How to Stop the Bouncing Between Insurance Plans Under ObamacareBy Dhruv KhullarThe New York Times, March 23, 2016Millions of Americans are finding Obamacare to be

Our fragmented, dysfunctional financing infrastructure is so highly flawed that patches to it will have very little impact in moving us closer to the ideal

Secret deals may mean consumers pay more for drugsBy Jayne O'DonnellUSA TODAY, March 21, 2016Secret deals often prompt drug benefit companies to cover brand-name prescriptions

Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are yet one more example of how effective our policymakers have been in taking care of the medical industrial complex while

Don’t Let The Talking Points Fool You: It’s All About The Risk PoolBy Linda Blumberg and John HolahanHealth Affairs Blog, March 15, 2016Risk pooling is

Risk pooling is the most fundamental concept in health care financing. Funds are paid into a common pool to cover the health care needs of

California Insurance Marketplace Wants To Kick Out Poor-Performing HospitalsBy Chad TerhuneCalifornia Healthline, March 18, 2016California’s insurance exchange is threatening to cut hospitals from its networks

California has been an “active purchaser” of health plans for its ACA exchange - Covered California. To help keep insurance premiums down, it has contracted

Clinton's Health Plan Gets Mostly Passing Grades From Policy ExpertsBy Joyce FriedenMedPage Today, March 15, 2016Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's ideas for improving the Affordable

Not a very exciting article. And that’s the point. When you read Hillary Clinton’s proposals, they all fall under the category of mere tweaks to

“There Is Regulatory Capture, But It Is By No Means Complete”Interview of Kenneth J. ArrowPro-Market: the blog of the Stigler Center at the University of

Nobody understands markets and health care better than Nobel laureate Kenneth Arrow who wrote the classic treatise on the topic over half a century ago.