The Math of Healthcare Reform By Alan Katz The American Health Care Act fails to address what should be a critical goal of any reform: making healthcare affordable.
Healthcare: Asking the Wrong Question By Joe Flower We argue about who pays: the government, your employer, you? The answer redistributes the pain--but doesn't reduce it.
What Trump Wants to Do on ACA By Alan Katz What Republicans are putting forward may bear only a passing resemblance to the reform we get at the end of a long, messy slog.
Noncompliance: a $290 Billion Problem By William Zachry Why won't patients take their meds? It's an enormous problem, and the solution--still being sorted out--is exceptionally complicated.
Proof of Value for Medical Management By Karen Wolfe In workers' comp, predictive analytics based on your historical data can measure what costs would have been without your interventions.
Medicare Set Asides: 10 Mistakes to Avoid By Marques Torbert Porter Leslie Reporting is complex, and, if the injured party fails to report properly, he runs the risk of having benefits denied.
Who’s Going to Pay for the Opioid Crisis? By Joseph Paduda You and I and other taxpayers are going to foot the bill, as will employers. But I have a modest proposal. Let's make the pill-pushers pay.
Letter to Congress on Replacing ACA By John Doak Oklahoma's insurance commissioner specifies changes that he believes must be made during the "repeal and replacement" of the ACA.
Lemonade's 'Synthetic Agent' Nonsense By Matteo Carbone Desperate for growth, Lemonade produces another howler: A lender receiving a 16% interest rate is presented as a (synthetic) agent.
Auto Insurance in an Existential Crisis By Stephen Applebaum Alan Demers The 125-year-old, $300 billion U.S. auto insurance industry is caught between runaway inflation and strained consumer wallets.
The Promise of Continuous Underwriting By Bill Deemer Bobby Touran Typically, a risk is underwritten, bound... and forgotten. But new streams of data and automation allow for continuous underwriting.
Convergence and the Insurance Ecosystem By Stephen Applebaum Alan Demers Companies must anticipate the future, innovate beyond their core and transform their capabilities as rapidly as technology allows.