with Markets
Hardly a week goes by that we don’t hear a defense from the status quo about how different healthcare is from any other services or commodities. The dogma, based on economic fallacies, is pervasive. We’re asked to believe that advanced …
Save Us From The Health Care Reformers: They’re The Problem, Not The Solution
Dr. Goodman’s article is a fantastic foray into the dark history organized medicine, culminating with a brutally honest assessment of the cartel that resulted. He gives a great preview of the good stuff in Greg Scandlen’s new book, Myth Busters: Why Health …
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