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The Hidden Cash-Flow Crisis Inside American Healthcare

Cedar’s Florian Otto unpacks why healthcare’s outdated payment infrastructure is increasingly colliding with modern consumer expectations around transparency, predictability and fi...

The Long and Winding Road: 75 Years of Competition in Health Care Policy

When health economics emerged as a distinct discipline in the late 1960s, mainstream academic and policy paradigms widely presumed that competitive market mechanisms were structura...

Why The U.S. Healthcare System Is So Hard To Disrupt, And How To Do It

The U.S. healthcare system is hard to disrupt, not because it is irrational, but because it is the rational outcome of many overlapping decisions, incentives, and fears.

Health care investing needs a doctor in the room

A conference table. Six to ten people around it. A health care startup is being evaluated for a multimillion-dollar investment. The people in the room are smart, with MBAs from top...

The corporatization of medicine, in salaries and beds

In the 1970s, the American hospital was, in the industry’s own language, an “open workshop.” A physician kept an office down the street, admitted patients to the hospital when they...

Your Health Care Spend is a Hidden Revenue Opportunity

Employee benefits are now the second biggest line item for a business behind only salary and wages but there are ways to decrease your spending.

What Happens When Insurance Companies Become More Powerful Than Medicine?

By MATTHEW ZACHARY The American healthcare system behaves exactly as its incentives tell it to behave. That sentence sounds almost boring until you follow it to its logical conclus...

Rising healthcare costs are straining Texas businesses as the Legislature seeks solutions

Lawmakers and experts pin the blame for rising insurance costs on health companies consolidating and creating less competition.

America’s employer-based health insurance system is crumbling: STAT News

Bob Herman, STAT News business of health care reporter, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the changing face of health insurance, why the employer-based … Source

Time to redefine healthcare “quality”

“Quality” is hard to define, but it’s always personal. In purchasing decisions large and small, consumers constantly weigh cost and value, and make trade-offs based on their indivi...

Profit motive in medicine: lessons from private detention

Who staffs the immigration detention centers, the temporary holding camps, the privately run facilities where thousands of frightened people are waiting behind fences and concrete...

Rising healthcare costs are straining Texas businesses as the Legislature seeks solutions

by Paul Cobler, The Texas TribuneJuly 6, 2026 The expenses to operate three restaurants in Waco are rising across the board, but there’s one growing cost in particular that feels n...

The Headache of Hospital Pricing

Some of the most persistent problems in American healthcare can be traced to structural features that conceal economic realities from patients, providers, and policymakers. The tax...

How AI & CMS are Solving the $4 Trillion Healthcare Crisis

The message to the industry is clear: If your business model is optimized only for FFS, you are the legacy. The future of healthcare belongs to those who can trade hours spent for...

Health Care Rulemakings to Watch in the Trump Administration's Unified Agenda

Why One in Four Americans Is Walking Away from Healthcare

The healthcare affordability crisis in the U.S. has quietly become a trust crisis, with a growing share of Americans walking away from care altogether. Industry leaders say the fix...

Private equity ownership tilted healthcare towards shareholder returns

Investors expect relatively quick financial returns, and that changes institutional priorities

Here’s Why Your Hospital Bills Are So Big — And Why Congress Doesn’t Care

If the right and left agree on reining in hospitals’ abusive tactics, then why hasn’t Congress acted?

Patients Face a Thicket of Red Tape Trying To Maintain Consistent Health Coverage

Many Americans are shopping around for affordable options as the cost of health insurance soars. But some who hope to keep the same doctors and medications face a thicket of red ta...

Schrodinger’s Co-pay

By MATTHEW HOLT More tales of the woes of dealing with health insurance. I live in Marin County, California and one of the things that comes with that is a diagnosis ofContinue rea...

Integrity's Stride deal takes a Medicare Advantage distributor into gig worker health enrollment

A different demographic, a different regulatory environment and a materially different distribution model from the book Integrity has built

What HCPs across the country are saying about policy and research and why your voice matters

Health care professionals are constantly navigating changes in policy, clinical evidence and practice expectations all while delivering patient care. Over ... Read more

How Medicare and Medicaid Rely on Private Health Insurance

For a majority of Medicare and Medicaid recipients, the government program is paying a private health insurance company to provide the service from a private firm. In the Spring 20...