We have another new one added today in the form of Wal-Mart Senior VP Leslie Dach to be Burwell’s senior counselor to help manage the health insurance exchanges. As I have said before I think HHS and CMS has nowhere else to turn with the lack of building the…
Continue ReadingIt just doesn’t stop with “The Grays” which is what I call the syndrome of those who confuse virtual world values with the real world. This has been building and building for a long time and now it’s gone to being ridiculous. We had the scorning tone of the…
This is unbelievable if I am reading this correctly as I had assumed that all insurers who licensed the data bases and software from United had agreed to switch to to the new “Fair” data base, but it looks like Horizon Blue Cross/Blue Shield was still using i…
Of course this will be appealed and you know who’s behind this, it’s the lobbyists for insurance companies as they know how to play the game from every angle as they have very sophisticated math quants they hire to model all of this. It’s been going on for y…
Not too long ago CMS said such plans should remain flat as far as price increases and once again they were wrong. CMS needs some new models and obviously Burwell is just in a guessing game as she’s not any better than Sebelius in essence and I have not seen …
We are seeing this in other industries too but nowhere is it more visible than with health insurance. It’s been said many times over on the web that insurance companies profit on complexities and if you look at the past year that seems to hold very true. Ma…
I’ve been watching this for years with the way healthcare is changing in the US today and we certainly need and do use constructive and good measurements in what the industry does, but just like in the financial world, we’re starting to cross some borders her…