Sep 30, 2021

Let’s just start here: As a general construct, insurance carriers have every incentive for health insurance premiums to go up every year. If you’re an employer, that is a material fact. Is it counterintuitive? Maybe.

Except if you’re an employer and your premiums are going up year after year, it begs the question...

Sep 23, 2021

My overarching thought throughout a lot of this interview was that improving rural health will take everyone remembering to not let perfect be the enemy of the good. If I live in rural America, there’s no subspecialists. Forget about even seeing a garden-variety kind of specialist. I might have to drive hours to even...

Sep 16, 2021

Here’s the cold hard truth: The whole specialty pharmacy operational model is not built to serve patients, a fact that becomes crystal clear when you’re a patient. Instead, the specialty pharmacy model is, rather, pretty blatantly dedicated to the power struggle for revenue and captive patient populations.

It’s...

Sep 9, 2021

I was listening to a panel discussion and heard Brandon Weber use the phrase the “barbarians at the gate” of the healthcare industry. I think I reached out to invite him to come on the podcast before the end of the segment. But at risk of spoiler alerts, let me sum up what I think is so interesting about Brandon’s...

Sep 2, 2021

Here’s a hot take for you. I just learned what a hot take was last week, so, of course, I needed to get me one on the quick. The thing with hot takes, from what I understand, is that they are open for discussion. What I’m talking about today is something I’ve been thinking about for a while, and I would be...