Oct 30, 2025

There is zero correlation between price and quality in hospital care. That is not speculation — it is in the data. The PBGH Transparency Demonstration Project, conducted by the Purchaser Business Group on Health with Milliman and Embold and funded by the Peterson Center on Healthcare, combined price transparency...

Oct 23, 2025

The myth is that we have a functioning marketplace. We don't. We don't have a broken market — it's closer to a nonexistent market. That's Shane Cerone speaking, a former CEO of multiple hospital systems, and it is the central argument of this episode: the pricing crisis in American healthcare isn't being solved...

Oct 16, 2025

One third of adults in this country are delaying or forgoing care due to cost. Financial toxicity is clinical toxicity. And yet the standard assumption in healthcare is that affordable prices and financial sustainability are in fundamental tension with each other. Dan Greenleaf's argument — backed by the operating...

Oct 9, 2025

Hospitals have increased their prices 256% over the last 20 years while physician compensation adjusted for inflation is down 36%. The average American family of four now spends $24,000 a year on healthcare — up from $6,000 in 2000 — while wages have risen far more slowly. Dan Greenleaf's argument is that in this...

Oct 2, 2025

High deductible health plans were supposed to give patients skin in the game. What they actually did was create a class of functionally uninsured Americans — because if your deductible is more than you have in your bank account, your insurance is worthless. And then there's the second layer: self-insured employers...